RE: Hell, or rather my brief experience of it.
November 9, 2012 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2012 at 11:41 am by Drich.)
(November 9, 2012 at 11:25 am)Ben Davis Wrote: Err... yeah I do. If you don't see the pretention in your comments, it's you who has the lack of understanding.Evidently not, then please explain.
Quote:No he's not. The number of people who've sincerely made exactly the same request and heard nothing is the evidence of this fallacy.Actually it is a promise made by Christ in Luke 11. The only then one has to do is follow the model of Luke 11.
Quote:But it's not for you alone, is it. You clearly feel a responsibility to share the experience and that makes it fair game for criticism.It's not the expierience that I can share just the testamony derived from what i experienced. What I am 'sharing' is not the experience of Hell but the personal attention Christ offers each of us through the Holy Spirit.
Quote:The whole A/S/K acronym is the most pretentious part. As if you're marketing your own business model for salvation... shame.I use A/S/K simply because I get confused as to which tense of the words i should use. Nothing is being marketed here out side of this parable in Luke 11:
5 And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? 8 I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread[d] from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
What are we supposed to A/S/K for? Look at the last sentence. The Holy Spirit. With the Gift of the Holy Spirit in our lives we are given the ablity to See and Hear God. If we are faithful to this basic gift then we will be given more.