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To: Dark Skies
Regarding unholy spirits, only you would know if and when the Holy Spirit is speaking through you. His Voice is loving and kind.

How does one know if the Spirit is speaking to them when it disagrees with another person who makes the same claim? Thus, the problem of Protestantism. This is the danger of listening to one's own "conscience", attempting to judge what the Spirit is saying - sometimes against the Church itself. A Body in dissension will fall, says Christ.

Regards

11 posted on 11/30/2005 8:06:05 AM PST by jo kus
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To: jo kus
How does one know if the Spirit is speaking to them when it disagrees with another person who makes the same claim?

Prayer...diligent prayer. And as you said earlier (to paraphrase), if we focus on the big picture (Him), all our little disagreements melt away.

And if a disagreement still bothers us, reach out in humility instead of contentiousness and, at least in my experience, what we thought was a difference might be just a misunderstanding.

12 posted on 11/30/2005 8:18:58 AM PST by Dark Skies ("The sleeper must awaken!")
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