rebekah
08-03-2002, 04:31 AM
Acts 16:16 “Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.”
I need help in understanding this was use for a debunking that John was getting his ability from some other source than god. (They were not questioning his accuracy or saying that he uses trickery of any sort.)
The Full story is Acts 16:16-18 “Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune telling. This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “these men are servants of the most high god, who are telling you the way to be saved.” She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the sprit, “in the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her” At that moment the spirit left her.”
Ok Paul calls the spirit using the lord’s name AFTER the girl has been announcing to people that Paul and his companions that they could tell them the Good News, what they had been told to spread. Way was Paul so troubled, because the girl told fortune or that her masters were making money off of it? What does this story mean?
Why did the debunkers feel comfortable enough to use the context of the verse? What were they trying to hide? How did they expect this to explain why John source is not heaven based?
I need help in understanding this was use for a debunking that John was getting his ability from some other source than god. (They were not questioning his accuracy or saying that he uses trickery of any sort.)
The Full story is Acts 16:16-18 “Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune telling. This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “these men are servants of the most high god, who are telling you the way to be saved.” She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the sprit, “in the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her” At that moment the spirit left her.”
Ok Paul calls the spirit using the lord’s name AFTER the girl has been announcing to people that Paul and his companions that they could tell them the Good News, what they had been told to spread. Way was Paul so troubled, because the girl told fortune or that her masters were making money off of it? What does this story mean?
Why did the debunkers feel comfortable enough to use the context of the verse? What were they trying to hide? How did they expect this to explain why John source is not heaven based?