Originally posted by KellyJay
You are the one presenting Pentecostalism has caused her to act that way,
I'm trying to get you to tell me 'what part of being a Pentecostal' was it
that caused her to act that way! For me it seems to be the people she is
now hanging around with, you are suggesting simply being Pentecostal
is what is causing her to act that way! They are two different t ...[text shortened]... n
too, but the claim does not mean all Democrats or Republicans act a certain
way.
Kelly
She is a pentacostal. She attributes all her decisions to what she describes as her direct personal experience of God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. She cites the will of God, the will of Jesus and the will of the Holy Spirit at all times. She did not do this when she was a Catholic.
Her embrace of pentacostalism has, in her mind and in her deeds, empowered her to use the spiritual power she feels her conversion has invested in her to direct her life, her interpersonal realtionships and her business decisions. She is not in the slightest bit embarrassed or uncertain about anything that has happened. She is utterly sincere. She is actively trying to recruit others now.
She is outwardly completely sane, and perfectly able to explain how she came about this transformation of her life through faith in Jesus and the importance of the ecstatic religious experience pentacostalism has given her. She is not hysterical, except when she's pretending to be filled with the Holy Spirit and she emits incomprehensible speech in an imaginary language, in a kind of trance state, seemingly an episode of religious ecstasy, or perhaps (if she really believes it's happening) schizophrenia. She believes emphatically that her meaningless glossolalia is expressing the mysteries of God to those around her - a key tenet of pentacostalism.
She is a pentacostal. A Fact is a fact. Her deeds are driven by her faith. Not all pentacostals are the same as her (although I believe they all are afflicted by more or less the same mental condition). You don't care too much for what she's doing: Does this mean - to you - that she isn't a pentacostal?
I never said all pentacostals are the same. Is this your only line of defence for this particular pentacostal person?