Critical Issues Commentary | Intercessory Prayer by Dutch Sheets, Part 43 – Biblical Revelation Originates at Conversion @CICministry | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
Dutch Sheets cites Acts 26:18 to support his claim that biblical revelation originates from one’s own heart. Bob and Jessica show that this passage does not support Sheets’ claim. In the Old Testament the “heart” was the whole person alienated from God. The whole person is lost, and the whole person is redeemed. They also address Sheets teaching on “revelation knowledge,” which Sheets says is a process. Bob explains that revelation happens at conversion, not through a process. We must understand the difference between meaning and significance. Unbelievers can know meaning, but at conversion we understand significance. The meaning of Scripture doesn’t change, but when we are born again we understand the significance and live accordingly.
This is part 43 of a critique of Intercessory Prayer by Dutch Sheets, Bethany House, 1996.
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Dutch Sheets cites Acts 26:18 to support his claim that biblical revelation originates from one’s own heart. Bob and Jessica show that this passage does not support Sheets’ claim. In the Old Testament the “heart” was the whole person alienated from God. The whole person is lost, and the whole person is redeemed. They also address Sheets teaching on “revelation knowledge,” which Sheets says is a process. Bob explains that revelation happens at conversion, not through a process. We must understand the difference between meaning and significance. Unbelievers can know meaning, but at conversion we understand significance. The meaning of Scripture doesn’t change, but when we are born again we understand the significance and live accordingly.
This is part 43 of a critique of Intercessory Prayer by Dutch Sheets, Bethany House, 1996.
Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
