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Originally Posted by Evangelical
This is also a reason why we call on the Lord a number of times. Maybe a person can fake call the Lord Jesus one or two times, but 10 or 20 times I am doubtful. If we follow Jo S's suggestion that we should not call on the Lord multiple times this would make it easier for fake callers to fool everyone.
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Quantity probably cannot assure quality. BTW, I think WL incorrectly did a lot of his logic backwards. I have no doubt that when someone is in the spirit, he/she can (not must) call on the Lord. WL reversed the cause and consequence saying that calling on the Lord can help us to be in the spirit.
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Like any test it only serves to confirm a certain thing. It cannot be used, for example, to confirm that a Jehovah Witnesses teaching is correct just because they can call on the Lord. As I explained before it is not for discerning teaching but testing the spirit.
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Seems you agree the tests aren't perfect. Then, what is needed to more surely discern whether someone is in the spirit, and equally if not more importantly, that someone is acting according to the spirit and not following wrong teachings?
I hope you would agree there is no simple way to discern all these things. You mentioned about the scripture but scripture is up to different interpretations (otherwise, we won't have so much debate in this forum). That's why I proposed we need both the Spirit and the scripture. The Spirit/anointing plays a role in our discernment of truth and lie as part of the "all things" besides affirming Christ is our Lord and He came in flesh.
I pray that you would open your heart to the Lord to examine and re-examine everything you got from WL's teachings and everything you are so sure about, with the help from the Spirit and all of the scripture. I keep reminding myself to do the same as well.
I can testify I have learned so much more in the past few years when I closely examine the potential errors in the HWMR materials as I stayed in the LC - It actually helped me to undo many of the incorrect teachings I learned previously from WL/LSM. But then this is very personal experience and may be of little interest to you.
1 Thes 5:19-22 Do not quench the Spirit; Do not despise prophecies, But prove all things. Hold fast to what is good; Abstain from every kind of evil.