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In my reading of Calvin, I don't see anywhere he says that God deliberately created anyone to go to hell. But he did say that because of Adam's sin all mankind was doomed to be condemned. That's a given and all Calvin did was acknowledge it. His view was that the sin of Adam made it...

You might have to explain what you mean by "created of God" and "receiving the breath of God". Otherwise your comment is a bit obscure.

The Westminster Confession of Faith is a document that was formed by the English Reformers who put their interpretation of Calvin's and others' teaching into it. Calvin didn't write it. The English Presbyterians did.

I don't see myself as the local authority on tongues. I'm just a guy with a Bible. Firstly, the gift of tongues is specified in 1 Corinthians 12, and the appropriate use of the gift is set out in 1 Corinthians 14. Seeing that Paul wrote 1 Corinthians with the intention that it was for all...

If I'm in a fellowship meeting, I wouldn't be listening to others if they were speaking in tongues, because what they were speaking would have no meaning for me at all. And Paul did not recommend speaking in tongues during fellowship meetings without an interpreter, so it would be...

It's like any skill that one has never learned. If the skill is not used, it is of no purpose to the person. Before I learned to play the guitar, the instrument was of no use to me, and there was no purpose in it for me. But when I learned to play it 53 years ago, it has served a very useful...

You've basically answered your own question, so I don't have to.

But in the quote that you gave, there is no mention of Calvin's reasons why God does not automatically adopt everyone into the household of faith. I don't think that the Lord will grant salvation to someone who refuses to believe the Gospel. Calvin was a pioneer in the sense that he was the...

The bottom line is that Paul taught that speaking in a way that everyone can understand what is being said is more appropriate in fellowship meetings than speaking in foreign languages that people cannot understand. When he uses the word "prophesy" he is including teaching, instruction, as well...

The written Scriptures are the moderator. The Holy Spirit will always support the written Scriptures. But it will be the whole chapter, not just cherry picked verses out of it to support a personal prejudice.

What Calvin actually teaches is that all humans since Adam are condemned already because of Adam's rebellion against God. God would be quite just and righteous if He had stood back and done nothing. We have religious tree-huggers who go on about God being a God of love, and yet they ignore...

How come it can't be tested with Scripture? Paul wrote a whole chapter on what tongues is and how when when to use the gift. But then if you have had it drummed into you by your mentors that modern tongues is false, then even if Paul is abundantly clear about the gift in 1 Corinthians 14, you...

1. Paul's writing was inspired directly by the Holy Spirit. That is why his letters are recognised as Holy Scripture. If you read carefully you will see that Paul says a lot of things about the basics of the Gospel that are not found anywhere else. So to say that tongues could be fake...

Of course they can. Mormons, pagan temple priests and those in the occult do exactly that.

By following the Berean example, who "searched the Scriptures daily to see if these things be so". Deception comes into where people make the Bible say what they want it to say by quoting random verses out of context and shoehorning the Bible into their own opinions. Soundness of doctrine comes...

So? Just quoting a single verse of Scripture without giving any kind of exposition is pretty well meaningless. How does this verse support your view that tongues is not for modern churches? You didn't quote verse 21 in which Paul gives the reason why. So it looks like just quoting verse...

"For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 1:5). Jesus Himself said it, so you can't get better than that!

In all my many years of being associated with Pentecostals, I have never heard fake tongues, so maybe New Zealand Pentecostals are a different breed than American ones.

I didn't know that the Holy Spirit is still adding to Scripture these days. And who is the privileged recipient of this new revelation?

Really? Prophecy, Word of Knowledge, Word of Wisdom, Discerning of Spirits, Interpretation of tongues, healing, faith, and miracles all can be faked in some way. When the AntiChrist turns up, he will falsify all these gifts as part of his false signs and wonders. These counterfeits will and...