Dear Pastor Randles
What do you think about being “slain in the spirit”?
I had a bible teacher i know tell me on Sunday that she “came under the Presence” and was “slain in the spirit” on the ground and used John 18 :6 as a prooftext...
When I looked it up, it seemed like the people who fell down when Jesus said “i am he’ were not the disciples, but the unbelievers who were in the garden to arrest him. This slain in the spirit stuff is nutso, imho. What do you think? I don’t even want to talk to this person now.
Thanks for posting of those wonderful declarations and promises in Romans chapter 8.
Year ago(about 1970)I saw a statement of faith I loved. It said: “The only infallible interpretation of scripture, is scripture itself.”
Thanks for posting of those wonderful declarations and promises in Romans chapter 8.
Years ago (about 1970) I saw a statement of faith I loved. It said: “The only infallible interpretation of scripture, is scripture itself.”
**Secondly this is teaching the doctrine of the Trinity, because the Spirit, the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of God are interchangeable terms. When the Spirit is in us, Christ is said to be in us. The Word from the Father, quoted above from John 14, is that “We”, the Father and the Son, “will make our abode in Him”.**
Romans 8 is certainly not a teaching on the doctrine of the (man made teaching) ‘trinity’. Romans 8 teaches that one has to have the Spirit. It can be called the ‘Spirit of Christ’ because it was in Christ reconciling the world unto itself. It’s the Spirit that raised him from the dead. The mind of Christ is the same Holy Ghost that dwelt in the man Jesus Christ. It’s the Spirit that gave the Christ the power to overcome the world, to withstand being tempted in all points (since the Christ was a fleshly man), yet without sin (God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. James 1:13)
When speaking of the gifts of the Spirit, Paul said: “But all these wortheth that ONE and selfsame SPIRIT.....” 1Cor. 12:11
Jesus Christ declared that “God is a Spirit”. John 4:24
He DIDN’T say that God is three in one, three persons, or even three Spirits (but there ARE seven Spirits of God. How does the trinity doctrine explain that, pray tell?).
One God, One God, One God, One God........
Have a happy Thanksgiving!