How to be filled with the Holy Spirit - A. W. Tozer Audiobook

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  naugahyde
  March 9th, 2020
  

  This should definitely NOT be in the non-fiction category.

  How to be filled with the Holy Spirit - A. W. Tozer
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  CaptainZero
  March 10th, 2020
  

  I remember when I bought the companion reader for Gravity’s Rainbow by Pynchon, I thought it was great. It’s a complex and difficult to understand novel. I also bought the one for Infinite Jest when I read it for the third time. These things are good literary companions. However, when you write an instruction manual for living your life properly, and the consequence is eternal torture, you need to make it clear and concise.It should not contradict itself. It should remain up to date with technology. For instance, the parts about not eating certain animals should be removed, since no Christians follow the strictures in the first place, and we now understand refrigeration and preservation. And the parts that don’t line up with our current morality, like encouraging parents to murder their children if they are disrespectful. That needs to be taken out. As the Grammerly commercials have pointed out, writing is hard. Apparently, it’s difficult, even if you are god. Never in history has there been such a poorly written book as the Bible. There are hundreds of thousands of supplemental writings. Gods choice of editors was very poor.
  Also: I own a computer, like the rest of the people on the planet. When there is new, updated information, it is added automatically. This is from a bunch of humans. They make it work. You’d think that a god could schedule automatic updates to his instruction manual. I’m starting to think that he secretly loves torturing people for eternity. Watch out for that guy, and perhaps look into a more peaceful religion. I recommend The Satanic Temple. Their tenets alone are far more Christian than the tenets followed by modern Christians. They believe in love and charity, common courtesy and stewardship of the planet. They don’t believe in silliness like the “Holy Spirit”

  How to be filled with the Holy Spirit - A. W. Tozer
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  caesar963
  March 11th, 2020
  

  

  Yeah Cap, why don’t Plato, Aristotle & Cicero stay up to date with “social” media? A major lapse in their collective character.
  The dietary laws? From which Christians are wholly exempt? Oh, those dietary laws!
  Also, the exemption from circumcision (Phew!) - to which I attribute the retention of my good ole foreskin. Consequently, the “beast with 2 backs” is faaar more enjoyable & pleasurable.
  The Torah/Old Testament being generally viewed by Christians as allegorical, symbolic & metaphorical, is also beneficial.

  However, just to mitigate the possible, perceived anti-Semitism of hysterically railing against the Torah & its laws, I must here advise that prior to Mosaic Law, the murder of children by their parents, although hopefully marginal, was a feature of the ancient world. The introduction of a judicial process was intended to prevent this. Although, (and you’ll appreciate this) the law, and many other textual aspects of the Torah, are often mendaciously misrepresented. (What a world, eh?)

  In a similar way, the moral point of the story of Abraham & Isaac was to end the practice of child-sacrifice. Of course, tragically, the killing of children has returned - in far greater numbers. However, that’s “our current morality” for ya. New & improved, Morality 2.0.

  Several other potential lessons around the “Grammerly” question. First, not only writing, but defensible orthography is difficult. In addition, actual reading, interpretation & understanding can be hard as adamantine.

  Does everyone on the planet own a computer? Is this yet another incontrovertible “fact” Cap?

  Reasonably enough, your “Satanic Temple” - to the extent that it has a healthy moral compass, would, like the rest of us in Western culture, seem to weigh the morality of an act based on objective, Judeo-Christian ethics. That’s our lens; inescapable, I’m afraid. Unless you’re a big fan of 20th Century, slave-state, democidal, toxic ideology? But that’s a whole other mountain of corpses, as they say.

  Thanks again, rmoor!

  How to be filled with the Holy Spirit - A. W. Tozer
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  ohyeahbaby
  March 30th, 2020
  

  naugahyde… you must be so proud to be so cleve.

  How to be filled with the Holy Spirit - A. W. Tozer

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