4.11 - Forms of religious experience
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- 4.11 - Forms of religious experience
- Conversions
- An occasion or an event that causes a person to adopt a belief in God
- Will have a new sense of direction in life with God in the centre
- May cause convert to change behaviour / decisions they make
- Mystical experience
- An overwhelming awareness of the presence of God, leading to the feelings of awe and wonder
- No doubt God is real
- C's claim happen today, often when meditating. Bring sense of faith but no further reveal of God's existence
- Visions
- During a vision, claim to see something supernatural. Invisible to everyone else
- Some claim accompanied by voices as a message
- Charismatic and ecstatic experiences
- A period of intense religious feeling. Less aware of the world. May enter trance-like state and have visions
- Majority experienced when they are worshipping
- Charismatic C churches use "slain in the spirit" to describe experience. Usually happens when minister puts hands on forehead and they fall back
- Disagreement if genuine acts of God. Some C's argue that nowhere in the Bible does anyone put hands on someone, allowing HS to come through and person falls over
- Pentecostalists and Glossolalia
- Based on coming of HS to 12 apostles during 1st Pentecost of J's ascension. Became more confident in preaching , carry out healings and spoke new languages
- Seek to return original roots of C. Examples: Assemblies of God and Vineyard churches
- Emphasises work of HS and believers direct experience of presence of God
- Believe in baptism in the HS. Not the same as baptism in water, but experience which believer gives control of themselves to the HS
- Through experiences of God, b equipped with the gifts of the S. Include prophecy, healing and speaking in tongues
- Worship and the sacraments
- Eucharist
- Most celebrate, but b they experience the presence of God in the service differently
- RCC/Orthodox teach belief in transubstantiation. Through this practice believe become united with Christ
- CoE teach consubstantiation
- Protestant (Eg, Baptist Church) entirely symbolic. Act of remembrance of J's death and resurrecton
- The Sacrament of Penace
- RCC: involve confession of sin to priest. Priest provides absolution so sins are forgiven. Enables them to draw close to God and relieve of guilt
- Non-confist and Anglican churches: don't teach confession is a sacrament. Argue Bible teaches priesthood. B every C can go directly before God in prayer and confess sins
- When worship, b praising God and he is able to communicate with them in some way
- Eucharist
- Conversions
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