Is Jesus Christ the Lord and the God of yourself and of the universe?
Please answer YES with any testimony, or decline to answer. This is a question between action (YES vote) and inaction (no vote); a NO vote is the same as no vote and is technically unnecessary.
This poll methodology is recognized to be unscientific but is better than nothing. Thank you for your responses. I recognize that many distrust poll testimony and believe in other methods of individual or group activity. However, this is not a group action question but a question of individual experience, so it's not a matter of consensus but of collection of testimonies that need no consent or validation from anyone else.
You posting a generic poll on a forum is doing the work of the Holy Spirit? Did He tell you that personally? The Church doesn't need you to stand and show itself. It's there for you and we're the ones who need it to live and be saved. God doesn't need anyone or anything. You're not fooling anyone.
Of course it's not a need. Yes, the Spirit gives me intuitive impressions spiritually, I know there's an Orthodox name for that. And sometimes the Church asserting itself is the right thing to do. So that's a Yes.
Yes, it's called prelest aka spiritual delusion. You're neither a saint, nor a prophet so chances are you're not getting instructions by the Holy Spirit but by a demonic entity disguising itself as a being of light.
There are three options - it's either the above, schizophrenia or you're lying.
Funny how you judge prelest without approval from the Church acting communally .... Fourth option, here is the OCA talking about what I mean, but I don't see a special Orthodox vocab for it, it seems like a subset of theosis.
Lol. Is this how you think how Orthodoxy works? Like there needs to be a council to tell me if someone is wrong? Do I need a council to tell my neighbor that her tarot readings are idolatry? The Church is not a military corporation dude. The orthodox tradition is skeptical of any visions and voices and we're instructed not to take them on face value and to test them (if one is spiritually mature enough).
The OCA quote is directed to people within the Orthodox Church so it doesn't apply.
Yes, according to him:
the Lord is indicating through the announcement of Scored that I should diversify and make my own announcement