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Originally Posted by OBW
You are the one that made an assertion about there being this implication of experience that we should be going after. I fail to see the directive to have "experiences of Christ" in the way that is being suggested. If it is my lack of reality, then you should be able to show me where I am missing the dots. Not liking the question does not make it unreal.
And having an analogy does not make it relevant. I fell for too many "it's like this" stories in the LCM. You need to make it real. The analogy does not make anything real. It provides a way to explain what is real. You still need to establish that it is real before the analogy is useful.
And so the question stands.
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"Know" in the biblical sense means personal knowledge. Look up the Greek. Personal knowledge without experience is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we need experience.
It's not that I don't like the question. I just don't like being told I didn't make a case when it's more likely either you didn't understand it or you didn't like it. I've noticed when you don't like the point someone is making you tend to accuse them of not having made it well. It's sort of your fall-back argument of choice. It's patronizing and it gets old.
Instead of accusing "you didn't make your case" why not just (occasionally) admit "I don't understand?" I admit often that I don't understand you. I don't understand half of what you write and I'm not too proud to admit it. A little humility goes a long way.