Know what I'm curious about? There are 5 people who poll as unsure about MAD. That's great, so a thread that the MAD experts (myself excluded) could answer whatever questions they may want to ask would be nice, if it could be worked out. By that I mean, it would HAVE to exclude the usual troll spam from the usual suspects whose minds are made up...and that'd be the trick. Would have to involve serious moderation. Is it possible?
I'd move "expert" be left out of the equation.
Several times throughout my own A9D path, I've shared a thing with others that ended helping them update and or refine their own A9D understanding of a thing.
This; even though far and away more often than not, they have been able to help me update my own understanding on one thing or another way more than I have ever been able to keep up with.
Were they to consider themselves an expert, or were I, that would not be possible.
I suspect such a stumbling block is proven as in the way, on here every day.
We have to be able to learn from anyone. O'Hair was ever able to, for example.
It is how he ended up Mid-Acts...
One example, that comes to mind: once, he was asked to deliver a teaching on his understanding that signs and wonders were over.
Afterwards, a Pentecostal preacher approached the great man, and informed him he'd been fully persuaded in his own mind by O'Hair's three major points.
Some years later, O'Hair and that former Pentecostal preacher meet.
He relates to O'Hair that he had come to see through those very three points O'Hair had taught on some years earlier, that they also pointed to the cessation of the water ritual.
At first, O'Hair took issue with that.
Until the man challenged O'Hair asking him whether O'Hair was truly a Berean or not....
That night, O'Hair stays up all night; his nose in Scripture.
By dawn, he too has come to the conviction that water baptism is out.
In this, there is something else of great importance - the issue of who actually founded what, together with the moral that is actually its lesson.
That what is really the truth behind such a founding is the very process the Apostle Paul wrote would allow for such supposed "founding..."
The "founding" of a thing is the result of those various aspects it is comprised of, having come together at some point.
The Apostle Paul wrote of a process of perfecting the saints unto that work by which the edifying of one another; the building up of another in the sound understanding of more and more, is brought about.
As well as, unto what intended end.
The brother might well have been agreeing with poet, John Donne's "No man is an island..."
That grace by which O'Hair had been able to build that brother up in the form of sound words if but a just a little.
And this same grace by which that brother had then been able not only to grow in, but even further than O'Hair!
The very grace by which he had then become able to return that same grace to O'Hair, in turn.
The word of Christ, not bound from its intended effectual working in the measure of every part, when the effort made is that of each individual looking within through the Word, as to what each is doing to allow its free coarse...
Ephesians 4's:
13. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
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But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
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From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of
the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
In this, I'd rather the attitude on here be more one of simply sharing with one another out of each's excitement and curiosity about how the understanding of the Scripture works this side of that which is perfect: the full revelation of the Mystery in written form.
Last thing we need is "another expert."
But I suspect that is what you meant, Musti, my brother; your disdain with supposed "experts" is not only often obvious, but one I share.
