(December 23, 2015 at 6:27 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:Paul thought in his mind he was serving God by persecuting the church. Jesus personally corrected him. A/S/K is about the receiving the Holy Spirit, and the fruit and gifts that are retained in the Spirit. Saul's conversion (baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit) was indeed the direct result of him A/S/K with those Jesus had tasked to receive Him. Again A/S/K is about seeking and receiving God on His terms not ours. Saul was humbled when he was blinded, and let God his ideas of God and actively sought out God through the disciples that baptized him.(December 23, 2015 at 5:56 pm)Brakeman Wrote: And as a bonus, no negative response results would ever be accepted by Drich because he will always excuse his god's absence by claiming insincerity just like Peanut's Linus in the great pumpkin patch.
Evidently you have to claim certainty of god's existence before god will come out of his hiding place now, despite this not being the case in the bible. Guess jesus got kinda skittish after that ol' crucifiction thingy...
And on the reverse side.
If someone believes, but misses one of the steps of A/S/K, Yahweh will not provide proof.
So, here we have a believer that wants god to provide proof, but because they might have not been educated correctly, or possibly misinterpreted the passages in Luke that Dritch mentions, Yahweh looks down on this believer and says, "that faithful believer really wants me to provide proof, and he is worthy in every way. Too f'n bad he asked and seeked, but did not knock. I have the power to proved the proof he is looking for, and I can see he is sincere and serious, but, damn...that one missed step".
It's been a long time since I have read the Bible, but if my memory severs me, Saul did no A/S/K when he had his Damascus road experience.
Why did Saul deserve his Damascus road experience, but none of us do?
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