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Other than Pentecost and for the household of Cornelius (1st recorded Gentile convert), when was the Spirit given by means other than the laying on of the apostle's hands in the new testament?

Let's talk about the matter of the Holy Spirit or should I say Separate (special) Breath from God that was promised by Jesus. In the book of John, Jesus says the following to his Disciples in John 14: If ye love me, my commands keep, 16and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will...

That is kind of a big deal, isn't it? Is it the church? Is it the literal reign of Christ that began at the right hand of power in the 1st century? Is it a future thing? Rightly dividing the whole context of what scripture says could uncover the best answer.

That's the exact claim in question Scott! You say you know something and you are being ask to prove that what you claim to know is in accordance with objective, demonstrable truth. Yet another claim you've failed to demonstrate is true. What I and others ARE blind to is what's happening in...

Please DEMONSTRATE your knowledge. If I tell you I know how to bake a cake and you ask me to, I can demonstrate. If I tell you I know the President, I can demonstrate that as well. Why is asking you to prove that what you claim is true so hard for you if you really know what you claim you know...

What makes your personal testimony credible evidence?

The evidences mentioned above has some level of objectivity, especially when compared with personal feelings and beliefs. There is tons of evidence that provides not only backing, but proof that certain things in the Bible were historical, but those same evidences show that there are flawed...

Lookie here, homework! I'll indulge. If a god, many gods, or any gods exist, I'd want to know. I guess. What power could say no to a god powerful enough to bring about existence. I actually thought that I had not only encountered by interacted with my God on a spiritual level on many...

You are special pleading. Evidence is evidence. This "my" and "your" concept is flawed. The only thing particular to the individual is the conclusion drawn from the evaluation of the evidence. You are saying "here's what the evidence says to me and my conclusion about what it says is correct and...

What evidence? Again, I have YOU making a claim about what you believe and somehow subconsciously conflating your perspective with reality. Just because YOU BELIEVE in a god does not make what YOU BELIEVE right about god. Again, the burden of proof is on YOU to

The existence of the worlds are evidence, but evidence of what exactly? YOU say they are evidence for (I presume) the god you believe in. I do nt reject the world, I just have not been given evidence that substantiates YOUR claim that the world itself is evidence for your god. Can you prove that...

God - the entity that acted as the will and might that caused existence to come about. I don't have a credible argument against such an entity being a possibility. I'd go as far as saying that asking for evidence for or against this entity being real is rather futile. Having said that, an...

I am not a theist. I hope that I am fair-minded enough to be able evaluate any evidence and take my beliefs where the truth leads. I do want to point out that there can be a distinction between why a person believes something and evidence for that belief. In other words, a person rejecting your...

Please don't say "it's just a theory." A theory is actually a very different thing than an idea or a guess. What a scientific theory is is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and...

More like, I was originally taught that "a" was right and I didn't examine it prior to accepting it. I was challenged to examine it and would that it came up wanting, so what was once believed had to be amended. That realization that beliefs should be vetted then becomes a practice and allows...

I've often wondered what "fulfillment" looked like to Jesus. It is generally not debated that a major portion of what he was saying had to do with him being the anointed one (Messiah). However, the last line mentions ALL being fulfilled and the details surrounding the "all" seems to cause...

For me, where the rubber met the road was here. If it could be demonstrated that there was even a single error in the Bible, an unfulfilled prophecy, or a contradiction, I would have to deal with the realization that the foundation upon which my faith and my perceived relationship with my Lord...

Through all my doctrinal positions, one thing never wavered and that was my conviction that the Bible was God's inspired, infallible, perfect word without error or contradiction. My Christian walk and even my relationship with God was based on this being the reality. It was the very foundation...

I hadn't gotton to the whys yet. Patience, it's coming.

For most of my life and all of my adult life I had been a practicing "New Testament Christian" convinced about my faith my religion. About a decade or so ago I began to question some of the tenets of my religion especially as it related to the church (not my faith in God). I went from being an...