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Looks like the thread is just a two horse race between he says, and he says. Nothing for me to contribute here.

In the years I have been attending church meetings and conferences I have been able to learn the difference between when the Holy Spirit is active and when He isn't. I have been to all-day conferences where I have enjoyed and drank in the teaching and activities and been disappointed when the...

The trouble with laughter is that it is infectious. What happens in many cases is that someone will deliberately start up laughing in the flesh, and because he is laughing, others will start laughing in response. Although the laughter is forced by the person who started it, the resulting...

People who do that don't know what spirit they are of. It is certainly not the Holy Spirit, because the characteristics of a Spirit-filled person is that they express love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness and patience. One great way of finding out what a barrel is full of. Give it a kick...

1 Peter 1:8 validates genuine holy laughter: "Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not even see Him now, you believe and trust in Him and you greatly rejoice and delight with inexpressible and glorious joy" It is sadly true that holy laughter can be faked and be...

There is no such thing as a perfect church. If you apply the principle you have stated, most of our churches would have to close their doors. The church is not meant to be a showcase for perfect Christians, but a hospital for lost sinners. Also, if you are insisting on legal perfection on the...

Although a couple of months ago I would have agreed with you, I am learning that just because there are dodgy things happening in a church or organisation, or a forum, it doesn't mean that we lambast the whole thing. I saw that Paul celebrated the Corinthian church even though there were...

The test of any "discernment" is who is being glorified and who the impression is pointing to. When the Holy Spirit speaks to a person, it is to draw that person closer in faith to Christ. The Holy Spirit's mission is to draw people to Christ, get them saved, and then to give them guidance...

Your last sentence beautifully illustrates the misuse of the gift of the Word of Knowledge, and there are so many heart-breaking stories of people believing such trash and having their lives ruined as a result. Nine out of every ten impressions and so called visions are from the world, flesh...

This is why modern apostles cannot equate themselves with the Apostles of Christ who were a special group who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to form the New Testament. The test for a modern apostle is: Do sick and disabled people get healed and demons get cast out of occult pagans as part of...

It makes you wonder about the spiritual maturity of some of the moderators on that forum. Moderators are usually volunteers and not a lot of evaluation of their backgrounds are made before appointing them. They are probably given the forum rulebook and left them to do their moderating. It...

Did you tell him that you didn't have a pair of horns and didn't own a pitchfork?? :)

What disappointed me about the way I was treated there was that I was a paid supporter and having been a member since the early 2000s. I was temporarily banned because I posted on an open theology thread posing questions about the RCC for which I was reported and warned. If I had posted the...

I'm not actually fighting the issue. All I am doing is stating the Scriptural qualifications of a true apostle of the church. There were only the Apostles of Christ who lived in the 1st Century, who were directly appointed and commissioned by the risen Christ. None of those exist today. But...

I got kicked off CF because I wouldn't compromise my position that evolution is a religion and that the RCC is a fraud. I paid money to become a supporter of CF, but when they kicked me out, they certainly didn't refund my money!

All sounds fine in theory and there are certainly great Christian workers around the world who are called apostles and prophets, but unless they fit the Scriptural definition of an apostle or prophet then they cannot be those in reality.

I like Calvin's description of an apostle at the start of his commentary on 1 Corinthians. He says it is not enough to be called an apostle, he has to be one. He says an apostle is one who preaches the Gospel and his preaching is validated by signs and wonders. His definition has influenced...

You missed out one criterion. An apostle has to be validated by the Holy Spirit through signs and wonders as part of his preaching of the Gospel of Christ. No healing of sick and disabled people, no apostleship. A real apostle's ministry will feature people getting out of wheelchairs, blind...

Although we need apostles and prophets today, we don't have them. Because of the divided nature of our churches into separate denominations, it is impossible to have an apostle or prophet that is fully recognised by all the the body of Christ. Just because a Bible teacher calls himself an...

The "Mary" that Roman Catholics venerate is not the Mary the mother of Jesus. She is dead and buried like all the others who lived during the 1st Century, awaiting for the resurrection of the godly when Jesus comes to collect them. The "Mary" of the RCC statues is none other than the pagan...