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1 | Individuals seeking, expecting tongues? | 1 Cor 13:8 | jcsav | 140396 | ||
I have not done so. However, individuals do seek the Holy Spirit whether it says so or not. Who did I tell to seek for the Holy Spirit? I told them to obey what Pete said in Acts 2:38 and there would be no need for this discussion. This is a bible forum, not a Church. We are discussing "Tongues" because of a question that was Asked (If anyone can remember what that was).However, Martin Luther said it best: "If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the Truth of God except precisely that little point that the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages is where the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point." |
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2 | Individuals seeking, expecting tongues? | 1 Cor 13:8 | kalos | 140409 | ||
'If your Oneness Pentecostal friend persists in maintaining that Acts is a blueprint for all church history, ask him to show you where in the Book of Acts does one find INDIVIDUALS SEEKING for the Holy Spirit and EXPECTING TO RECEIVE TONGUES as the sign that He's come? This is the standard way the "baptism of the Spirit" occurs among Oneness Pentecostals, but it has no parallel in Acts. 'In Acts, the Holy Spirit always falls on entire groups who are not expecting tongues (or any other sign). So the Oneness Pentecostals do not even follow their own (misguided) hermeneutic. This insight was a wound to my pride as a Oneness Pentecostal, for the belief that "we alone do it JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS" (!) is the essence of the Oneness Pentecostal position.' ____________________ Gregory A. Boyd (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is currently Assistant Professor of Theology at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota. (www.equip.org) Near the top of the page enter: DO077-1 Under Sharing Your Faith With Oneness Pentecostals (Part One) click on PDF |
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