How should you determine truth? Should it come from experience or from doctrine? Now experience is important and it should not be ignored but it is not the foundation for truth, doctrine is. However, there are many people who form their opinions of truth on experience so they read books such as Don Piper's book, Ninety Minutes in Heaven, or whatever it is called and they believe that is truth but when you read Scriptures you see that Paul was very reluctant to talk about his experience of heaven. If he lived today he could have written a best seller and made the TV talk circuit.
Let us remember that Christianity is not right brained or left brained but it involves both doctrinal truth and experience. Let us make sure that we base our doctrine on the truth of Scripture and not on experience.
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