Hi, I am pretty new here, glad to be here. I am a Christian, and I feel truly blessed because I also have experiences which prove to me that Jesus is alive and Christianity is the path to happiness.
Something I dont really understand is that many Christians seem to settle for concepts, rather than praying for experiences of Grace, miracles, and feeling the Peace of God.
It is one thing to read the Bible and to agree on what we believe. It is quite another thing to experience a happiness that is not of this world, or people being healed when you lay hands and pray.
So I am just curious. Are you satisfied with concepts, or are you pursuing experiences? And if you go for the experiences, how do you make the leap from concept to experience?
Concepts Versus Experience
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Re: Concepts Versus Experience
Post #2[Replying to ThijsH in post #1]
Let me answer this question, which may have passed into oblivion.
There are three: the Lord, faith and charity. If a man does not approach the visible God Jesus Christ, in whom is the Invisible Divine, then the quality of everything else sufferes, because there is no (genuine) conjunction with the invisible outside of what is visible. However, without faith and charity, the concept is not living, but only in charity it is living. It is similar with other particulars. The quality of the concept determines the quality of the life, but without life there is no true quality with a man.
Let me answer this question, which may have passed into oblivion.
There are three: the Lord, faith and charity. If a man does not approach the visible God Jesus Christ, in whom is the Invisible Divine, then the quality of everything else sufferes, because there is no (genuine) conjunction with the invisible outside of what is visible. However, without faith and charity, the concept is not living, but only in charity it is living. It is similar with other particulars. The quality of the concept determines the quality of the life, but without life there is no true quality with a man.
