Showing posts with label A.W Tozer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A.W Tozer. Show all posts

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Undercover Agnostic (Update 25): A.W. Tozer's Ideas on the Holy Spirit

I have written before in this series about the Sunday School  books from Lifeway that many Southern Baptist churches, including the one that I am undercover in, are so fond of. They are quarterly workbooks with studies based off of the text of two books from popular ministers and theologians, both past and present.

Right now, we're at the end of the fall quarter, and the last section of the book is from Mystery of the Holy Spirit by theologian A.W Tozer, who died in 1963. Some of his books are considered classics in the world of theology.

I noticed some passages from the last week of the study sections that seemed rather interesting to me, and I wanted to know what the people out there in the blog audience thought of them.

So, instead of me rambling on and on (which you did know what you were getting into, after all, the blog is titled Ramblings of Sheldon ;) ), I'll let A.W Tozer speak for himself:

His comments on understanding the Holy Spirit:
I wish all church people might hear this. that the realm of the Spirit is closed to the intellect. It is not difficult to understand why. You see the spirit is the organ by which we aprehend divine things, and the human spirit is dead because of sin. Therefore the human intellect is not the organ by which we apprehend divine things.