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Originally Posted by leastofthese
And how do you know He is divine? Or how do you know you’ve met the true Christ?
There are other herotical groups that claim to know the divine Christ through anointing.
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The genuine anointing can be discerned by applying the test of spirits:
1 John 4:2-3, 1 Cor 12:31, 1 John 4:15
These are the tests that John and Paul gave to the early Christians to be able to discern the spirits and the genuine anointing - and remember at this time Christianity as we know it today did not exist, and paganism/false Christs were more rife then that it is in our "secular Christian culture" today.
Anyone who wants to use other or non-biblical methods to discern because they think they know better are almost sure to reach the wrong conclusions. The categorical "10 ways to tell...." methods that you can find on the internet for trying to discern a good marriage partner, a good job, or even whether a pastor or church is genuine, are also non-biblical approaches and do not work because they do not consider what the mouth speaks from the heart.