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Pearl, Thanks for sharing your testimony. The tongues haters here rigidly hide behind the stereotype that modern glossolalia is usually imparted through the laying on of hands. Your experience (and mine) is more typical and wonderfully illustrates Paul's case for private praise and songs in...

And I and all the neutral academic Bible commentaries on Acts and 1 Corinthians have decisively refute your unsubstantiated claims--and you have not answer other than babbling on repetitively with no rational defense.

Quiethinker: "This application of tongues is not for the public domain unless there is an interpreter but as i said in the previous post, check the account in Acts 2. I think it's self explanatory. You delight in pontificating your anti-tongues screed from ignorance. So here is a simple home...

Dave L: "You need to provide scripture for your claims." I just did again my last post which you of course duck, as usual. Dave: "Show where the gifts came in any other way than through the two outpourings or through an apostle's hands. You are adding to scripture unless you provide this." No...

VISCERAL SPIRITUALITY "When splagchna This thread will consider the often suppressed use of the Greek word "splagchna" (bowels) and its equivalent verb as a metaphor for authentic Christian compassion. Polite circumlocutions are often used in translations to cover up the raw intensity of the...

Dave L: "Nowhere in Acts does it say all spoke with tongues. It happened with the Apostles and Cornelius' entourage during the two outpourings. I have refuted your claims; so you feel the need to lie and put false words in my mouth. Nowhere have I said that "all spoke with tongues." Dave...

I see everyone has frozen like Bambi in the headlights at my challenge to reconstruct a contradiction-free sequence of events after the discovery of the empty tomb. From this deafening silence it is obvious that NDEs and ADCs can play a useful role in lending credibility to resurrection claims...

See my just completed post in my tongues thread for a fuller refutation of Dave's anti-tongues stance.

There are 3 basic grounds for the claim that the Holy Spirit intends us to strive to speak in tongues throughout the church age: (1) In Acts 2:38-39 Luke's Peter promises the gift of the Holy Spirit throughout the church age: "You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is...

HOW TO AUTHENTICALLY SPEAK IN TONGUES Bible commentators generally agree that Paul intends speaking in tongues to be included among the spiritual gifts we are to strive to exercise: "Strive for the greater gifts (1 Corinthians 12:31)." "Strive for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may...

At age 16 I was so nagged by doubts about the reliability of Scripture and the authenticity of charismatic manifestations in church that my faith crisis prompted me to spend a week at Manhattan Beach Camp near Ninette, Manitoba with the hope that God would meet me in the Pentecostal camp...

AN ADC AS PHYSICAL AS ANY OF JESUS' RESURRECTION APPEARANCES (4a) :Leonard was a wealthy elderly businessman who was a beloved member of a church I pastored in western New York. On a few occasions I had dinner with him and his wife Helen. He was very anxious that I visit his brother, his wife...

lforrest: "Where does Berserk claim to see dead people? None of the ADE posted thus far are his own. Dave resorts to insulting lying fabrications when his fallacious reasoning is exposed and he has no other answers. windmillcharge: "Jesus physically appeared to the disciples over a period of...

All 3 statements are absurdly giggle-worthy and shared by no modern academic commentaries on Acts and 1 Corinthians. Dave pontificates from blissful ignorance of the situation at Corinth, where believers spoke in uninterpreted tongues all at once in the flesh and with no apparent apostolic...

Too bad that your positions are formulated without the intellectual integrity of consulting recent academic commentaries on the biblical books in question, commentaries that refute your position.

My experience of posting on Christian internet sites has confirmed just how closed-minded anti-Charismatics like Dave truly are. His ludicrous reference to "a few questionable sects" at Azusa Street demonstrates that, as usual, he lacks the intellectual integrity to even watch the videos he...

The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 soon spread in 1906-08 to Azusa Street in Los Angeles, the place where global Pentecostalism was birthed--a revival that has led to 600 million converts. The spearhead of the revival is the most spiritually effective African American of all time, William Seymour; and...

Luther knew that we would inevitably sin again. He wanted us to confess the sin and immediately get back to experiencing Jesus as the joy bringer, as evangelist Gipsy Smith used to say. That's what Luther meant by "Sin boldly." Luther loved to use shock tactics like Jesus. Once he was asked...

The church's greatest need is for a genuine national revival. Most Christians believe they long for a revival, but they show by their actions that actually don't. If they did, they'd have a passionate longing to know how historical revivals come, but in my experience, very few believers are...