Men Baptized In The Holy Spirit

LISTING #4.  RELEVANT TO YOU - UNSEEN?
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"The identity of the experience of illumination and glorification among those gifted does not necessarily entail identity of doctrinal expression, especially when those gifted are geographically separated for extended periods of time.[3]"
      The Bible has nearly 250 appellations, names, and descriptors to help reveal to us our Uncreated Deity. If every one of these names are transcended by our Triune Deity, how is it possible for one who has had a face to face encounter with Him to adequately describe it?

"Neither illumination nor glorification can be institutionalized.[4]"
      Multiple men baptized in the Holy Spirit have had revealed to them the Son of God in the glory of the Father from the inside out. Because our Triune Deity takes up residence in man in this manner and man resides in Him by the same device (heart), it is well said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

"Pentecost is never surpassed and is continuously operative in illumination and glorification.[5]"
      There is a theoretical presupposition in human understanding that nearly everything develops and evolves as time goes forward. This seriously undermines an understanding of true theology when the wisest of this world begin to handle the writings of the Patriarchs, Apostles, and Prophets of the Church. Philosophical speculation and reasonings about theology identify such scholars as outside the experience of that which they study and comment upon.

"Conceptual and linguistic development (in Church history) is not a sign of deeper understanding; because the highest understanding is participation in glorification - which transcends understanding.[1]"
      The appearance of various Church Fathers through time addressing different issues is not a development or progressive evolving of theological thought. They are rather windows in each generation into the highlights of those who took advantage of a continuing Pentecost. When Christ spoke of sending another comforter, then He also said, 'and we will come to him and take up residence with him'.

[Top conclusion, #4] "One can readily discern from the relationship between illumination and glorification or dogma and mystery that much latitude exists for the development of the conceptual and linguistic means used to assist in preparing one to receive the gift of unceasing prayer and inner faith in order to become a temple of the Holy Spirit and a member of the Body of Christ.[2]"
      The Goal of becoming a temple and being united with Christ's temple (body) is subjectively the same as receiving and practicing unceasing prayer and inner faith. The conceptual presentation and linguistic variation of those already successfully helping others reach the Goal is of little consequence and yet understandable.  The problems begin when the tried and true methods that bring verifiable results are forsaken.

Separation from diagnosis and therapy "has happened to large segments of synodical churches and for extended periods of time when traditional or patristic monasticism has or had for a time been suppressed or shunted off to a siding.[3]"
      When the sickness of heart stands, without the practice of diagnosis-therapy even being applied anymore, new theories rise up to account for the institution which now has become a shell of what it once was. Any tradition and that which points to it, if missing the cure, is not the tradition of true glory.   
   
[Top conclusion, #3] "Both faith, prayer, theology, and dogma on the one hand and sacraments and liturgy on the other have been separated from the diagnosis and therapy of the maladies of the noetic faculty" outside the Orthodox (true glory) tradition[4].
      Most people on the planet do not have a clue as to the foundation of Christian worship services and rituals. And again those who have seen faith, prayer, theology, and dogma will never discover what they are in terms of being the result of something else, and what that something is.
   
"Sacraments and liturgy cannot be separated from the purification and illumination of the noetic faculty (and also be effective), nor can faith, prayer, theology, and dogma be separated from the empirical verification of the unceasing prayer of the Holy Spirit in the heart and from glorification.[5]"
      Certain rituals and religious activities are hollow when the core purpose has been long gone and forgotten.

"Diagnosis and therapy cannot be reduced to ceremonial acts which produce no attestable restoration of health.[1]"
      Just copying the ceremonial acts of others would be like taking medicine without knowing what the ailment was.  Sometimes the side-effects of a prescription are more dangerous than the cure.   

"Medicine cannot be separated from diagnosis and therapy" without dire consequences[2].
      Precisely because it takes time to verify theories through the experimentation of those who have gone before.
    
"Hypotheses and theories cannot be separated from the tradition of empirical verification" and still be called science[3].
      The science of sciences, the art of science, and the art of arts is theology. The true word on God has been not only identified and verified through time, but rather preserved. The true word on God is the law of faith, the truth of the Gospel. It is the single most cause that humans have (out of principle) given their lives for - when one considers that when soldiers give their lives it includes hire.



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[1-5]. John S. Romanides, Romanity.org