is slaying in spirit is right acccording to Bible????

Answer 1

The term "slain in the Spirit" comes from the Second Great Awakening during which scores of people would during church and camp meetings, fall to the ground under a tremendous sense of the Spirit's power. Observers described the scene as similar to a battlefield in which men had been slain in battle. Many leaders such as Charles Finney and Peter Cartwright described this in their writings. The phenomenon did not begin with the Second Great Awakening, however. It was also common in the First Great Awakening and is recorded in the writings of people such as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and John Wesley. Jonathan Edwards described this falling (In his work "Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God") as people simply being overwhelmed by God's glorious presence. Scriptural support for falling under the Spirit’s power is often found in 2 Chronicles 5:13-14, Matthew 28:1-4, and Acts 9:3-6. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is easy to counterfeit with the power of suggestion or excitement. The participants in the Toronto "outpouring" for example, were instructed by worship leaders to lay on the floor and "soak." I preached at one church where people had fallen all over the front of the sanctuary. When it came time to preach I commented that those laying on the ground would not bother us and that I was going to preach. All of the people on the ground immediately got up. They were obviously not overwhelmed by God's power to the point of losing bodily strength. Falling to the ground was for them more of a learned response to any sense of God's presence. I maintain, as did Edwards that such things as people falling under the power is not to be considered a mark of superior spirituality and it is not necessarily a mark of false spirituality. I think the phenomenon is not unscriptural but neither do I think Scripture tells us to look for, seek, or emphasize the experience.

Answer 2

Question: "Is being slain in the Spirit biblical?”



Answer: The idea of being “slain in the Spirit” is when a minister lays hands on someone, and that person collapses to the floor, supposedly being overcome in the power of the Spirit. Those who practice "slaying in the Spirit" use Bible passages that talk about people becoming "as dead" (Revelation 1:17) or of falling upon their faces (Ezekiel 1:28; Daniel 8:17-18; Daniel 10:7-9). However, there are a number of contrasts between this biblical "falling on one's face" and the practice of "being slain in the Spirit."

1. The biblical falling down was a result of a person's reaction to what he saw in a vision or that was beyond ordinary happenings, such as at the transfiguration of Christ (Matthew 17:6). In the unbiblical practice of "being slain," the person responds to another’s "touch" or to the motion of the speaker's arm.

2. The biblical instances were few and far between, such that they occurred only rarely in the lives of but a few. In the "being slain" phenomenon, falling down is a weekly event in their churches and an experience that happens to many.

3. In the biblical instances, the people fall upon their faces in awe at either what they see or Whom they see. In the "slain in the Spirit" counterfeit, they fall backwards, either in response to the wave of the speaker's arm or as a result of a church leader's touch (or push in some cases).

We are not claiming that all examples of being "slain in the Spirit" are fakes or responses to a touch or push. Many people experience an energy or a force that causes them to fall back. However, we find no Biblical basis for this concept. Yes, there may be some energy or force involved, but if so, it is very likely not of God, and not the result of the working of the Holy Spirit.

It is unfortunate that people look to such bizarre counterfeits that produce no spiritual fruit, rather than pursuing the practical fruit which the Spirit gives us for the purpose of glorifying Christ with our lives (Galatians 5:22-23). Being filled with the Spirit is not evidenced by such counterfeits, but by a life that overflows with the Word of God such that the Word spills over in spiritual songs and thanksgiving to God. May Ephesians 5:18-20 and Galatians 5:22-23 so picture our lives!

Answer 3

In connection with the healings performed by Jesus, there was no “psychic surgery” or “being slain in the spirit.” Neither did he give emotional sermons before his healings. What he did was often quite informal. He might touch the sick one, or that one might touch him, or sometimes he merely spoke to the ailing. And they were healed.—Matt. 8:14, 15; Luke 8:43-48; 17:12-19.

Since there is wide agreement—by most faith healers too—that Jesus’ healings were from God, could it be that today’s healers are in contact with a different source of power? This is very likely, especially when we consider the connections of some faith healers with spiritism and occultism. And it is very significant that, concerning these practices, the Bible warns us: “There should not be found in you anyone . . . who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead.”—Deut. 18:10, 11.

This is not religious bigotry. Rather, it protects us from contamination by sinister spirit forces—demons—that have always been against mankind’s better interests. Modern faith healing, with its occult connections, is inevitably different from the healings performed by Jesus Christ, since he always shunned such influences. Anything performed under the influence of these forces will inevitably lead to many cases of “disappointment” and “deception.”

This point about a different source of power becomes clearer when we realize that there is no reason to expect that the same kind of healing Jesus did would be practiced today. The healing work of Jesus and his apostles fulfilled its purpose.

Answer 4

No such thing as slain in the spirit in the bible
Here is a good bible verse against slain in the spirit.
Isaiah 28:13....But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Answer 5

It can't very well be if it doesn't exist in the Bible. It is a pentacostal teaching not a Biblical one. They had to make up a doctrine to explain why they do insane things. The Bible says the "...fruit of the Spirit is.... self control..."

Answer 6

There is no reference to this practice in the Gospels,nor is there any record of the Apostles laying hands on people who then fell and writhed about like people demented,I think that the charismatic movement both Catholic and Protestant is dangerous and some of the practices akin to new age paganism.

Answer 7

Re:1:13: And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Re:1:14: His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Re:1:15: And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Re:1:16: And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Re:1:17: And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
THE HOLY BIBLE SAYS HE FELL WHEN I SAW HIM AND NOT BY THE LAYING OF THE HAND.
WHEN SOMEONE IS SPIRITUALLY SICK AND LAYS HAND ON YOU AND YOU FALL TO THE GROUND,IT IS NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT A EVIL SPIRIT.FOR HE SAID DO ALL THINGS IN MY NAME, HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN.IF IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT HE WILL HEAL YOU
ON THE SPOT AND YOUR BURDEN WILL COME OUT,YOU WILL NOT,NOT,NOT FALL TO THE GROUND.
BEWARE OF FALSE HEALERS.

Answer 8

This is something used by Pentecostals. Has no justification in the Bible Scripturally. However on personal note.. it happened to me when I stood in defiance once and I can not explain it.

Answer 9

I saw the other answers... falling forwards or backwards should not matter....it is not the direction of the fall....it is the physical repsonse to the glory of God...and the body cannot handle it..

there is only one place that i know of..that describes "falling back"..that is when the romans guards came to arrest Jesus in the garden...to identify him, they asked if he was Jesus...when he repsonded...he said..."I AM He"..when he said this...the soldiers fell backwards at his words...a sign to them as to who they were dealing with....

Answer 10

slaying what?? if it is your ego, pride, honour, vanity, selfishness, greed, desires.........................it is right according to the bible. but if it involves another human being..........no, even in thought it is not right.