Midgie wrote:
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. "
~ Ezekiel 36:26

God bless you

Hello, Midgie.

Please. All religious traditions can cite scripture to support an assertion of personal transformation and empowerment. Definitions such as this are typical of the ad hoc/ex post facto reasoning I referenced in my discussion with Had2. Regardless, the world is quite literally replete with individuals who experience transformation through a variety of means. Buddhists, Hindu, Jainists, Muslims, humanists, atheists, the list goes on. 

In this particular case, there is a party from two competing mainline Christian denominations; Protestant and Catholic. Both claim to have exclusive access to the transformative power which you reference, and deny the access of the other. However, both exhibit very similar "post-transformation" behavioral characteristics. In accordance with the postdiction employed, we can only look back through the behavior to the time of the experience to verify, yes?  


  

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