Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
Test the Spirits Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God Human beings have always sought to pass beyond the boundaries of ordinary consciousness. Across cultures and religions, peo…
Read article →Tal Brooke · Christian investigation · 1979
…s the governing authority. Death Afterlife Near-death experiences Occultism Reincarnation Spiritual deception Biblical discernment
View recommendation →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…Their correct belief plainly does not amount to reconciliation with Him. James 2:19. Here spiritual apprehension means recognising the significance of God’s revealed truth for our actual relationship to Him: God is my Creator; His judgment concerns me; the guilt is mine; the cruc…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…gation. They may tell us something about memory, consciousness, the dying process and the spiritual seriousness of death. But no report from an operating theatre, however vivid, can sit in judgement upon the Son of God. Christ and the larger witness of Scripture must interpret th…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…of God, shewing himself that he is God" (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). His career is marked by deception, false signs, rebellion, sacrilegious self-exaltation, and destruction by the brightness of Christ's coming (2 Thessalonians 2:8-10). The resemblance to Daniel is not superficial.…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…efend the true incarnation of Christ against those who turned Him into an apparition or a spiritual myth. I love their insistence that the God of the gospel is the Creator of heaven and earth, that the body is not evil, that Jesus Christ truly suffered in the flesh, and that He r…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…d blood belonged to God, that approach to Him was costly, and that created life was never spiritually meaningless. The biblical doctrine is balanced and demanding. Animals may serve legitimate human needs, but they are not therefore beyond the concern of their Creator. The beast…
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