Someone asked for an example of the 70′s writing. I remember very little. I did pass it all on to the church I was at then. What I do remember was something like the following:
Mercy and Justice are sisters, created to walk together. We have put Mercy on a pedestal and worshipped her and forgotten Justice. Some day Justice will come without Mercy.

How do you know it is not limited by culture? You say “except limited by the English language” but that is a HUGE cultural limitation in itself. You may not see that or agree with that but how could a man in the fields of China read your Holy Spirit words? He couldn’t because he was formed in another culture…..

You also said that the “write would allow himself to be influenced by culture” and you say there is no proof. To that I have to go back to the earlier posts on Ron’s blog that are full of examples in the scripture s that are influenced by culture. Just to give one quick example, Paul’s writing in Titus about slaves obeying their masters?

Do you honestly think that Paul’s words about slaves were not example of him being influenced by the accepted (and God ordained as they understood) slavery of his culture? If you think his words were “pure” from the “Holy Spirit” without cultural location and influence then why do we not affirm slavery today? Or do you?

I am as “on the fence” about what the implications of the authors cultural location(and level of consciousness) as anyone but I am not making much sense of your arguments against “trying on” that assumption when we approach the scriptures. To totally rule it out as a pssible truth we must consider based on one personal experience seems concerning to me. As concerning as if I were to say that because of a vision I once had where Jesus told me that He was not divine but just a fully enlightened human being, as my only argument against Jesus’ divinity…..

Without challenging your interpretation of your “writing in the Holy Spirit”, can I ask how you came to that conclusions about it being some kind of acutural piece of writing? Have you considered that the cultural aspects that might embed your “Holy Spirit” writing are blind to you? Such as the concepts and metaphors used were shaped by the culture you were educated in, learn to speak and write in (you wrote in English correct?) and even the Idea of “writing in the Holy Spirit” is bound to a type of culture within Christianity. I mean to say that your interpretation of that experience and reflection back on would not be meaningful in say a Hindu culture that has no understanding of the “Holy Spirit” that you are using to interpret your writing.

Is it possible that the cultural boundaries that all of us swim in are largely blind to us? We are the fish in the water sounding it’s life asking “what does it mean to be wet?”, that seems to be how, right before our eyes, yet hidden entirely at most times, our cultural boundaries shape us.

Could you provide an example of this writing? I think that may helpful to identify if there are cultural elements that might exist within it and that shaped its writing and content.