tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post113295653917231661..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: A pneuma-shaped idolRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-56696706135893023632011-04-11T21:08:43.124-04:002011-04-11T21:08:43.124-04:00As a charismatic with my feet, sola gratia, plante...As a charismatic with my feet, sola gratia, planted in God's inerrant Word, I often find it strange both 1. the charismatic tendency to elitist (but actually rather lazy, stupid and illiterate (both historically and especially Biblically (2 Tim 2:15 σπουδασον σεαυτον δοκιμον παραστησαι τω θεω εργατην ανεπαισχυντον ορθοτομουντα τον λογον της αληθειας))) notions that experiences with manifestations supposedly of the Holy Spirit are necessarily superior to knowing and devotion to God's Word written and 2. the non-charismatic tendency to elitist (but actually rather proud, arrogant and Biblically disobedient (Ephesians 4:30; 1 Thessalonians 5:19)) notions that mental supposed apprehensions of Scripture are necessarily superior to faith, knowing God Himself! I was in a charismatic fellowship mightily used of God that was graced by powerful manifestations of God's Holy Spirit that sadly then was destablized by immature infatuation with the experiences resulting in sadly abandoning the very Word of God that was its foundation, resulting in a tragic dissolution, destroying the alleged "Passion for Jesus" that turned out to have been rather a disguised passion for self (most members being unwitting and largely Biblically and certainly historically/theologically illiterate synergists without the discernment to realize how heretical those like Finney and to a lesser degree Wesley really were). But by God's grace alone, since my pitiful degree of charismata had feet fixed on God's sure Word He sustained me in the fellowship's dissolution unlike some of the others. Soli Deo Gloria!russedavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00670180429306867443noreply@blogger.com