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8141 | LUCK - Satanic or Divine | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 10589 | ||
Hi Taby815 Nothing happens by chance especially for a Christian the word says, Psalm 37:23 The steps of a man are established by the Lord, And He delights in his way. Luck has nothing to do with it. I never heard the story about the demon and all and I believe it to be false, nonetheless a Christian shouldn't use the term luck since it simply doesn't exist. I hope this helps Be Blessed and it was real nice hearing from you Ed |
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8142 | Are you talking exorcism or binding? | Matt 18:18 | EdB | 10586 | ||
Me thinketh appleseed dropped out Removing my ill stated question. I just love how I make so many typo. |
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8143 | Holy Spirit baptism and tongues | Mark 9:24 | EdB | 10584 | ||
Richlou You said you offered a challenge and then never said how the Pastor answered it. I will attempt if you permit. Your point 1. The word tongue in greek is "glossa" which mean "the organ we have in the mouth or a language (real human language) and not a chalaman-di-asirlsljdf dede. You know what I mean... My response Yes I do know what you mean and your right but this does not rule out heavenly language does it? It just says it must be a language not gibberish. Your point 2. Look thoroughly in 1 Cor. 12.13. It says that all christians have been baptized in the Spirit. Therefore, all christians has received the baptism of the Holy Spirit according to the text. My response Again this is absolutely right and as I have said in the past when we get saved we get all of the Holy Spirit we are going to get. There is nothing more to get. Your point 3. Lastly, I just ask you to look down the same chapter and see the rethorical question Paul asked when he said: "do all speak with tongues?". The natural answer is "NO". Now the question is, is it biblical to say that speaking in tongue is THE initial sign that a person has been baptized by the Holy Spirit? Once again, the answer is "NO", since Paul said "NO". Yet, concerning the fact that we have been "ALL" baptized by the Holy Spirit is a big yes for all christians and Paul backed it up in his argument against the Corinthian church that was, in passing very in trouble in their understanding of the gifts of the Spirit and above all that one. My response Paul is talking about the gift of tongues not the prayer language that comes when you yield your will to the Holy Spirit. Not everyone gets the gift of tongues to speak out in church but all do get a prayer language should they so desire, seek after and yield to the Holy Spirit. Again this does not make you have more the Holy Spirit nor does it make you more saved. It simply is your will being yielded to the Holy Spirit. Through out the book of Acts we see people as they yield to Holy Spirit begin to speak in tongues, this occur time and time again. Paul talks about speaking in tongues of men and of angels. He talks about speaking in tongues more than the others. He even gave directions in Corinthians on how it is to be done. By the way the danger of a rhetorical question is it can go either way depending on which side of the question you stand. You say the natural answer is no, from where I stand the natural answer is yes. Just having a little fun :-) Again I appreciate your academia credentials understand men with Doctorates stand on either side of this discussion. Your points are well taken but they are not conclusive. Be blessed and be a blessing Ed |
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8144 | I ask you a loving challenging question | Acts 2:4 | EdB | 10539 | ||
I’m sorry I keep forgetting my audience here and assume everyone is on the same page. There are actually two forms/purposes of tongues. The first and primary is our prayer language used when the Holy Spirit is praying through us. this is used to edify the believer. The second the Gift of tongues used within the church along with interpretation as a sign to the unbeliever. When we yield or as many want to say when we are infilled with the Holy Spirit (that is incorrect terminology as explained elsewhere in this thread) we are given a prayer language or tongue. When God wants to move upon and unbeliever He manifests the gifts of tongues in a yielded person, with interpretation in same or another yielded person as sign to the unbeliever. Two different things. Why is there so much focus on tongues? One word attention! People in the flesh want attention and use outburst of tongues to get it. It is these abuses I also discussed elsewhere in this thread. |
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8145 | reference to spilling seed on ground | Gen 38:9 | EdB | 10529 | ||
Sorry I meant to append this to this branch instead of the one I first did. I had a Catholic friend that always said this as a argument against masturbation. It is not in the Bible so I suspect it is either in the Catholic Apocrypha or is part of church teaching. I have searched the apocrypha in the RSV without finding it so it must be only in the Catholic form if it there at all. |
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8146 | reference to spilling seed on ground | Gen 38:9 | EdB | 10528 | ||
I had a Catholic friend that always said this as a argument against masturbation. It is not in the Bible so I suspect it is either in the Catholic Apocrypha or is part of church teaching. I have searched the apocrypha in the RSV without finding it so it must be only in the Catholic form if it there at all. | ||||||
8147 | No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? | Acts 2:4 | EdB | 10526 | ||
Absolutely Steve this is one of the most abused areas of the Bible. Man has taken something God meant for worship and service and turned it into a parlor show. I think many will have much to explain because of this. In my years I have seen the gifts abused and misused in just about every way I can imagine. Flesh has been allowed to run rampant. At some of these big name revivals there is more flesh than anything else. I know one revival that is filled with the Spirit of Carnality and I can’t believe God or the Holy Spirit are even present, yet there are these supposedly wondrous manifestations of the Holy Spirit. I have a word for that, “Baloney”! Before anyone asks no I won’t name the revival. Ask God he will show you. | ||||||
8148 | No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? | Acts 2:4 | EdB | 10522 | ||
Steve as a side bar to this. I have been in Pentecost for a long time and I believe I have witnessed only a hand full of authentic moves of the Spirit. I have seen many demonstrations of the flesh. Once a friend of mind was preaching a service and at the close gave an altar call. A sweet woman came forward and gave her heart to the Lord. My friend prayed with her and then closed the service. He went back to her and started to talk and she drew back in bewilderment. He keep asking what was wrong. The women started to cry finally another women came up and explained, this woman only spoke Spanish. Through the interpreter we learned that she thought my friend spoke Spanish also since that is what she heard him preach and pray in. Another case Jack Hayford tells in one of his books about how he was on a plane and the Holy spirit told him to speak to the man next to him in tongues. Jack kind of argued with the Holy Spirit making the point that this wasn’t the time nor the place. Nonetheless the Holy Spirit insisted. Jack turned to the fellow passenger and said the Holy Spirit has instructed me to speak to you in tongues, then he preceded to give the message. The man listened and when Jack was finished he asked if the man understood. The man told him he had spoken to him in a Cherokee dialect and that he was taught this by his grandmother. He told Jack that he had talked about the Son. This gave Jack a chance to witness to this man which he did for the rest of the flight. |
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8149 | No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? | Acts 2:4 | EdB | 10519 | ||
Steve angels do not usually speak to men and when they do, I don’t know if they speak in an unknown language or not but I do know the men understand. For us to speak in an unknown language your right would be fruitless and here is one of the abuses of tongues in the church today people speaking in tongues without interpretation. If it is authentic it will not happen. For me to pray in the my prayer closet in unknown tongues is nothing more than me allowing the Holy Spirit to pray though me. Even then I should have an general understanding of the prayer. By that I mean we don’t just go into the our prayer closet put our minds in neutral and allow gibberish to come from our mouths. We should be praying in tongues with reasoning. Why God chooses to use tongues in prayer closet situations is debated, some say it is to confuse Satan, I don’t buy that. I think sometimes we are praying about a situation and just don’t know how to pray and Holy Spirit intervenes and prays through us in unknown tongues so we don’t know all the details of what is going to take place. I do not believe we should pray for anybody in tongues unless we are willing to provide an interpretation of what we said. We see this a lot with TV evangelist praying for people. When we pray for people it should be with their understanding so they can say amen as instructed by Paul. Do not discount the gifts of the Spirit because of the abuses and misuses. Search the scripture and you will see it real and for today. |
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8150 | No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? | Acts 2:4 | EdB | 10518 | ||
Again we have confusion. The term baptism in the Holy Spirit and Filled with the Holy Spirit are synonymous terms in that you get all of the Holy Spirit at salvation that there is to get. There is nothing more to get, God does not give pieces of the Holy Spirit nor does God withhold gifts, He gives them freely to all that believe. When the Pentecostals (of which I are one) talk about the infilling of the Holy Spirit they are using bad terminology. What they call infilling is nothing more than yielding our will to the will of the Holy Spirit. Allowing the Holy Spirit to minister through us, to yielding your will. In Acts the Apsotles used this yieldedness as a sign of true conversion since they occurred together. I believe the reason they occurred together was the mindset of the people in that they were far more spiritually minded than we today. Why God choose tongues to me is logical, what is the hardest thing for man to control? His tongue. So if we can yield our tongue to the Holy sprit how much more the rest of our body for God’s service? Notice Acts 1:8 says the Holy Spirit will be given so we have power to witness. This is the problem I have with Pentecostals many if not most are never witnessing. They claim the power but never use it. |
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8151 | No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? | Acts 2:4 | EdB | 10516 | ||
Steve you made a statement here that these were known tongues. In Acts2:4 we don't know what happened. I suspect everyone praised the Lord and by the Power of the Holy Spirit each man heard their utterances in his own tongue, rather than everyone speaking in a different language and no one being able to hear what was being said in the confusion. In Cor. 12:10 we don’t know exactly what Paul was talking about but there is no reason to believe he was limiting his discussion to just tongues of men. The word for tongues he used here is “glossa” it is the same word he used in 1 Cor. 13:1 where he definitely was talking about tongues of Angels (or unknown tongues) and tongues of men. Notice no where in the Paul’s discussion of Tongues does he use the word “ecstatic speech” which would be gibberish as many teach. He always uses the word glossa in the original which means a known tongue but opens that up with tongues of men and of angels. Thus some tongues will be understandable by someone here on earth, in other cases the tongues will not be naturally be understood by anyone here on earth and therefore would need an interpreter. There are many abuses of the gifts today. Many if not most churches use the gifts for entertainment of saints rather than ministry to unbelievers. Many believers use tongues and the other spiritual gifts not to convince unbelievers but to fortify their own faith. They need to see the manifestations to continue in their faith and this is dead wrong. Also many churches put undue importance on the spiritual gifts, they would rather have a message in tongues than see a person saved. And this is also dead wrong. I believe the gifts of the spirit are for today but they are not for in the church but rather in the market place where unbelievers can be lead to the Lord. People say there are unbelievers in the church and your right but they are unbelievers not because they do not know God but because they refuse to crucify the their flesh. |
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8152 | No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? | Acts 2:4 | EdB | 10495 | ||
Yes your right the case is neuter, however it is talking about the end of the church age. When does the church age end? When Jesus returns. That is why I and others said when Jesus returns. It makes sense, the gifts started the church and the gifts should cease at the end. You also said the sign gifts are no longer needed. Aren't there still unbeliever to be convinced? Of course there is. Therefore the sign gifts are still needed. |
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8153 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 10492 | ||
Norrie By definition you are a Arminianist whether you know it our not or if you want to to be or not. How ever you formed your belief system it came into conformity with Arminianism. |
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8154 | "The Disciple's Prayer"? | Luke 11:2 | EdB | 10489 | ||
I will never forget my surprise when I heard a young lady (late twenties) refer to pastor as “dude”. I thought to myself where is the respect? However about a month later I heard her pray and then I knew. Her prayer started “Hey Dude” There was no respect. To me that is just a little to familiar. As to your statement of Holiness and the Catholic church. If Protestants could just have half the appreciation for Holiness that I see in the Catholic church I would be ecstatic. For years we have been fighting a battle to keep people from going behind the altar area in our church, especially kids. Most ignore all requests to stay out and to keep their children out and walk back there with seeming impunity. Our reason is the costly sound equipment and to some degree a lesson in holiness. One day a Catholic man came to the church to look at something. He noticed the 3D painting of an open window looking out into the heavens with a cross and dove in the center. He rushed to view the mural until he got the altar rail and stopped instantly. He then turned to the Pastor and asked permission to continue back to get a closer look. See he respected the sanctity of the area from his training. Something no one has been able to get into the heads of the people that attend there. Once when I was in a catholic bookstore nosing around, I notice one aisle marked “No Kids”. I assume it was where they kept their delicate things. Later I realized it was where they kept the communion vessels and other things that go on the altar. I heard the store owner warn a parent not to allow her child around the holy things. I then went to a Protestant Bookstore and notice two young girls playing with the communion trays as their mothers shopped elsewhere in the store. What a difference the Catholics wouldn’t even allow for the chance for that to happen and the Protestants didn’t seem to even notice. |
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8155 | What does it mean to believe. . . ? | John 3:16 | EdB | 10423 | ||
Some one gave the answer as follows: “The word "believe" here is from the Greek word "pisteuo". It is used 109 times in the New Testament(KJV).It means to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ)" Technically this is right but does not express the real menaing of this word. "Pisteuo" means to be dependant upon. To stake your life on this belief. The Apostles set the example and lived a life the shows the true meaning of this word. Each and everyone of the Apostles was willing to die unquestioningly for what they held to be true. That is believing in Christ. Doing or saying anything less cheapens the meaning of the word. Ed |
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8156 | "The Disciple's Prayer"? | Luke 11:2 | EdB | 10414 | ||
Hank your right on this but I will say there has been many times I have fallen back to the Apostles creed to articulate what it was I believed. And unfortunately this is what is missing in many churches today. We are failing to give our young people even a rudimentry foundation of Christian doctrine. Educator today argue against rote memorization, but say what you will I can still do 9x9 in my head, and can name the states of the United States. Some things we have to memorize so we can draw upon it when we need it. The early church fathers understood this. That is why they developed Hymns to help the people learn the scripture by memorization. It wasn't for entertainment, or to set upon your emotions, but rather to help you learn Christian doctrine. Farmers would sing the hymns to themselves as they walked behind the plows. |
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8157 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | EdB | 10408 | ||
Saints are not omnipresent. They can't hear you praying in United States as another prays to them in Africa. So someone’s prayers is going to be missed at best. At worst, since there is not any scriptural evidence that people in heaven can hear anything we say, everyone who prays to saints are missing out. There is not one scriptural basis for praying to anyone else than God Himself. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray did He teach them to pray to Mary, Saint Joseph, to Himself? No! He said pray this way, "Our Father..." If you feel you, the pope or any church doctrine has the authority to change that then your seriously mistaken. We are to pray to God in the name of Jesus. Ed |
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8158 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | EdB | 10391 | ||
Jesus said there is only one way to the Father. John 10:7 So Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. John 10:9 "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. And Jesus also says that anyone trying to enter another way is a thief. John 10:1-2 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. [2] "But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. Praying to saints is wrong! Even if they could hear you (which they can't) they are powerless to do anything. John 15:5 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. Lastly if they have been depending on other saints for their salvation they may not be where you think them to be. Ed |
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8159 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | EdB | 10366 | ||
Thanks Norrie like I said I had heard it somewhere else. | ||||||
8160 | No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? | Acts 2:4 | EdB | 10365 | ||
Appleseed I believe the teaching on the Holy spirit is some of the most mis-explained teaching there is. When you are saved you receive the Holy Spirit, your full, there is nothing else. God doesn’t hold back some to see if you will ask for it, He gives it all totally and completely. The Holy Spirit doesn't come in pieces. If and when you are exposed to the seeking the gifts, then you will learn to yield to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in you he dwells there, but until you yield he can’t use you. One of the first things that happen when you yield is you start to talk in tongues. When this happens many Pentecostals called this being “filled” as if more was given, nothing more was given. The person just yielded to what he already had. The Holy Spirit if you remain yielded will use you in other manifestations of the Holy Spirit such as healing or prophecy or works of wisdom. However the Holy Spirit only moves in these other gifts as they are needed and many times a person is not yielded or gift not needed therefore we do not see that gift in that person. Everybody that is saved has a full measure of the Holy Spirit, whether they use it or not depends on what teaching they have been exposed to and whether they choose to yield their will to another, the Holy Spirit. When you talk in tongues you not “more saved”, you can’t get “more saved”. You are just able to yield your will to the Holy Spirit and allow him to minister through you. I hope this helps Ed |
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