Why or Why Not?
Is it biblical? Why or Why Not?
Is it biblical? Why or Why Not?
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yea, I get drunk in the spirit because i get filled to overflowing with the spirit of god and getting drunk in the spirit is the natural result of being filled to overflowing. Praise Him with all your might, and all your ability and if you do it often enough, you will evenetually get drunk in the spirit regularly. But it ain't gonna happen just singing a little ole song or two.Why or Why Not?
some say it is, there's some verse that could mean that, the one about being slain in the spirit, and the one about be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be ye being filled with the spirit.IOWLBNIF said:Is it biblical? Why or Why Not?
I really think its a matter of semantics. To be drunk does mean to be filled. The problem is however 'drunk' has a negative connotation that is frowned upon in the Bible, whereas being filled with God's Spirit IS Biblical. Let's not condemn people based on semantics, okay? Now one thing I will make note of, the epistles do stress order in the congregations, not disorder. Being drunk tends to mean disorderly, and I think some have taken this disorderly idea too far in charismatic circles.
I really think its a matter of semantics. To be drunk does mean to be filled. The problem is however 'drunk' has a negative connotation that is frowned upon in the Bible, whereas being filled with God's Spirit IS Biblical. Let's not condemn people based on semantics, okay? Now one thing I will make note of, the epistles do stress order in the congregations, not disorder. Being drunk tends to mean disorderly, and I think some have taken this disorderly idea too far in charismatic circles.
Just curious, but do you observe all 613 laws of the Torah? I have been studying this matter of late, and how there was a dispute in the early church with John, Peter and Paul, as Paul was teaching so much against the law. It is obvious to me that the Gentiles were never meant to adopt the 613 laws, but perhaps to adapt to a Noachic law; the laws given to Noah, and Adam, and to also accept the teachings of Jesus, and the ten commandments. I think that Paul was in the middle of a big dispute, between the Jewish Christians and the new Gentile believers, and what was appropriate for both communities.
I have just read 'Jesus' Words Only' by Douglas J. del Tondo, and he makes a good case against Paul, as being opposed to the teachings of Jesus, who taught that the law was still in place, and always would be.
The bible condemns drinking alcohol. So I don't go to nightclubs because nightclubs are all about alcohol. If they take alcohol out of nightclubs i might go then.so you justify your sins because the bible doesnt say anything about it?
do you also go to nightclubs? since the bible doesnt say anything about it as well?
you don't find drunk in the spirit in the bible so that is evil. but what about all the other numerous church doctrines that are not in the bible, like conformation? Is conformation evil cause the word isn't in the bible? I doubt you have any issue with that word, or many others, such as trinity, that are found nowhere in the bible.IOWLBNIF said:Being "drunk in the Spirit" is not biblical brother, you need to repent
you should be sorry to say that you never praise the Lord in the dance. You should be sorry to say that you never dance before the lLord with all your might and ability. you should be sorry to say that you don't do those things on a regular every church service basis. And most probably you should also be sorry that you never got baptised in the Holy Spirit.IOWLBNIF said:your combining an unholy act with something that is holy, that is wrong.....repent
"dont be drunk with whine in excess, but be filled with the spirit"
does not mean "dont get drunk on wine but drunk on the spirit" im sorry to say
you need to do what God said to do.IOWLB said:you need to examine yourself
Your idea of order is really stoicism, which is all pervaisive in the christian world. My idea of order is there is a time to praise the Lord, a time to listen to the sermon, a time to fellowship and chit chat etc. God is not a sour puss, man just wants to take all the exicetment and joy out of church services and make them as boreing and uneventfull as possible, and man has greatly acchieved that goal. but not universally. Some of us know God is not a sourpuss. God brings Joy, laughter, agape love, excitement, so much so that after a while it is more than one can handle and one falls to the ground unable to stand, one becomes light headed. But the good thing is there's no hangover from getting drunk in the spirit. I sorta suspect that God intends for man to get drunk to releive the stress of life, but the right way to get drunk is in the spirit, the wrong way is with alchohol.IOWLB said:God is a God of order, not disorder............And ive seen some of these videos, and these people running around carrying on, is not biblical
repent please
i didnt think i was sentencing someone to hell, can you show me where i did?
Also, if your running around "being drunk" in the Spirit as i have seen on youtube, then there is no semantics about it.
And why do you think the laws are still in place?
i honestly and say this the best way i can, idc what some book written by some guy says
i care about what the bible says
if you put into question what paul said and wrote for the bible
then you put into question the whole bible
For the gospels were written by men, not Christ, so if you question what paul says, then you, by default, should question what Luke and Mark wrote down, for they were only hearing what was happening
Also, if the law is so important, then why did Peter send this letter to the believing gentiles
The apostles and elders, your brothers,
To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:
Greetings.
24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. 25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
^explain that please, and explain why the law is still in effect
The bible condemns drinking alcohol. So I don't go to nightclubs because nightclubs are all about alcohol. If they take alcohol out of nightclubs i might go then.
you should be sorry to say that you never praise the Lord in the dance. You should be sorry to say that you never dance before the lLord with all your might and ability. you should be sorry to say that you don't do those things on a regular every church service basis. And most probably you should also be sorry that you never got baptised in the Holy Spirit.
here's another proof. when they spoke in tongues , i.e got baptised in the holy spirit on the day of pentecost, they were accused of being drunk. Because obviously some or maybe all were drunk in the spirit. when one gets full of the spirit to overflowing it is an exillerating liberating feeling. One you no doubt have never experienced. I speak from experience, you don't.
For if you had done all those biblical things then you too would have gotten drunk in the spirit.
The bible doesn't list each specific thing that is allowable and each specific thing that is not allowable. The bible doesnt say anything about driving an automobile, or sking down a slope, or whether it's ok to put pews or chairs in a church building. IF the bible doesn't condemn something then it's ok. Going to night clubs would be condemned on the grounds that it is for getting inebriated. Drving a car is ok on the grounds there is no sin involved in the proper use of an automoblie. there is no sin involved in dancing before the Lord with all your might an ability. you can't do that on a regular baises without getting drunk in the spirit, or whatever you want to call it. Come back to me when you have decided to do what God says about praising him then tell me what you experienced as far as whether you got drunk in the spirit or not.
Jesus said that the law was not abrogated. Paul said that.
Your idea of order is really stoicism, which is all pervaisive in the christian world. My idea of order is there is a time to praise the Lord, a time to listen to the sermon, a time to fellowship and chit chat etc. God is not a sour puss, man just wants to take all the exicetment and joy out of church services and make them as boreing and uneventfull as possible, and man has greatly acchieved that goal. but not universally. Some of us know God is not a sourpuss. God brings Joy, laughter, agape love, excitement, so much so that after a while it is more than one can handle and one falls to the ground unable to stand, one becomes light headed. But the good thing is there's no hangover from getting drunk in the spirit. I sorta suspect that God intends for man to get drunk to releive the stress of life, but the right way to get drunk is in the spirit, the wrong way is with alchohol.
So you can have your boreing stoic dead church service where everyone can't wait till the 30 min. service is over,, and Ill enjoy the joy and laughter and love that the Lord brings me by praising him with everything in me.
I have to say if it is 'experiential' then who cares if it 'is or is not' specifically spelled out in the bible? I wonder if 'whether or not' it 'aligns with biblical principles or not' is more important than whether there is a 'jot and a tittle' spelling it out in the bible.Why or Why Not?
Is it biblical? Why or Why Not?
I have to say if it is 'experiential' then who cares if it 'is', or 'is not' specifically spelled out biblically? I wonder if 'whether or not' it 'aligns with biblical principles or not' is more important than whether there is a 'jot and a tittle' spelling it out in the bible.
I have two questions for you.
1. Did you say a 'sinners prayer' to get saved?
2. I'm curious, what exactly is 'the definition' of "drunk in the Spirit"...according to you, or anyone else who is posting here?
the point is you don't do those things, so you don't know what you would do if you did those things. I do those things, you don't.. so you're guessing and Im not.i can do all those things, without rolling around on the floor and hoppin and hollering and running around looking like im possessed.
No what it boils down to is you ignored everything I said.IOWLBNIF said:Which is what it boils down to.
I believe there are dead churches for people who want that kind of chritianity, and there are churches alive in the spirit for those who want that kind of christianity, and all the other churches that are inbewteen are for those who are inbetween those 2 extremes. Dead church services would drive people like me out of the building.IOWLBNIF said:What if someone wanting to know the Lord walked into your church, you would drive them away by your ridiculousness for they would think your possessed.
the only evidence you've given is that you don't like it. Nothing in the bible condemns it.IOWLBNIF said:Getting "drunk in the Spirit" how you understand it, is in err
I didn't say they were the same, you aren't reading what I've said.IOWLBNIF said:being filled and drunk are completely different
like i said, and you ignored previously, your idea of order is stocism, my idea of order is there is a time and place to praise the lord in the dance with all your might and ability, and a time to listen to the sermon, and a time to talk chit chat with your neighbor in thechurch, that is order.IOWLBINIF said:one can be filled, and still have order about them, and wont be a put off to lost person coming into the church
Inever said you don't sing, in fact I said you probably sing a few songs at church service , like most christians do.If what you do is what those videos present
then you a wrong my friend.
you assume i dont sing to Lord.
No, I know that most all christians are plagued with stocism from my own 40 year experience with christians of various theological opinions. And your rejection of drunk in the spirit on the grounds of order is wrong, because those who get drunk in the spirit don't do it out of order, they do it at the proper time. The only real reason you reject it is cause it flys against the stocism of christianity, imo.IOWLBNIF said:So because you assume, you think im talking about stoicism.
I gave you the scriptures, the video you posted dealt with one of those scriptures, you're entitled to your interpretation, which i beleive is wrong, and I'm entitled to mine which my own personal experience, something you don't have, lines up with it.IOWLBNIF said:like a "sloppyy drunk"..............stop mixing something that is unholy and sinful, to something that is HOly and without sin. what dont you understand
drunkenness is a sin. therefore when you say your "drunk" in the spirit, you are saying that something that is holy, is unholy
The bible says to praise the Lord in the round dance, the b ible says david danced before the lord with all his might,(which would include his abilities as well), the bible says to be baptised in the Holy spirit. You don't do those things. those things lead one to being drunk in the spirit. you didn't address my accusation that the church is plagued with stocism. that being drunk in the spirit flys in the face of stocism. just as dancing before the Lord does, and that's the real reason people reject dancing, baptism of the holy spirit, shouting for joy, leaping for joy, laughing in the spirit, drunk in the spirit, etc.IOWLBNIF said:what exactly didnt i address, that you accuse me of overlooking. Give me a specific and i will answer it.