(November 25, 2015 at 2:59 pm)Drich Wrote:(November 25, 2015 at 11:31 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote: Could you describe an instance of you receiving a portion of the holy spirit please? Genuinely interested.
The above mentioned "rope a dope" is an example of a gift of the Spirit. In that I am given to understand principles/answer questions about God/the church and even the time period/what is recorded in secular history, and insights to Hebrew/koine greek before I have actually looked it up or have any prior understanding of the subject..
I'm given an answer almost before I can finish reading the question. Then I look up my answer and pair it with the correct source material that proves what I was given was indeed factual/correct.
A real good example of this was the fact that someone pointed out that some great anti-theist/bible expert for you guys said that the Paul of Acts did not behave or teach the same things that Paul who wrote Romans did. then the 'expert' cites Acts 17 and Romans 1. In acts 17 the point was made that Paul here says all sins/idol worship of the pagan were over looked, while in romans 1 the sins of the idol worshiping pagan were not...
I honestly never heard or read this expert before I never heard the claim that the Paul the book of Acts describes is completely different than the Paul of the book of Romans, nor have I ever seen Acts 17 and any teaching out of the book of Romans used that way before...
About me: It may supprise many of you, but I do not consider myself a very good student of theology. I don't have ANY verses memorized. I have vague ideas about what each book of the bible are about, some are accurate some are not. So when someone tells me the book of acts says X I have to look it up. I have to look up everything. Not to mention I do not read any works outside of the bible. I do not know the teachings of any theologians at all nor anti-theologians (don't know really what to call them.) The only exposure I get is what I hear on the radio (if I can stand to listen to them) or what you guys post here.
So appearently I was told the guy/expert who made the claim that the paul of romans and the paul of acts were not the same person because they did not teach the same thing, was a real thorn in the side of many theist. I also looked up that many 'theist' have no credible answer for his charges. Even so I thought what was quoted by this guys was the dumbest thing I ever heard. Why? because I could see what I thought was an obvious link that tied the teaching of Romans 1 and Acts 17 together, but he was intentionally hiding this link. which to me made him a basless clown and appearently because I saw him as a clown, I did not show the proper 'respect' for this guy and his work. because a couple of you came unglued when my simple observation shot down this guys life work. then I has to explain my (not so) 'simple explaination 2 or 3 different ways 2 or 3 times aday for a week till it finally sunk in. (That Paul was talking about in Acts 17 was about a pre Christ act of grace to a people who knew nothing of God, verses a Post Christ call for accountability and faith from those who heard of Christ. then Paul further subdivides the sin of this act from the evil of the very same act.
In order to make this distinction I was 'given' knowledge of the greek before I looked it up, I knew the words being translated to the same word in the English was not the same word/different meaning in the greek. I just did not know what words were being used. so I looked everything up and posted the results. Which framed the two passages so they would compliment each other rather than contradict. which completely underminded what the 'expert' claimed.
Again one very small example that playout over the course of a week and was test a few dozen different times and different ways, without my explanation loosing it's integrity.
My knowledge of Hell is another good example. I have a hell thread here were I posted my experience of the place, and all of it at the time was contary to everything I ever thought about Hell. But over the years I've studied it in detail and it turns out that everything I 'witnessed' in my dream was biblically accurate. My experience was 180* oppsite of what I understood Hell to be, and before that moment I'd never heard or witnessed anything that said Hell was NOT the picture of dante' inferno I had in my mind. Yet, looking back I was given a picture of Hell that the bible describes before I knew anything of the bible or God.
I have 20+ years of stuff like this. being privy to knowledge well beyond my scope. Which again, is not because I am special. I simply took God up on His offer, and was faithful to what I was given through thick and thin. The same offer He has offered all of us.
So, do you now understand Greek?
