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Who said that I am special from the rest of the body of Christ? I am about as special as you are! I am who Charles Spurgeon described: "I'm just a poor sinner and nothing at all, but Jesus Christ is my all in all." I'm not even a good Christian, as D Martyn Lloyd Jones says: "There are no...

I live in Christchurch and that mosque was just 10 minutes drive from my home. And actually it was not a Christian who attacked the mosque, it was a white supremacist atheist. There is sort of a difference. Perhaps, like some who pick bits out of the Bible to suit their opinion, the same is...

Case in point. Even though you are presented with substantive evidence that disproves your position on tongues, you insist on maintaining that it is not of God, which basically implies that I and my Christian friends are lying. and our testimonies are false. So that ends the conversation...

It seems that you are totally committed to the personal belief that any practice of tongues in today's churches are pagan, so I can't say anything more about it. But you need to be careful that you don't accuse Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians of being pagan, because that might land you...

I think that if you were in an African Pentecostal church and someone received the gift of tongues and started praising the Lord in clear English which they had never learned, you would still say that he would be speaking pagan tongues. I have a friend who attended Pentecostal churches in...

I did ask Him, and He directed me back to 1 Corinthians 14 and told me to read the whole chapter and not to believe anyone who just picks and chooses verses out of it to prove their own opinions about it. Also, He reminded me of the time I was quietly praying in tongues during an altar call in...

Well, the signs and wonders were not owned by the Apostles themselves. The supernatural gifts are given to the body of Christ and not to individuals. The Holy Spirit distributes the gifts to be used according to His will not ours. We can't say that we own a gift, like some do. We can say...

Well, you can challenge the doctrine, which I think is not really essential for the foundation of the gospel which is based on the belief that Jesus is the Son of God who died for our sins and rose again to give us eternal life and that we need to repent and receive Him as Saviour. Whether a...

I pray for her every day that her faith will become more focussed on Christ, because, as I have told the Lord, the last thing I would want to happen to her is that she ends up unsaved. I have to trust God that she is in His hands and that He can see her heart, and is quite able to change it...

That is my preferred view. But I proposed the gap theory to one Christian member to be less contentious due to his belief in evolution. I guess there is an element to Paul's attitude on non-essential matters, to be "all things to all men." But where the essential foundations of the gospel are...

Informative. :-)

Maybe you didn't read the same Early Church fathers I did. The consensus I saw in their writing about tongues and prophecy is that they declined because of the lowering of holiness standards from one generation to another. Also Augustine having embraced Cessationism in his early ministry, had...

B B Warfield was a determined Cessationist and so his teaching on the topic is prejudicial. Everything you are saying is conjecture, because there is no Scriptural basis for it. Show me one full verse that clearly shows that Jesus and Paul said that the supernatural gifts were just for the...

I concur with you that the example of "tongues" you set off in commas is not genuine tongues at all. It all depends on why people speak in tongues. I believe that public speaking in tongues without the intention of having them interpreted to edify the other members is of the flesh and not...

You must be referring to the OP, so I won't respond to your comment. :-)

Baptism is for believers to make their public confession of their commitment to Christ. It is consistent with the Scripture: "For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved" (Romans 10:10). So, baptism is an...