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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: docjoc Ordered by Verse |
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1 | Is speaking in tongues for today? | Bible general Archive 1 | docjoc | 4898 | ||
The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that despite what my church taught and what I firmly believed for most of my Christian life, I can now find no strong bibical evidence that this or any other gift or fruit of the Holy Spirit has "passed away". | ||||||
2 | Do We Worship On Our Knees Only? | Bible general Archive 1 | docjoc | 4899 | ||
I too have wonder the difference between worship and praise. A short review of the major dictionaries was also of no help indicating that this is a confusing issue. I finally found that worship commonly refers to "bended knee" while praise relates to the word "halelujah". Praise is what happens when you find , as I did recently, that my daughter who has been married for ten years, and has prayed and prayed for a baby , is finally pregnant. That is praise. | ||||||
3 | Do We Worship On Our Knees Only? | Bible general Archive 1 | docjoc | 4929 | ||
What really surprised me is that praise and worship are commonly used together in the church, but when you ask, even the "experts" have difficulty seperating the two. It also seems to me that most of us in our Christian practice are long on worship, but a little short in our praise. |
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4 | Do We Worship On Our Knees Only? | Bible general Archive 1 | docjoc | 4943 | ||
Have you ever wondered why Chrisitans go absolutely nuts and act like wild men when their football team scores a winning touchdown. But at the same time can't get too excited about their God. Sometimes I think that they are like Davids wife who criticized him when he danced before the Arc. They find fault with folks when they show too much emotion in church. If there is something or someone worthy of our excitment and praise, it is the Lord! | ||||||
5 | Is being "slain in the spirit" biblical? | Bible general Archive 1 | docjoc | 5184 | ||
For years I too was skeptical of "being slain in the Spirit" until I saw it happen to my little son, at the time only 5 years. My wife and I were attending a small chuch that was just getting started and met in a recreation room of some apartments. My son, who was playing mainly in the playground outside the room where we were meeting had a minor ailment that my wife wanted the minister to pray about. So, after the service was over my son was brought into the room where the minister put his hands on my son's head and offered a simple prayer that God would touch my little son. To my surprise and the surprise of the whole congregation, he dropped like he had been hit on the head. He lay unconscious on the floor with a sweet contented smile on his face for about twenty minutes. At no time had he received the suggestion that he should fall when the minister prayed for him. No other person was being prayed at the same time. He mimicked no other person. I therefore had to conclude that despite my skepticism being "slain in the Spirit" is a valid Christian experience. Like all other Chrisitan experience this experience may not always be of God. This does not of course invalidate this experience. Since then in reading of many famous Christians ministeries and revivals ( John Wesley, George Whitefield, Charles Finney and the famous Cane Ridge revival come to mind ) the experience of being "slain in the Spirit" was not uncommon. |
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6 | Holy Ghost Baptism subsequent to salvati | 1 Cor 12:13 | docjoc | 4459 | ||
It seems to me that there are two places that indicate that Christians, in a second experience receive the Holy Spirit. First is in John 22:22 Jesus ...breathed on them, and said to them receive the Holy Spirit. In chapter 20 after the resurrection Jesus is revealing Himself to the diciples. It seems likely that they are Christians at that time and that they have, since Jesus breathed on them certainly received the Holy Spirit. After they become Christians they are them told to wait in Jerusalem where they receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. So the text indicates that the diciples received the Holy Spirit twice. The second place is Acts 19 1 to 6. Paul found some diciples. The word diciple in all other parts of the bible is used to refer to Christians. Secondly they had also been taught by Apollos, who Paul had good things to say about e.g."Apollos planted and I watered". I think the text shows that they are born again believers. Paul then asks if they have received the Holy Spirit. They answer that they have never even heard of the Holy Spirit. So, Paul then lays his hands on them "the Holy Spirit came on them and they began to speaking in tongues and prophesying." Here are two immediate examples that show that both Jesus and Paul place emphasis on true born again Christians receiving the Holy Spirit as an additional or second touch of God after salvation. |
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7 | Baptism of the Holy Spirit after reborn? | 1 Cor 12:13 | docjoc | 4507 | ||
You question is a good one, because for most of the church we are like those guys in Acts 19 who said, "we didn't even know that there was a Holy Spirit". Many churches I have attended either completely ignore the Holy Spirit or rarely give a short doctrinal explanation of the Holy Spirit. I can only assume that they avoid the Holy Spirit so that they can avoid unconfortable subject that may somehow bring up the subject of tongues and related works of the Holy Spirit that they don't want to deal with. I am reminded of the scripture that says in the last days men will hold a form of religion, but deny the power of it. The Holy Spirit is about giving power to the believer to live the life and to do the works that Jesus called us to do. To paraphase the old add, the Holy Spirit puts "a tiger in your tank." |
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8 | Baptism of the Holy Spirit after reborn? | 1 Cor 12:13 | docjoc | 4508 | ||
You question is a good one, because for most of the church we are like those guys in Acts 19 who said, "we didn't even know that there was a Holy Spirit". Many churches I have attended either completely ignore the Holy Spirit or rarely give a short doctrinal explanation of the Holy Spirit. I can only assume that they avoid the Holy Spirit so that they can avoid unconfortable subject that may somehow bring up the subject of tongues and related works of the Holy Spirit that they don't want to deal with. I am reminded of the scripture that says in the last days men will hold a form of religion, but deny the power of it. The Holy Spirit is about giving power to the believer to live the life and to do the works that Jesus called us to do. To paraphase the old add, the Holy Spirit puts "a tiger in your tank." |
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