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21 | how do we know that verse is accurate? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Jeff12 | 49166 | ||
For people who do not believe that the Scriptures are inspired of God there is no "knowing". The one requirement of God places on us is to believe and THEN we shall see. (Not always the case, but the vast vast majority of the time this is true). At some point in my life I believed some Scriptures and I saw that they were true and it gave me more believing that other parts of it were true. As I grew in believing what God says in His Scriptures I saw that He never lies. He always remains faithful to His Word. With the things I have seen and heard I could not be convinced otherwise. This is not to say I believe every single verse so that God is totally fulfilled in me because that is not true. We grow in believing as we believe. It's a paradox but we first must believe and then we see. But when we see is up to God. If you don't believe and want to you can ask God to help you with your unbelief. What do you want to believe? |
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22 | accuracy of oral traditions? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Jeff12 | 49154 | ||
2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, (NIV) You see it doesn't really matter when the actual Scriptures were written down because they were inspired from God to someone who wrote the Scriptures down. So any oral traditions would be meaningless. |
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23 | Holy Spirit, holy spirit, or both? | 1 Corinthians | Jeff12 | 48881 | ||
I use the capitalized "H" and "S" for God who is Holy and who is Spirit. The lowercase "h" and "s" are for the holy spirit He gave to us when we first believed (born again). The KJV does it this way but sometimes they are not consistent. From John 16:13 we can derive that the holy spirit is a "connection" so to speak. "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." (NIV) It gets its information from God and relays it to us. This "holy spirit" given by God is synonymous with many things Scripturally: truth, power. You might take a look at the word "spirit" in the concordance and see what you come up with. The word spirit is used of devil spirits too but I think you'll see the difference real quick. Essentially we need to know how "our" holy spirit works in us and how we can tap into its power. You can read through out the Bible where the spirit of God worked in His people but that doesn't mean the spirit will work the same way in us. For example, with me it's usually through feeling but at rare times it's a "still small voice" but I'm not going to put this spirit in a box about how it's going to work in me. That's God's job. Not mine. This holy spirit field is one of the most mis-understood aspects of the Scriptures. We have people saying that the manifestations of the spirit listed in I Cor 12:8 - 10 died with the Apostles (original) and yet we have people speaking in tongues today. So first we need the correct doctrine, know from the Bible how it worked in others, and then learn how it works in us. |
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24 | The gift of Tongues | 1 Corinthians | Jeff12 | 48810 | ||
If you have the holy spirit you can speak in tongues. All you need to know is how. | ||||||
25 | Though i speak with the tongues of men | Acts 2:11 | Jeff12 | 48807 | ||
Need to? No. But here are Scriptures that say a little of what speaking in tongues does or is. Acts 2:11 "Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God." (KJV) Speak the wonderful works of God. Acts 10:46 "For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God." (KJV) Definition of "magnify": 1) to make great, to magnify; metaphorically, to make conspicuous 2) to deem or to declare great to esteem highly, to extol, to laud, to celebrate 3) to get glory and praise Though the person doing the speaking in tongues does not understand what is being said it is speaking the wonderful works of God and magnifying Him. |
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