Is anointing symbolic only?

[user1234]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWT8BjS4aw0

Some nice images in that video.

 

[tango]

The thing is that God is no respector of persons so whatever experience they might desire they can have providing they are willing to walk the same walk. It is our closeness to God and our obedience that will dictate what God will and will not do for us. If we are walking as God wants us to and we are within our calling then there is no limit to what God will pour out on us

The trouble is we can't assume that whatever experience we might desire can be had merely by walking more closely with God.

Let's say my earnest desire is to have a healing ministry. What could be wrong with wanting such a thing - to see people healed and glory brought to God is a perfectly laudable thing to desire. But if what God wants me to do is something prophetic then no matter how closely I walk in the footsteps God would have me walk I'm not going to have the experience of the healing ministry.

If we are walking as God wants us to walk then we can expect our walk to be blessed, although when viewed from a human perspective we might still not look very blessed - few people see someone in financial poverty and ill health and figure it's the result of God's blessings, but that person may be very aware of blessings worth far more than health and prosperity in this life.

 

[Pedrito]

In Post #52 on Page 6, MoreCoffee stated [emphasis added]:

“I don't know what other people feel I can guess and use my own experiences as an analogue but I cannot KNOW because I am not them and only they (and God) know fully what they feel. But I can point to the way holy scripture describes events - it usually describes events rather than offering information about somebody's feelings - and check if the claims about feeling this or that corresponds with what the holy scriptures say. That is why I asked for scripture about feeling somebody else's anointing. I'd never read a passage that would fit that pattern and the passage that was given (about the disciples after talking with Jesus feeling their hearts burn within them) didn't say anything about feeling the anointing that somebody else had it only mentioned the disciples feeling something as they listened.”

Elsewhere (Pedrito forgets where), MoreCoffee has stated that the idea of “Sola Scriptura” is heresy. He has also indicated that “apostolic tradition” (a blanket label which includes ideas which surfaced so long after apostolic times that they could not have originated with the apostles) has equal authority with Scripture. And as applied in practice, that “apostolic tradition” overrides Holy Scripture where the two conflict.

So why concentrate on “holy scripture” in this case? Why confine the search for evidence, to the Gospels, Acts, and apostolic writings?

Does that not seem inconsistent?

Could it be that some of the Early Church believers and writers had similar (inconvenient?) understandings about feelings, anointing and spontaneity that others in this forum have “voiced”?

 

[MoreCoffee]

Pedrito, I am so glad that I can keep you entertained and busy for months with a single post

:cheer:

 

[Pedrito]

Me too.