tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10737238.post112549554173994230..comments2024-03-22T03:10:08.766-05:00Comments on The Good Raised Up: Qualities of the Inner Light:Two other Friends writeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10737238.post-1125616256559862902005-09-01T18:10:00.000-05:002005-09-01T18:10:00.000-05:00Thanks for this comment, Paul, and for the testimo...Thanks for this comment, Paul, and for the testimony for the importance of Caldwell's words. <BR/><BR/>I appreciate the honesty with which you write, that you cannot speak of a personal nature of God (the Light) with any conviction, because you have not yet been a "firsthand witness" to that experience. At least, not knowingly (wink). <BR/><BR/>Blessings,<BR/>LizLiz Opphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09802348848085930901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10737238.post-1125504287993651472005-08-31T11:04:00.000-05:002005-08-31T11:04:00.000-05:00I have loved Caldwell's list of attributes of the ...I have loved Caldwell's list of attributes of the Light ever since I first saw it and have proposed it as the most succinct statement of the Quaker doctrine of the Inner Light available.<BR/><BR/>I can also say that I have personally experienced each of them to be true, with the possible exception of the first: The Light is Personal. <BR/><BR/>In all honesty, I find myself <I>wanting</I> to believe rather than <I>knowing</I> that this is true. <BR/><BR/>I <I>want</I> to believe in a "personal" God for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that it would integrate my childhood faith with my current life.<BR/><BR/>But I also take seriously the witness of those who have experienced the Light as the God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob & Sarah, and find that the more I listen to them the more I'm convinced that they must be true. In other words, those who have experienced the Light as Personal seem to me to have a more powerful, authentic witness than those who claim it is impersonal, a concept, an undifferentiated power or "life force."<BR/><BR/>But I can't yet be a firsthand witness to that fact myself.Paul Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03483071863453025925noreply@blogger.com