"Have you ever had a spiritual paranormal encounter?"

[reformed1689]

Define special revelation?

Special specific words from God outside of Scripture.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Special specific words from God outside of Scripture.

Define the "special" part of that?

 

[amadeus]

ha i think "free beer tomorrow" pretty succinctly defines the phenom lol;
the kingdom of heaven is within you
and as to the third heaven,
where I am going, you cannot come

I hear exactly what you saying. Whether I see it I will give it a great big very definite Maybe!

There is also this my friend:

"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." Ecc 8:15

I believe God, but I also believe that men have been allowed by God to do their own thing here within the limits of what He allows. What the final result will be when they do that instead of following God you already know about. I believe that there is a better Way but I am also sure that many who consider themselves believers in God disagree with some conclusions I only mention as possibilities. How can people be so certain? Are they really, or are many of them in a delusion?

 

[reformed1689]

Define the "special" part of that?

Special Revelation is a theological term.

 

[marks]

Why is that? I am pretty certain Scripture does not say we would die in the presence of His Glory....but it does say no man has seen His face and lived.

“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,”
— Jude 1:24 (KJV)

Exactly! Why would I die for being with my Father?

 

[Helen]

I'm asking this to further test out my own 'odd ball' situation.
I personally have never enjoyed anything remotely resembling a 'Road to Damascus' conversion, and maybe that is because, right back to my earliest childhood memories, I have always firmly believed in God and his interaction in my life.
My parents had two devastating life and heath losses before I was born and mother, who otherwise was a very sociable person, invited every visitor in for a drink and goodies. But when the visitor was JW, Salvation Army, Local Evangelicals etc., she always demanded that they should never mention the word 'God' whilst in her house.
(I think I might conversely have grown up to believe that there just had to be a God for her to have been so angry with him)
Amazingly my mother sent me to the Sunday school in the Evangelical Chapel on the opposite side of our road (presumably to get a bit of Sunday afternoon peace).

I remember my neighbour's ex army son giving my a tiny 'Forces' New Testament, to which I attached such value that it never left my shirt pocket whether at nursery school or at play.
I rarely read it but I remember how much importance I still placed on its presence when I later sat for the 11Plus exams for entry into Grammar School.
I was best friends with my desk mate at that time who was much higher placed at school than me, and when I passed the 11Plus exam, and he didn't, I put it down to the magical influence of my pocket New Testament.
When we were older I persuaded him to join the Young Men's Group that proceeded Sunday School and eventually he excepted the Lord as his Saviour, became my 'best man' when I married at the Chapel and, until the chapel closed last year, was their senior deacon.
We still write to each other and he reckons himself to be the "Jewel in my Crown " without which he would never have met his wife and brought up a lovely family of five.
BUT
I have never "enjoyed anything remotely resembling a 'Road to Damascus' conversion".
Is that the reason why I appear to some to be an 'Intellectual Believer' without a Saving Faith?
What say you all?
Have you ever had a Paranormal Spiritual Encounter?
Met Christ Face to Face?
Seen a blinding light?
Enjoyed a life changing moment?
Experienced a Reincarnation?

I have to say @Mike Waters I don't find the word Paranormal as being a very Christian word. It's linked more with clairvoyance etc.

God is spirit .. ( many people post "God is a spirit" ..He is not "a" anything. He is SPIRIT. ) Therefore why is it strange that His children find that which is spiritual 'abnormal'...shame on us...the things of the Spirit should be 'second nature' to us and not some strange phenomena

In reading through the pages of this thread ( interesting thread by the way)
I find so many dogmatically saying- " That's not God'...or "God does not do that"
Well news flash for them..thankfully He doesn't ask for their permission and He does just what He likes, when He like, and how He likes.
And the nay sayers can say as much as they like.." It's not God". But as things like this have been happening and documented for centuries ...why are the nay-sayers to declare that these things didn't happen or where not God.
TIME alone will prove on who's side truth is on.

As you may remember and I have also mentioned it on this forum a few time..I have seen angels. ( can you hear them saying already " That was not God, He never does that" )

I did not "need" to see angels, I was not asking to see angels, I was not desiring to see angels..my faith was not so weak that God showed me to somehow prop me us in faith. I just saw 'em. They were there. Not of my invite and not of my choosing.
My CHOICE was to sleep. I'd had six weeks caring for my dying father. His heart and kidneys were failing, he could't breath . What my request and my desire was , that God would take him Home and take him quickly giving him his final relief from struggling and labouring to breath. .
I needed sleep. When I saw the 4 angels at 10.30pm , I was not shocked, it did not seem abnormal , it did not seem 'out of place'...it seem the most normal thing in the world. My only comment was- "Thank You Lord the angels are here for dad....I can sleep now as they will look after him. "
They were solid as they stood there ...as solid as any human we see looks solid.

Now why some people have experiences and others don't, I have no idea.

Since I was first born-again in 1964 , I have always been very aware of the spiritual kingdom being right here with us. Just hidden from view.
So much so , that when I was a baby Christian and closed my eyes to pray, I was almost afraid that if I opened my eyes during prayer I would see His angels standing there. :)
Hebrews 1 tells us - "Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? "
I am sure they are much more active in all Christians lives than we ever think.

 

[reformed1689]

Well news flash for them..thankfully He doesn't ask for their permission and He does just what He likes, when He like, and how He likes.
And the nay sayers can say as much as they like.." It's not God". But as things like this have been happening and documented for centuries ...why are the nay-sayers to declare that these things didn't happen or where not God.
TIME alone will prove on who's side truth is on.

I get so tired of people making statements like this. It is as if you think we are trying to limit God. No, rather, we are saying what God has told us He does or does not do. In other words, God limits Himself and God does not lie.

 

[Helen]

Kathryn Kuhlman was an adulteress fraud.

Tell her that when you see her. For see see her you will.

Plus she freely admits her sins and her faking healings at the latter part of her ministry.

 

[marks]

In August 2013 I had what I thought was a stroke affecting the whole of the R/H side of my face. My first response was to ask for prayer and I asked who I should ask and at church the next day I felt led to ask a young man who was new Christian.

I felt complete peace at this time but the following day my daughter insisted I went to the doctor and I was admitted to hospital I was grey and not able to smile, close my right eye, taste food, or drink without drooling. I spent four days in hospital and was diagnosed as having Bell’s Palsy and told the effects could take a year to heal.

I came home on the evening of Thursday 22nd August and only because the guy who had prayed for me had gone to this meeting I watched the Live Stream from the revival in Cwmbran on Saturday 24th As I watched I joined in the worship and listened as the speaker spoke about the faith of the centurion.

At the end of the preach he called people out for prayer and then just before he stepped off the platform he pointed at me – through the camera – and said that Jesus would heal my face and my eye. I gasped audibly and quite loudly and then a few minutes later I began to feel a tingling sensation in the R/H side of my face, especially round my eye.

I could feel the sensation trickling down the side of my face and then the muscles began to gently contract and tighten up. When Ray, who had been out of the room for a short while, came back in he was amazed at the difference in me in just a few short minutes. My face was pink again; my smile was back and could close my eye and drink properly and taste my food.

I just KNEW that God had healed me. It was truly wonderful.

Wonderful testimony!

Much love!

 

[reformed1689]

Tell her that when you see her. For see see her you will.

Plus she freely admits her sins and her faking healings at the latter part of her ministry.

Then why were you questioning my eye roll?

 

[Helen]

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That was David's eye roll . . .

Sorry , your avatars are too alike..I mistook them .

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Special Revelation is a theological term.

But you said: "special specific words."
What would constitute the words being special or not special?

 

[Helen]

I'm saying there is no more special revelation today.

And you can go on saying it as much as you like!!

 

[reformed1689]

But you said: "special specific words."
What would constitute the words being special or not special?

I'm not talking about individual words...good grief.

 

[reformed1689]

And you can go on saying it as much as you like!!

The Bible says it too.

 

[Helen]

Special specific words from God outside of Scripture.

Don't worry David...God is a gentleman, He wont bother to talk to you or people who can't , wont, and don't believe that He can.

In the "things of the Spirit" ..you are obviously a non-believer...God will leave you be. You are safe.

 

[Helen]

The Bible says it too.

Hahaha! Now I have heard it all.

 

[reformed1689]

Don't worry David...God is a gentleman, He wont bother to talk to you or people who can't , wont, and don't believe that He can.

In the "things of the Spirit" ..you are obviously a non-believer...God will leave you be. You are safe.

Ad hominemn and not even true. I never said he couldn't did I? No, you just lied about me.

 

[reformed1689]

Hahaha! Now I have heard it all.
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Clearly you haven't heard Scripture.

 

[amadeus]

It is as if you think we are trying to limit God.

But according to your faith is how it is. You say you are not limiting God but in yourself by what you don't believe or what you do believe you have limited Him even as they did in the OT.

No, rather, we are saying what God has told us He does or does not do. In other words, God limits Himself and God does not lie.

The limitation God put on Himself was in giving man the ability to disagree with Him and to limit God Himself, and for a period of time to do his own thing [free will men call it] if that is what he chose to do. God knew that most men would go against Him. He was and is looking for those who will go against the flow because they love God more than anything else.