i wouldent sugguest it but experience and authority is real :)

[Holy999]

can you say me it ?

 

[BruceLeiter]

can you say me it ?

Whose experience and authority are you referring to, @Holy999?

 

[Holy999]

Whose experience and authority are you referring to, @Holy999?

your own life lessons

 

[Edward429451]

Experience is a wonderful thing. The man with experience is never at the mercy of the one who has doctrine.

Authority is what most people have no clue about. We actually have been given authority in the name of Jesus to overcome all evil.

So why is most of the world evil? They have no idea that authority is real and has protocols that come with it. Why don't most Christians exercise their authority in Christ? They don't Believe it? Study "Authority" in scripture

 

[BruceLeiter]

Experience is a wonderful thing. The man with experience is never at the mercy of the one who has doctrine.

Authority is what most people have no clue about. We actually have been given authority in the name of Jesus to overcome all evil.

So why is most of the world evil? They have no idea that authority is real and has protocols that come with it. Why don't most Christians exercise their authority in Christ? They don't Believe it? Study "Authority" in scripture

What I object to is the philosophy of pragmatism, which relies on human experience to guide a person's life, the idea that led my dad for most of his life without God. (See the book The Wild West's Best [Amazon] for a Christian's life in finding victory over pragmatism.)

Yes, Jesus' resurrection power gives us authority to be "more than conquerors" over the devil and the demons through prayer based on what he has done for us. Amen, @Edward429451!

Rom 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
Rom 8:39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Eph 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Eph 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

 

[Edward429451]

What I object to is the philosophy of pragmatism, which relies on human experience to guide a person's life, the idea that led my dad for most of his life without God. (See the book The Wild West's Best [Amazon] for a Christian's life in finding victory over pragmatism.)

I learned a long time ago that everyone lies to you. I don't know about it being pragmatic philosophically speaking, but I look at what the world is trying to tell me and I weight it up against what I have seen for myself. Experience is a discernment tool. You want me to believe what? If what he says is so then it wont contradict anything that I have seen. I have seen it done more successfully by doing it a different way...I can't believe what you say is true because I would have to deny what the Lord has shown me to be so! So that's the only way I use it.

 

[BruceLeiter]

I learned a long time ago that everyone lies to you. I don't know about it being pragmatic philosophically speaking, but I look at what the world is trying to tell me and I weight it up against what I have seen for myself. Experience is a discernment tool. You want me to believe what? If what he says is so then it wont contradict anything that I have seen. I have seen it done more successfully by doing it a different way...I can't believe what you say is true because I would have to deny what the Lord has shown me to be so! So that's the only way I use it.

Yes, God does teach us through experience in the light of his Word as Christians, doesn't he, @Edward429451?