Posted on 10/13/2013 8:17:11 PM PDT by jodyel
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i love Teresa of Avila... i found a beautiful book about her life several years ago... i think i will read it again...
I think you must not have read the article then.
The wise search the Scriptures with great diligence to see if what they have been taught is true. (Acts 17) A Christian is by definition a lover of the truth, for He is the way and the Truth. Christians are to worship in spirit and Truth. Let us never be like those described in Isaiah 30:8-11: “And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord; who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things,prophesy illusions,leave the way, turn aside from the path,let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Proverbs 14:12)
Having read “The Interior Castle” I did not see it in the same way the author did. To me it was about even though we know Christ how we struggle each day in life - how things get in the way so to speak of a more perfectly realized (from our perspective) union with him. From this book there is no mistaking the woman’s deep desire to know Jesus and to walk perfectly with him. As the writer points out Biblical translation in ones own tongue was scarce at this time yet this woman sought God with every fibre of her being. Would that I had such desire that I too would be though diabolical in my zeal for Him as Christ was also thought so by the religious of His time!
BTW, he fought under Pedro Navarro against the Muslims to capture Tripoli for Spain before entering the religious life.
http://www.shoutingfromtherooftop.com/satanic-healing.html
http://www.projectrestore.com/library/radiant_living/11_counterfeit_healing.htm
Maybe this was where everything started going to Hell...
My Lutheran Sunday School teacher was our next door neighbor growing up, so we knew her quite well in and out of church. When she came to our wedding [I received First Holy Communion on that same day too], along with our gift she gave us a handwritten quote (on a 3x5” index card) from St. Teresa of Avila. A swell and thoughtful gift from an incredible Christian.
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My, my...I wonder if Teresa of Avila would approve of such nasty attacking of another Christian? Somehow, I think not.
She was not evangelistic then I take it. :)
Wow, thanks for that fascinating input, talisker!
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