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	<title>Comments on: Apostolic Annoying</title>
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		<title>By: Frequent Commenter Ken</title>
		<link>http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2009/10/31/apostolic-annoying/comment-page-1/#comment-9554</link>
		<dc:creator>Frequent Commenter Ken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;What’s with the eerie looking artwork of that lion?&lt;/i&gt;

It looks like a crossbreed of Aslan with Hel (Norse goddess of the dead). 

&lt;i&gt;I sometimes think that the idea of there even being a “next level” with God is at best a diversion and at worst a deceptive falsehood.&lt;/i&gt; -- MessengerBoy

C.S.Lewis has an essay somewhere titled &quot;The Lure of the Inner Ring&quot;, about the one-upmanship of belonging to The Group Within A Group Who REALLY Run Everything.  The essence of Gnosticism; Our Little Exclusive Club of Enlightened.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>What’s with the eerie looking artwork of that lion?</i></p>
<p>It looks like a crossbreed of Aslan with Hel (Norse goddess of the dead). </p>
<p><i>I sometimes think that the idea of there even being a “next level” with God is at best a diversion and at worst a deceptive falsehood.</i> &#8212; MessengerBoy</p>
<p>C.S.Lewis has an essay somewhere titled &#8220;The Lure of the Inner Ring&#8221;, about the one-upmanship of belonging to The Group Within A Group Who REALLY Run Everything.  The essence of Gnosticism; Our Little Exclusive Club of Enlightened.</p>
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		<title>By: MessengerBoy</title>
		<link>http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2009/10/31/apostolic-annoying/comment-page-1/#comment-9549</link>
		<dc:creator>MessengerBoy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stephen,

I sometimes think that the idea of there even being a &quot;next level&quot; with God is at best a diversion and at worst a deceptive falsehood. What it really does is separate us from each other, because it makes us believe that some of are &quot;more special&quot; than others. I don&#039;t think that&#039;s the way God planned it. The idea of levels with God smacks of self-righteousness to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stephen,</p>
<p>I sometimes think that the idea of there even being a &#8220;next level&#8221; with God is at best a diversion and at worst a deceptive falsehood. What it really does is separate us from each other, because it makes us believe that some of are &#8220;more special&#8221; than others. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the way God planned it. The idea of levels with God smacks of self-righteousness to me.</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen Worrell</title>
		<link>http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2009/10/31/apostolic-annoying/comment-page-1/#comment-9547</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Worrell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We need to get this &quot;love thy neighbor&quot; thing down pat before we start launching out into what is called &quot;the deep&quot;.  For my money, love is the foundation, and the foundation IS the deepest part of the house.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We need to get this &#8220;love thy neighbor&#8221; thing down pat before we start launching out into what is called &#8220;the deep&#8221;.  For my money, love is the foundation, and the foundation IS the deepest part of the house.</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen Worrell</title>
		<link>http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2009/10/31/apostolic-annoying/comment-page-1/#comment-9546</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Worrell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I came up seeing people used that II Kings scripture, where Elisha asked for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah, and people would say &quot;God, give me a double portion of the Holy Ghost&quot;, but honestly, I&#039;ve never even met one person who remotely ACTED like a person who had a double portion of the Holy Ghost.

It&#039;s not that God can&#039;t do it.

I think it&#039;s just that people are unwilling to do what it takes to put themselves in that kind of position.

If a person theoretically had &quot;a double portion of the Holy Ghost&quot;, they&#039;d never draw attention to themselves, they&#039;d never prophesy out of order, they&#039;d never run around with a bunch of titles such as Bishop Prophet Pastor Evangelist Doctor Reverend Billy Lee Jones, they would never get offended, they would never hurt others with their words, etc.

I tell Charismatics [about the &quot;double portion&quot;] the same thing I tell Catholics about the Apocrypha:

When I get straightened out with what I already have on my plate, and get it down pat pretty reasonable, then we can look at all the other stuff.  I&#039;ve got so much to master right now, that I&#039;m not worried about next-level Christianity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came up seeing people used that II Kings scripture, where Elisha asked for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah, and people would say &#8220;God, give me a double portion of the Holy Ghost&#8221;, but honestly, I&#8217;ve never even met one person who remotely ACTED like a person who had a double portion of the Holy Ghost.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that God can&#8217;t do it.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s just that people are unwilling to do what it takes to put themselves in that kind of position.</p>
<p>If a person theoretically had &#8220;a double portion of the Holy Ghost&#8221;, they&#8217;d never draw attention to themselves, they&#8217;d never prophesy out of order, they&#8217;d never run around with a bunch of titles such as Bishop Prophet Pastor Evangelist Doctor Reverend Billy Lee Jones, they would never get offended, they would never hurt others with their words, etc.</p>
<p>I tell Charismatics [about the "double portion"] the same thing I tell Catholics about the Apocrypha:</p>
<p>When I get straightened out with what I already have on my plate, and get it down pat pretty reasonable, then we can look at all the other stuff.  I&#8217;ve got so much to master right now, that I&#8217;m not worried about next-level Christianity.</p>
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		<title>By: admin</title>
		<link>http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2009/10/31/apostolic-annoying/comment-page-1/#comment-9545</link>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MB:

The more I think about what you have said. You are exactly right. The ones who love to push this &quot;double anointing&quot; stuff as a solution to those in suffering are the same ones who tell themselves that &quot;He is more than enough&quot;

astute point</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MB:</p>
<p>The more I think about what you have said. You are exactly right. The ones who love to push this &#8220;double anointing&#8221; stuff as a solution to those in suffering are the same ones who tell themselves that &#8220;He is more than enough&#8221;</p>
<p>astute point</p>
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		<title>By: MessengerBoy</title>
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		<dc:creator>MessengerBoy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I always wince at this &quot;double&quot; of something theology. Didn&#039;t Jesus say if we had faith as big as a mustard seed we could move a mountain. Why do we &quot;double&quot; anything from God? Of course, these are the same folks who say God is &quot;more than enough.&quot; It&#039;s really pretty funny and sad all at the same time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I always wince at this &#8220;double&#8221; of something theology. Didn&#8217;t Jesus say if we had faith as big as a mustard seed we could move a mountain. Why do we &#8220;double&#8221; anything from God? Of course, these are the same folks who say God is &#8220;more than enough.&#8221; It&#8217;s really pretty funny and sad all at the same time.</p>
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		<title>By: admin</title>
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		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I guess so - would you like the super-size it for $5000.00 more?

LOL!!!!! j/k</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess so &#8211; would you like the super-size it for $5000.00 more?</p>
<p>LOL!!!!! j/k</p>
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		<title>By: Diane R.</title>
		<link>http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2009/10/31/apostolic-annoying/comment-page-1/#comment-9542</link>
		<dc:creator>Diane R.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The &quot;Double Anointing&quot; huh?  What&#039;s next--the &quot;Triple Anointing&quot;?.....:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;Double Anointing&#8221; huh?  What&#8217;s next&#8211;the &#8220;Triple Anointing&#8221;?&#8230;..:)</p>
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