The Experience of Christ

[Cal]

aron,

I don't understand your whole reaction to my travel analogy. My point was that every specific thing we legitimately do as Christians is generally an experience of Christ. Therefore the Bible does tell us to experience Christ.

Saying we should experience Christ is like saying we should eat food. Obviously when you do eat you eat some specific items of food: meat, bread, fruit etc. But that doesn't imply that saying "we should eat food" is wrong or dangerous.

I mean, strictly speaking there is no food. There are just apples and dates and beef and tomatoes, etc. Therefore it's wrong to say we should eat food. That's what OBW's argument sounds like to me. It just sounds silly in the light of common sense.

Originally Posted by aron

To me, OBW is saying he doesn't want to eat the "experience of Christ" pudding being offered by WL, or whomever. He's not judging your pudding nor your eating. He just says there's no compelling reason for him to partake of it. It's just terminology and concepts.

Again, I apologize for speaking for someone else. That's what I get from his argument and it seems reasonable to me. But I may be off on a number of accounts here.

Well, I understand a reaction to Lee and urging caution about misinterpreting the concept of experiencing Christ. I get that. I don't get trying to stretch it into some kind of case that the Bible doesn't support the general idea of experiencing Christ. That's just being too cute by half. Actually more than half.