tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35889031.post7559027061650409566..comments2023-11-05T00:58:55.352-07:00Comments on A Peculiar Prophet: Church on the Move: In the Power of the Holy SpiritWilliam H. Willimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002821401928222858noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35889031.post-76483767109860288172010-12-10T03:47:53.706-08:002010-12-10T03:47:53.706-08:00THE HOLY SPIRIT
Catholics certainly believe in th...<b>THE HOLY SPIRIT</b><br /><br />Catholics certainly believe in the individual's infilling with the <b>Holy Spirit,</b> but we hold this in balance with the equally important truth that the Church herself is inspired and filled and guided by the <b>Holy Spirit.</b> <br /><br />The Church is the Body of Christ on earth, and as such is a living, moving, breathing, Spirit filled organism--against which the gates of hell will never prevail. <br /><br />It is this <b>Spirit filled Church</b> which provides the balance and ballast for our own individual experience of the infilling of the <b>Holy Spirit.</b> <br /><br />It is the <b>Spirit-filled Church</b> which provides the correction and qualification of our claims. It is the <b>Spirit-filled Church</b> which validates God's guidance in our lives and it is the <b>Spirit</b> filled lives of the saints, the teaching of the Church and the liturgy of the Church which deepen, broaden, complete and sacramentally seal the personal infilling of the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />The <b>Holy Spirit</b> will not be subject to human reason. This is the fundamental problem with Protestantism. The intellect becomes one’s compass for truth, instead of the <b>Living Voice of the Holy Ghost.</b> <br /><br />The proper use of reason is to <b>believe in and serve the Divine Revelation revealed by the <b>Holy Ghost</b> in the Church,</b> not to criticize what is revealed endlessly until you satisfy your intellect. <br /><br />The intellect is only perfected after it has <b>accepted the divine truths that God reveals to it.</b>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.com