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Originally Posted by Jared104 I will try to be careful about how I reply since I have been told not to argue in favor of the phenomenon known as the Toronto blessing.
Perhaps, some Charismatics do experience a deeper sort of laughter that arises from the study of scripture.
A few people have already said that they don't have a problem with Spurgeon's experience since it is brought on because of something that is read in the scripture. This has happened to me a couple of times. Not as a normal thing, but it has happened two or three times, maybe.
For instance, I was reading the following scripture and had this experience:
Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:1-6 | Moderator Voice on:
It is not entirely clear that you are trying to be careful with this post. Could you please clarify that you are not positing a supernatural "laughter" experience? Do you mean this, or do you merely mean that there are funny things in Scripture? |
I'm not entirely sure that I understand the question, but I will try to answer anyway.
I would understand my experience to be a partial fulfillment of the text. (Of course not the only fulfillment because that would be absurd.)
What I mean is this:
When Sarah says:
"God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."
I felt like what I was experiencing was exactly what was foretold in the afore-mentioned passage. It did not say that only those who were contemporaneously connected to Sarah would laugh, but simply anyone who hears about it.
Perhaps my understanding of the passage is incorrect. I would be perfectly willing for someone to disprove my experience. After all, experience is subjective.