- The shootings at Virginia Tec.h this past Spring.
- Any "natural disaster"
- An ability to speak (and translate) a language fluently with less than a semester of formal study.
- Someone saying that they are recieving dreams/visions.
- Someone mentioning demonic affliction/possesion of an individual.
If I were to be honest I would say that my response to all of these would at best be suspect more likely skeptical. I would have explained away the VaTech shootings as a guy who just imigrated to a new land and did not assimilate well, a social outcast etc...Natural disasters can easily be explained away naturally; and as far as the last three I would be skeptical at best.
But ought that be the case? Recently I have come across all of these situations and have realized that all certainly have a biblical precedent. (I have some friend who explained the VaTech shootings as a man who was demonically influenced...they could think of no other reason for such things...they view "natural disasters" as God doing his work to judge some and bless others). Just currious how you all view these things.
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Pull out your Theology 1 syllabus from TMC or TMS and you'll see that we were trained that rationalism is a faulty source of theology because it:
1. Denies the depravity of the mind
2. Makes the human mind virtually omniscient
3. Denies the incomprehensibility of God
But isn't rationalism the very thing we are guilty of when we deny the supernatural work of God? We in essence are just as guilty as those we condemn for deriving their theology from experience.
It's all well & good to have institutions we grew up in teach us on how to view the Supernatural. But when instances, like the ones you are describing, become personal experience/confrontation in the face of what we've been taught- we are left with no category for the experience. Because clearly it goes against what we were taught in school, but at the same time to deny such an instance claims a superiority of knowlegde & an omniscience (like jeff said) that we cannot claim.
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