This article is about Experiencing Encounters with God and investigates the question: “Is Experience Prerequisite to Belief?” There is more than one answer to that question. The article will discuss these things in three different contexts of experience: Part 1: The not-yet Believer Part 2: The Believer Part 3: How God Chooses to Reveal Himself … Read more
The context of this article has to do with regeneration and what it means to be a Christian – that is, one who has the Spirit of Christ, and therefore belongs to Christ. However, the article primarily considers the question, “When Do You Receive the Holy Spirit?” Specifically, it investigates whether believers receive the Holy Spirit when they believe – making receiving synonymous with believing; … Read more
For the believer, the subject of faith contains several aspects which could be discussed at length. However, here I am examining the subject of faith and the non-believer. Unless one is purposely preparing for a debate, most people do not spend much time studying something contrary to what they currently believe. We only seek something … Read more
Today, most people do not understand what it means to be Born Again. Because some have abused the meaning of the term, it is often ridiculed. And there are even Christian denominations which ignore or avoid the biblical experience altogether. However, as someone has said: “The answer to abuse is not disuse.” This saying is … Read more
