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LOL, "first things first" requires you to address my biblical points that you always duck because you have nothing to say. I have reapeatedly and decisively refuted all your biblical interpretations without any detailed response from Scripture. Sadly, because you don't know Greek and don't...

Your only defense is your ostrich approach to biblical discussion; that is, you don't read modern biblical commentaries on the NT books you cite and you neither carefully read nor respond in detail to the posts that decisively refute your bogus screed. So for newbie readers only (not for your...

Dave L,: "All of your conjecture is unnecessary. The gifts expired by the time John published Revelation according to scripture. What I present is not conjecture, but rather expresses the modern scholarly consensus among New Testament academic scholars, charismatic and non-charismatic alike...

Dave L: "People said people who spoke in tongues were edified by doing so. Readers must always remember that you pontificate from ignorance without watching any supportive videos or carefully reading supportive Scriptures, so that a meaningful engagement can occur. So you constantly need...

(9) This next encounter with "the word of knowledge" is probably my 2nd most treasured spiritual highlight in my life. I had applied to Harvard's doctoral program in New Testament, Judaism, and Greco-Roman backgrounds, but my a fellow seminarian told me I'd be rejected just like he was. So where...

REPLY TO THE OBJECTION THAT SPEAKING IN TONGUES IN THE NT CHURCH ALWAYS EXPRESSED HUMAN LANGUAGES. Of the many modern examples that might be given, I have posted 3 very helpful and comforting examples familiar to me of tongues in modern languages similar to the unique case of Acts 2. Indeed, we...

(6) BR is a missionary to an African Muslim nation. He shared this testimonh in my parents' church. 2 young missionaries were doing hospital visitation and praying for the gravely ill. Ahmed was dying of AIDs; so they prayed for his healing. But Ahmed was a radical Muslim mullah who hated...

You have now been decisively refuted by sound biblical exegesis and historical documentation and are no longer worth a response. Indeed, you don't even understand what the "occult" is, and so, are reduced to throwing around negative labels that you don't understand.

Core Issue: "Slain in the spirit didn't exist until the 1900s. It is of OCCULT origin." More uneducated pontifications from ignorance! In fact, seekers were "slain in the Spirit in both the First and Second Great Awakenings in the 18th and 19th century respectively. Indeed, the father of...

CoreIssue: "Show me SLAIN in the spirit in the Bible You just need to get into the Word more: e. g. "When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead (Revelation 1:17)." "If all prophesy, an unbeliever or outsider who enters is reproved by all and called to account by all. The secrets of his...

(5) ATHEIST HOWARD SRORM'S THRILLING CONVERSION THROUGH AN NDE Howard Storm had been an atheist Art History professor who took delight in ridiculing the naivite of Christians. But he was gloriously saved through his NDE. Howard had previously been a university art history professor who took...

"Seedy" characters like Jesus' disciples and Paul. Oh, and if you had the intellectual integrity to actually watch the posted documentary on Azusa Street, you would learn (1) that the Martin Luther of the Pentecostal movement, William Seymour spend many hours over many days in prayer and...

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS FOR VINCE AND OTHER ATHEISTS (1) Why are you an atheist instead of an agnostic? Vince: "I am an atheist because I fit the definition. I lack a belief in god...I believe that if god exists he should be knowable." How serious are you about confirming God's existence through...

Hobie, I'm highly amused by your myopic, perhaps deliberate oversight in ducking the 3 verses in 1 Corinthians 14 that justify private praying in tongues. As a retired New Testament professor, I'm giving you the homework assignment of identifying these 3 verses.:rolleyes:

(5) Russ (a judge) and his wife Linda had attended a UMC church I pastored in Western New York. After I moved to Buffalo for a new one-year pastoral appointment there, Linda called me one Thursday night to say that Russ was in Florida maintaining a deathbed vigil for his mother who was in a...

On the contrary, modern spiritual gifts produce even greater results than "the originals" in fulfillment of Jesus' promise not to the apostles, but to "the one who believes:" "Very truly I tell you, the one who believes in me will do the works that I do and, fact, will do greater works than...

(8) My next experience of the "word of knowledge" was unequivocally helpful. As part of Princeton's field education, I worked as a chaplain assistant at the Newark College of Engineering. The night prior to my drive to Newark, I had a nightmare, a premonitory dream in which I knew my life would...

7 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS FOR VINCE AND OTHER ATHEISTS (1) Why are you an atheist instead of an agnostic? (2) If your skepticism were wrong, what evidence do you have that discovery of your error is your highest priority? (3) How do you know whether or not there are other types of evidence for God...

I returned to Buffalo a few years ago to perform the wedding ceremony for a young man whose family attended my church when I was a pastor there. He now attends the Chapel! Small world.

Dave L: "You make prayer to difficult and do not understand how the prayer of faith works." I have conducted a 6-hour workshop on prayer for lay leaders. Have you? Your arrogant presumption is ghastly and your judgmental spirit is a stain on your anti-charismatic piety. How many healing...