Message from @pinkfloydfan123

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2020-01-06 08:29:47 UTC  

The term "see" is a dangerous thing, there are manifestations, then there is what is called seeing his divinity which can be considered impossible because of the essence of divinity

2020-01-06 08:29:54 UTC  

Not exactly, but you are saying it

2020-01-06 08:30:21 UTC  

He can protect you from evil without you being in his presence

2020-01-06 08:30:35 UTC  

Even when it comes to other persons of the Trinity, while they can manifest themselves, we do not see their divinity, which would be beyond us

2020-01-06 08:30:37 UTC  

And i mean his glory, which can be destructive as we heard

2020-01-06 08:31:12 UTC  

I mean, one could even argue God revealed his divinity to John in his Apocalypse, which would explain many of the visions and the incomprehensible nature of some of what is spoken of in that book.

2020-01-06 08:31:57 UTC  

I think they were just visions tbh

2020-01-06 08:32:30 UTC  

Prophetic visions, many of which struggle to be put into words by admission what was seen

2020-01-06 08:32:41 UTC  

Yes exactly

2020-01-06 08:32:47 UTC  

I was going to say that

2020-01-06 08:33:06 UTC  

And then he says what he thinks he saw

2020-01-06 08:33:12 UTC  

Could easily have been at least in part the full divinity of God, same with the appearance on the road to Damascus to Paul

2020-01-06 08:33:53 UTC  

Fear and terror and awe always accompany God revealing himself

2020-01-06 08:34:08 UTC  

The uncreated light, as heysachists call it

2020-01-06 08:35:24 UTC  

Right, that is why i think that the holy spirit as God is not likely to get in a moraly unclean person, not because it cant but because it decides to not

2020-01-06 08:36:10 UTC  

Because it is destructive to the human, to have God inside him when he is unclean

2020-01-06 08:36:16 UTC  

Paul was as morally unclean as it gets

2020-01-06 08:36:24 UTC  

He slaughtered Christians

2020-01-06 08:36:26 UTC  

Yes but he changed

2020-01-06 08:36:29 UTC  

After

2020-01-06 08:36:29 UTC  

What about people who decide to give their lives to Christ?

2020-01-06 08:36:53 UTC  

Well when did he get the holy spirit?

2020-01-06 08:37:05 UTC  

He got it by grace

2020-01-06 08:37:05 UTC  

When God appeared on the road to Damascus, Paul was presently a blasphemer and a murderer

2020-01-06 08:37:14 UTC  

^

2020-01-06 08:37:40 UTC  

Yes but when did he receive it?

2020-01-06 08:38:03 UTC  

Not until he was blinded and left there to seek shelter with a Christian did he receive grace, far after the fact

2020-01-06 08:38:11 UTC  

And everyone is getting it by grace.

2020-01-06 08:38:20 UTC  

Yes he changed though

2020-01-06 08:38:25 UTC  

After

2020-01-06 08:38:28 UTC  

He dependent

2020-01-06 08:38:40 UTC  

Yeah and after he received the spirit

2020-01-06 08:39:36 UTC  

He recieved the spirit because he changed, because God giving the mercy of revealing his divinity without passing immediate judgement is a mercy beyond comprehension not to be taken lightly

2020-01-06 08:39:55 UTC  

But it is within His power fully to grant

2020-01-06 08:40:00 UTC  

Yes i agree

2020-01-06 08:40:34 UTC  

But i still see it thst the God will give the spirit when you are clean

2020-01-06 08:41:12 UTC  

You are never, ever clean when God grants the Spirit, because the Spirit is the only thing capable of making clean

2020-01-06 08:41:32 UTC  

Hm

2020-01-06 08:42:37 UTC  

Well yeah you can't be fully clean because you never can be sinless

2020-01-06 08:43:28 UTC  

You receive the spirit because you are unclean, not because you put on the facade of holiness. If anything, the facade of holiness is an impediment to the reception of the spirit.

2020-01-06 08:44:16 UTC  

Can you support your claim with the bible? A story or something