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Differentiating between the human and the divine

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Announcements › Forums › Truth – January 28th, 2018 › Differentiating between the human and the divine

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  • January 23, 2018 at 12:20 pm #5845
    JPalmer
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    4. I Kings 18
    24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
    38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
    39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.

    This reminded me of the following, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts, by Gilbert Carpenter:

    Many times when a thought seems to come from God, it may come from the human mind. When one places himself in position of listening for God’s voice, he opens himself to the possibility of being influenced by the thoughts of others. Hence one must watch, and learn to differentiate between the human suggestion and the divine impartation. Mrs. Eddy indicates that if she took time enough to demonstrate, she could not be misled by suggestion. The reason for this is that demonstration continued long enough, will surely silence the voice of suggestion, and leave God’s voice alone holding the field. When Elijah had his contest with the priests of Baal, his demonstration proved to be on a higher plane than that of Moses, because the latter did not prevent the magicians of Egypt from giving exhibitions of their powers to match his, up to a certain point. Elijah, however, not only caused fire to come down from heaven, but prevented the priests from bringing forth phenomona of any sort. Mrs. Eddy never regarded the demonstration of hearing God’s voice completed, until it had silenced any suggestions claiming to come from mortal mind.

    I am grateful to this church for showing how to “differentiate between the human suggestion and the divine impartation” by giving the opportunity to demonstrate with practitioner support. Learning how to live Christian Science is a wonderful blessing, and the way that we can “apprentice” here really feels right to me. Thank you for all that this church does!

    January 23, 2018 at 6:49 pm #5846
    chardelle
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    Thank you! I especially like …..”demonstration continued long enough, will surely silence the voice of suggestion, and leave God’s voice alone holding the field.” I think this gives great hope and encouragement to hang on and go forth with demonstrating the truths we have learned about Christian Science as taught here at Plainfield Church , Independent. Thank you God, Christ Jesus, and Mrs. Eddy!

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