Latter Rain, Kingdom Now, & the Lord's Recovery

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by Jo S

This is exactly what appealing to authority is. My point is I'd rather hear your own thoughts, the thoughts that stay with you according to your own study of scripture rather than someone else's views. Otherwise it all seems a bit too impersonal if you know what I mean. As a Christian, scholars aren't an authority for me. If you claim to be a Christian, Christ should be your only teacher. You should not look to any man to dictate truth for you.

Perhaps you could specify how many "I's" you would like me to use in my post, so I can get the balance of personal/impersonal right? How many ? 10, 20? 1? Unless you are willing to consult scholarly sources then aren't you just being willfully ignorant? I don't call that being "taught by Christ" I call that willful ignorance. By definition: Willful ignorance is the state and practice of ignoring any sensory input that appears to contradict one's inner model of reality. So the "Christ" that you say is teaching you is probably just your own inner model of reality. Instead, Christ's teaching comes by improving our own inner models of reality with external evidence. This is why God gifted the church with teachers, and to say "Christ should be your only teacher" is also to deny the role of parents as teachers in a family.