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1 | No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? | Acts 2:4 | richilou | 10425 | ||
Fortunately, there is another view that I think is the best supported by Scriptures. Just to look in 1 Cor. 12 we see that we have all been baptized in the Holy Spirit when we get saved, but at the end of the chapter, Paul is saying very clearly that it is not all that speak in tongues. So, unfortunately for those who think that the initial sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit of God, not only they are out of context, but they are against what Paul teaches in the Bible. | ||||||
2 | 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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3 | I ask you a loving challenging question | Acts 2:4 | richilou | 10533 | ||
But I would like you reflect more deeply in the text I mentioned in 1 Cor. 12. I agree with the fact that the tongue is a difficult part of the body to control, as said James, but it is totally out of context to use that argument to explain the speaking in tongues. Notice what Paul said in 1 Cor. 12 and 14 and reevaluate your position. I ask you a loving challenging question in conclusion. If God is powerful to give whatever gift He wants to His children, why so much emphasize on this gift when we talk about the power of the Spirit? Was it not a problem in Corinth and if so, why? | ||||||
4 | 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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