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Are there other Christian authors besides WLC who believe that all Christians have access to a direct, self-authenticating experience of God?
Here is a well known Christian author who is certainly not on the fringes of Christian thought:
If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God ...
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What is the biblical counter-argument to the expression "the Universe provides"?
To treat of the creation as if it was a person capable of communication and able to answer a request for provision is idolatry :
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the ...
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What is the biblical counter-argument to the expression "the Universe provides"?
You could start with "Evey good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change" James ch1 v17, ...
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What is the biblical counter-argument to the expression "the Universe provides"?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? - Matthew 6:26
We do not know for ...
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What is the biblical counter-argument to the expression "the Universe provides"?
The Lillies of the Field (Luke 12:22-31; Matthew 6:24-34, KJV)
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ...
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Is there any protestant method how to deal spiritual dryness?
Yes, and I just give one example here, followed by a few comments of my own. The author of this book is a Protestant, and so am I (but we would not classify ourselves as in the 'evangelical' or '...
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Is there any protestant method how to deal spiritual dryness?
While it's not the exclusive subject of the Screwtape Letters, it is one of the topics C.S. Lewis touches on in it:
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than
when a human, ...
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Which Christian groups or denominations believe in modern-day Christophanies?
Which Christian groups or denominations believe in modern-day Christophanies?
Both Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints claim to have Christophanies.
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Is there any protestant method how to deal spiritual dryness?
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am ...
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Does the battle between the flesh and the spirit ever get easier?
Mathew 26:41
The spirit is indeed willing but the flesh is weak.
That best describes what your are experiencing. Trust me, every believer undergoes this struggle daily because of
Ephesians 6:12
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Does the battle between the flesh and the spirit ever get easier?
For people for whom there is no battle between the flesh and the spirit, then such people remain spiritually dead in their sins. But for Christians, this truth applies:
"And you hath he ...
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Does the battle between the flesh and the spirit ever get easier?
Victorious Life The verses in the comment above are of help in keeping a true perspective of the Christian life with all its personal and interpersonal struggles. (Romans 7:24-8:4) Paul's statement at ...
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Are people who have a closer unity to God called to act by the divine?
From the Christian context, all believers are called to act by God (the divine) regardless of their level of spiritual maturity:
Matthew 22:36-40
King James Version
36 Master, which is the great ...
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