I know what you are saying, however some people ask questions not out of wanting the answer, but to start an argument for the sake of arguing.
Sure, I won't dispute that. But it seems to make sense to at least be able to explain why you believe what you believe. If the person asking the question turns out to be just looking to argue for the sake of it you can move on.
I cannot explain being "slain in the Spirit" in a way that would satisfy someone. That is why I posted the hymn, even that does not do it justice. The best example in scripture is Saul's Damascus Road experience, because all of the elements are there.
That seems like a pretty good example to me
Even that is a huge step forward from a generic "natural can't understand spiritual" comment, especially when the people on the receiving end of it can reasonably be assumed to be Christians. It's not like we're trying to explain something to a non-Christian.
But then, you get people mocking for your saying your experience was similar to that.
That's always possible, but there's a huge difference between "this is what happened to me" and "this is what I read someone else wrote about what happened to someone else again in a land far away so that nobody can check any of the details".
Some spiritual things cannot be explained, and people accuse people of super spirituality simply because they have not had a similar experience. The way I see it, everyone is on a spiritual journey whether they believe it or not.Some people are in different places on the road.Some people are babies needing the simple milk of the word. Some have grown up and can handle some strong meat. Some people have to be spoon fed by their pastors . Some have learned to feed themselves from the Word. So, that said, I understand why you asked the question, but just understand that I may not have the answer you may be looking for. Jesus told Nicodemus
John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
There are all sorts of accusations that people might throw around but it's easy to see how viewpoints get ignored and sidelined when the people putting them forward seem unable to come up with anything to support them other than "I know this is true", or present an argument that could literally be used word-for-word to support the exact opposite viewpoint. As I've asked in a couple of threads, when one person experiences something and insists it's Godly, and another person experiences the exact same thing and is strongly repelled by it, we need a means of determining who is right. If a sermon speaks powerfully to you and leaves me utterly unmoved we could easily say that the message was meant for you and not for me. But if it troubled me so greatly that I couldn't stand to be in the same room (or even in the same building), we need something to explain the different reactions. And to stick with the argument that supports either side equally well, the person that would say to me (as the one who was repelled by the experiences I described) that "It's spiritual, you wouldn't understand it" could just as easily be addressed by me describing the discernment that led me to leave with "it's spiritual, you wouldn't understand it".
So once again we come back to Paul's call to "test all things" and the obvious question we need to ask is how we can test. There must be some way of testing - I don't imagine Paul would have given an instruction that was impossible to follow.
