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Many evangelicals just claim the biblical texts that create the expectation that if they have repented, believed the Gospel, and made a faith commitment, then they automatically have the Holy Spirit. But is this a dangerous assumption challenged by Paul's epistles? PAUL'S EXPERIENTIAL CRITERIA...

SUPERIOR CATHOLIC POWER TO FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION: "THEY SHALL CAST OUT DEMONS." For me, the most impressive aspect of the Catholic doctrine of apostolic succession is the awesome contrast between the unique power and success of exorcist priests versus the relative ineptness of deliverance...

C4M: "Paul said so in context of comparing tongues against prophesy for why prophesy is better; not how cool it is by itself LOL, you conveniently ignore Paul's wording: he says, "he who speaks in an uninterpreted tongue EDIFIES himself." Edification from the Spirit is always spiritually...

Funny you must resort to insults to mask your inability to get into the Word with me and discuss the cited texts! This just in--Jesus was sinless, but Paul was not. But I still find the revealed Word of God in Paul's epistles.

marks: "(no Barnabas [in Gal. 1:15-19])...Where is Paul defensive? Seeking approval? (1) In Galatians 1-2 Paul defensively leaves out his need for Barnabas to accompany him on this his first trip to Jerusalem (Acts 9:26-27). Paul needs Barnabas as a character reference to vouch for the...

(2) PAULINE TEXTS IMPLYING THE POSSIBILITY OF POST-MORTEM RECONCILIATION WITH GOD: "God...is the Savior of ALL people, ESPECIALLY (Greek: "malista") of those who believe (1 Timothy 4:10)." Note what the text does not say; it says not that, "God is the Savior of those who believe," but of "ALL...

Do people in your church testify to "demonstrations of the Spirit and of power (1 Cor. 2:6)?" Do they testify to healing miracles and supernatural guidance? "Is yours a cessationist church "holding the outward form of godliness but denying its power?" Avoid them (2 Timothy 3:5)."

Taken: "Have you found any Scriptural testament of Peter in Rome?" Duh, if you studied your Bible, you'd realize that 1 Peter is written from Rome (1 Peter 5:13; cp. Rev. 17:5, 18)." :rolleyes: Peter has the authority in behalf of the Roman church to send a circular letter to several...

In Paul's day pagans (e. g. Greek oracles) speak in tongues (gibberish) in order to have it interpreted. You can cite no example iin Paul's day of any pagan speaking in private tongues. And even if they did, so what? Private tongues raise the purity and passion of our praise to God and Jesus...

Christ4Me: "Not every believer will test the spirits and the tongues they bring because they want to believe that special phenomenon was of God. 1 John 4:1-6." And if you read post #4, you'll see that precisely that problem created a lot of doubt for me as a teen about the reality of these...

Christ4Me: "Where in the scripture does it instruct future believers to study the Greek because the message or meaning of His words can be lost in translation to a foreign tongue for us to have any wisdom in knowing what is truly written?" The Bible can never be accurately translated because...

n2theligt: The next time true tongues will be spoken is from the below Mark 13:11 "But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that...

Enoch illustrates the godless need of fundamentalists who don't know Greek to mindlessly pontificate on what Greek words mean, using outdated and linguistically incompentence concordances to compensate for their ignorance. the massive articles of the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament...

Enoch111: "Since the Catholic Church has made the papacy its key doctrine," Nope! Enoch: "...then logic and commonsense demand that Peter be shown to be "THE bishop" of Rome in the Bible." "Bishop" just means 'overseer and obviously Peter would have been the highest authority in the Roman...

Fundamentalists here are blissfully ignorant of Greek and Aramaic and so they understandably have no answer to the detailed biblcal exegesis provided in post for Peter's status as the Rock a status the gives him "the keys of "the kingdom of heaven" and the authority of priestly absolution. So as...

[3] BIBLICAL FOUNDATION OF PRAYING TO SAINTS (1) Are the righteous dead aware of earthly events? Yes. "There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous ones who need no repentance (Luke 15:7)." "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of...

I doubt than any fundamentalist here have experienced or even heard of someone they know being healed of congestive heart failure through prayer. Well, I'm acquainted with a Catholic who attracted such a miracle through a combination of embracing Catholic reverence for holy relics (e. g. bones...

Christ4Me: "So basically...you pursued a false teaching about "unless one speaks in tongues, they do not have the Holy spirit and therefore you are not saved"? Why do you so often LIE by willfully distorting views you find threatening because your own experience of the Spirit is so...

Christ4Me: "When you take it in context" You don't understand how Bible scholars establish relevant "context." In this case the only question of whether Paul elsewhere clarifies what he and the Corinthians mean by "tongues of angels." So when we learn that the Corinthians are "zealots of...

Nancy: "The Pentecostal and Charismatic movement will tell you that they have a gift that you dont have........and then they will tell you that this gift is proof of Salvation...These beliefs that one is not saved unless they speak in tongues IMHO, has turned many away from God as, they do not...