Is your religious life based on tradition taught or spiritual encounter?

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Is your religious life based on tradition taught or spiritual encounter?
 
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A combination of tradition, spiritual encounter and spiritual reading. Lots of prayer.
 
I agree, Michael16!

Spiritual encounter, alone, is insufficient. Evil spirits have the ability to manipulate the heart and the mind. They even exhibit a certain familiarity with Holy Scripture, which they can distort, to mislead a targeted human.

A spiritual impulse or inspiration should be carefully examined to determine if it is congruent with Holy Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, before it is acted upon. Counsel with a trusted Priest may also be helpful in clarifying the nature of spiritual experiences.

1 John 4; 1-3

Testing the Spirits

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming; and now it is already in the world. …

John, here seems to be addressing the problem of “spirit-filled” false prophets (cult leaders), but the issue of all humans potentially facing the deceptive (name removed by moderator)ut of evil spirits remains a universal problem.
 
Hear, Hear! Each spiritual encounter I have, I always check with Scripture to see if it lines up right and Che k with a priest.
 
Both. They reinforce one another. When skepticism strikes me, as it often does, my life changing encounter with the Living God reminds me of who God is, who I really am, and what God calls me to do.
And that helps me accept the content of the faith through trust.
 
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Both. If you grew up in a religious family, you learned the tradition and then started having the spiritual encounter as a natural occurrence.

If you didn’t grow up in a religious family, then you might need the spiritual encounter to get your attention so you’d bother learning and following the traditions.
 
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Is your religious life based on tradition taught or spiritual encounter?
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Must it be one or the other? It seems you’ve positioned this in a binary fashion, when in fact it is the opposite.
 
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