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.
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.
Well, I'm skeptical and seek to be mature enough and don't take things at face value either and they are subject to my own church leaders. But that goes back to the same argument, we both say we've "got it" and yet there is no real difference between our churches except you exclude me and I don't exclude you. So yeah, I think you're pulling false equivalence, I'm not teaching tarot but I'm teaching God has another billion sincere believers than you think, give or take, so it's a pretty big deal. Maybe those billion are virtually all wrong, but they exist and demand resolution. And when I investigated and asked why the division, my mind discovered that there is no difference among works in Christendom except that those that fail are demonstrated by God to have lost the plot, and those that continue have not been so demonstrated yet. Then my spirit was confirmed in the conclusion that the Lord uses all of them in their different strengths and imperfections (body parts) even as Rev. 2-3 shows they're all enemy-infiltrated. And so I stopped judging others who preach Jesus sincerely, unless they are going against the classic creeds (which filioque doesn't, it's just an add that you didn't like). And yet that comes from my spirit testing God's spirit so you go back to suspicion. I don't mind at all that you want to be so skeptical that you miss out on something God may or may not be doing; that's for your protection. I pursued the evidence that God is at work even among people who don't use that much protection, and I've been blessed for it.