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1 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | Hank | 160771 | ||
Hello, Mark. "I feel good about the gift of speaking in tongues." ...... That's OK, I suppose, if it makes you "feel" good. :-) ..... As for me, Mark, I feel neither good nor bad about it, but struggle to know what the Bible actually teaches about it. In my economy, as I've tried many times in these pages to show, how I "feel" about Bible truth isn't worth "a bucket of warm spit," to use the graphic description of John Nance Garner's assessment of the vice-presidency. ...... As a staunch cessationist, I do not hold to speaking in tongues in our time, believing that the practice along with other "miracle gifts" such as healing ceased with the end of the apostolic age. I believe that God can and still does perform miracles today, but that the Holy Spirit no longer uses individuals to perform miraculous signs. I believe that cessationism is scriptural; otherwise, I would not subscribe to it. I further believe that the glossolalia as practiced today never did have its exact counterpart in the apostolic church. ....... The Forum archives are already well stocked with posts on tongue speaking, and I recall no resolution of the divisive issue having ever been found, so I see no point in stringing the subject along interminably. I see no scriptural reason to assume that the person who speaks in tongues is brought any closer to heaven thereby, or that the person who does not speak in tongues is cast any farther away from heaven. Mark, while we may disagree here and there on certain points of doctrine, I do not think that the divide is so wide or so deep that we cannot reach across the chasm and extend to one another the hand of fellowship. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | mark d seyler | 160958 | ||
Hi Hank, The truth is, I feel good about everything the Bible teaches, so long as I am abstaining from sin. When I am not, I don't always feel so good. I absolutely agree with you, as I expect that you already know, that the only thing that matters is what the Bible says, and certainly not my fickle emotions! :-) I suspected you might be a cessationist, although I wasn't sure. Obviously, I am not. We both have our reasons, we both are sincere about them, and only one of us is right about it. And I agree with you as well that we really don't need to repeat it all here and now. Should someone ask me why I believe as I do, I will tell them. It doesn't seem like you are asking. ;-) Really, I don't see a chasm between us. You have always struck me as a man who loves the Lord. And I know that in those places where I am in error, God will correct me in due time, as He will each of us. God bless you, Hank! Love in Christ, Mark |
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