It is totally absurd
to assert that
EXPERIENCE (A) IS ARBITRARILY HOLY, RIGHTEOUS AND RELIABLE
WHILE
EXPERIENCE (B) IS ARBITRARILY EVIL, CORRUPT, USELESS.
That's not even remotely reasonable.
It's certainly NOT Biblical.
NO ONE
has a clue that there even
apart from one's EXPERIENCE of the wood pulp and ink.
Sheesh!
THINKING before typing is usually wiser than not doing so.
Sigh.
Nobody is arbitrarily saying anything is valid or not. it's not arbitrary to use Scripture, which is what it's there for.
It's certainly NOT Biblical. NO ONE has a clue that there even IS such a thing as a BIBLE apart from one's EXPERIENCE of the wood pulp and ink.
The truth of God's word is truth and stands alone as truth regardless of any one person's *experiences* with it.
The Bible isn't truth based on my experience with it. It is truth, period. It is the absolute standard by which EVERYTHING else is to be measured, including feely good experiences.
Show me anywhere in Scripture that the Apostles taught classes in how to speak in tongues! Yet, people DID have that gift and Scripture describes it AND how it was experienced AND its purpose. Anywhere in there about people rolling around on the floor? Barking like dogs? Laughing so uncontrollably that they peed their pants? If THAT was part of the "experience", believe me, those Corinthians would have experienced it first! And Paul would have rebuked them over that as well! Do all thing decently and in order, is what he said - by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
When will you have enough of telling everyone who disagrees with you on this subject that they are WRONG! ABSURD! UNSPIRITUAL! VILE! EVIL! ??? Really, when will it be enough and you finally get it that we can be just as Spirit-filled, just as anointed, just as holy, just as loving, just as obedient as you and your peeps and NOT speak in tongues nor accept its reality for today??? That is what it boils down to. Can you respect and accept Christian brothers and sisters and rejoice in all we DO agree on and let this part go? You need to decide. Now's a good time, while you're tired.