What are the proof texts from the Bible for Slain in the Spirit?

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Is this for a theological exam or something...sorry cant help you.

Although..anais and saphirra did both drop down dead when they lied to the Holy Spirit. Does this count as being slain in spirit? Dont know you tell me.
 
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Lanolin said:
Is this for a theological exam or something...sorry cant help you.

Although..anais and saphirra did both drop down dead when they lied to the Holy Spirit. Does this count as being slain in spirit? Dont know you tell me.
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No, person that do against the Lord may kill as a punishment. Slain in the spirit is for people come to the Lord and fall. For that, I never read in the bible
 
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Lanolin said:
Is this for a theological exam or something...sorry cant help you.

Although..anais and saphirra did both drop down dead when they lied to the Holy Spirit. Does this count as being slain in spirit? Dont know you tell me.
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I watch in YouTube. Ex Muslim now Christian pastor preach in gorontalo, indonesia, about 5000 muslim school student was there. 7 of the student mad come to the pulpit with sword try to kill the pastor, but Holy Spirit struck them, they fall.

This is not slain in the spirit. This is punishment, slain in the spirit is for people that come to the Lord.

Paul was fall when he try to persecute Christian, it is different story.

We need to know when apostle lay hand and pray for a person than they fall.
 
Hmm no, cant think of any when apostle lays hands on someone they fall.

Eutuchys fell asleep and also fell out of a window when Paul was preaching all night. They thought he was dead but laid hands on him and he came back to life, he was alright. Nobody pushed him out the window though.
 
This is the best internet article on the biblical basis for being slain by the Spirit:

https://www.bible-knowledge.com/slain-in-the-spirit/

But surprisingly, neither this article nor any others on the internet identify the most relevant prooftext:

"If all prophesy, an unbeliever or outsider who comes in is reproved by all and called to account by all. The secrets of his heart are revealed, and so, FALLING ON HIS FACE, he will worship God (1 Corinthians 14:24-25)."

In the context, Paul presents his expectations for the proper exercise of the gifts of speaking in tongues and prophecy during public worship. Note his expectation for how the work of the Holy Spirit impacts the beneficiary of a prophetic word: the beneficiary neither sits there to absorb the Word nor kneels down in prayer; rather, he falls on his face, overwhelmed by conviction from the Holy Spirit.
This is the pattern expected by Paul, but not a prescription for how it always must be. In the OT people often fall on their face when they experience "the glory of God." But the experience of being overwhelmed by the Spirit does not mean coerced falling. In a highly emotional or ecstatic state falling can seem natural or inevitable. Thus, a highly emotional Jesus does not lie down or kneel down in Gethsemane to pray; rather, He "fell on the ground (Mark 14:35)."
 
Lanolin said:
Hmm no, cant think of any when apostle lays hands on someone they fall.

Eutuchys fell asleep and also fell out of a window when Paul was preaching all night. They thought he was dead but laid hands on him and he came back to life, he was alright. Nobody pushed him out the window though.
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Paul pray and he raise, not pray then fall.

This video preacher pray then people fall

It is opposite

 
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Is it unbelievers. That happens in a lot of evangelistic churches because most people that go to them are not believers yet so they get convicted and fall down. It doesnt happen with believers so much. However it shouldnt be that anyone is pushed down its just hearing the word of prophecy.

Paul also fell on his face when Jesus first appeared to him, as he was yet Saul and unbelieving. Jesus did not push him.

I would think if any preacher tried to push someone to fall down they would be a false preacher.
 
As I demonstrate in both "slain in the Spirit'" posts, falling backwards in response to the laying on of hands is only one form of being slain in the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 presents Paul's expectation on this matter.
 
Lanolin said:
Is it unbelievers. That happens in a lot of evangelistic churches because most people that go to them are not believers yet so they get convicted and fall down. It doesnt happen with believers so much. However it shouldnt be that anyone is pushed down its just hearing the word of prophecy.

Paul also fell on his face when Jesus first appeared to him, as he was yet Saul and unbelieving. Jesus did not push him.

I would think if any preacher tried to push someone to fall down they would be a false preacher.
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What happen to slain in the spirit now, is happen to people in the church. My cousin was Christian from his born, every time he go to revival meeting he fall.

I never read about apostle pray for people than they fall.

Peter say to saphira than he die, It is punishment
 
From my lifelong experience of manifestations of the Spirit in church I've concluded that 95% of these are "of the flesh." Satan likes to counterfeit what is most helpful and transformative in the work of the Spirit, but the 5% that is real makes it worthwhile to endure and discern your way through what is counterfeit. As I've noted, my experience of speaking in tongues as a 16-year-old several decades ago is by far the most treasured day of my life, and I still regularly draw spiritual nourishment from the very memory of that day. My experiences of the word of knowledge are also among the highlights of my life.
 
Lanolin said:
Is this for a theological exam or something...sorry cant help you.

Although..anais and saphirra did both drop down dead when they lied to the Holy Spirit. Does this count as being slain in spirit? Dont know you tell me.
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Define Slain

slain
verb
Definition of slain

past participle of SLAY
transitive verb
1: to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbersbroadly : to strike down : KILL
2: to delight or amuse immenselyslayed the audience
intransitive verb
: KILL, MURDER
Choose the Right Synonym for slain
KILL, SLAY, MURDER, ASSASSINATE, DISPATCH, EXECUTEmean to deprive of life. KILL merely states the fact of death caused by an agency in any manner. killed in an accident frost killed the plants SLAY is a chiefly literary term implying deliberateness and violence but not necessarily motive. slew thousands of the Philistines MURDERspecifically implies stealth and motive and premeditation and therefore full moral responsibility. convicted of murdering a rival ASSASSINATE applies to deliberate killing openly or secretly often for political motives. terrorists assassinated the Senator DISPATCH stresses quickness and directness in putting to death. dispatched the sentry with one bullet EXECUTE stresses putting to death as a legal penalty. executed by lethal gas
 
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MadHermit said:
As I demonstrate in both "slain in the Spirit'" posts, falling backwards in response to the laying on of hands is only one form of being slain in the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 presents Paul's expectation on this matter.
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1 Corinthians 14:34-35 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

34-35 Let women be silent in church; they are not to be allowed to speak. They must submit to this regulation, as the Law itself instructs. If they have questions to ask they must ask their husbands at home, for there is something indecorous about a woman’s speaking in church.
 
Ah, you spotted the typo ( 3 instead of 2). The right prooftext of course is 1 Corinthians 14:24-25.
 
Lanolin said:
Hmm no, cant think of any when apostle lays hands on someone they fall.

Eutuchys fell asleep and also fell out of a window when Paul was preaching all night. They thought he was dead but laid hands on him and he came back to life, he was alright. Nobody pushed him out the window though.
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Well he really did not come back to life

That example is like with Lazrus a parable that speaks of the ressurection on the last day. Both were spiritual alive having believed the word of God having passed from eternal death to new eternal life.

Hands are used to represent the will of God. They were used after he fell. "Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him." They not to catch to prevent the fall. God is not served by human hands as if he needed anything from the clay he is forming Christ in. Those who seek after a signs and wonders gospel to confirm the idea they are being filled to the rim.

They need human hands or a helmet to prevent a accident.
 
garee said:
Well he really did not come back to life

That example is like with Lazrus a parable that speaks of the ressurection on the last day. Both were spiritual alive having believed the word of God having passed from eternal death to new eternal life.

Hands are used to represent the will of God. They were used after he fell. "Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him." They not to catch to prevent the fall. God is not served by human hands as if he needed anything from the clay he is forming Christ in. Those who seek after a signs and wonders gospel to confirm the idea they are being filled to the rim.

They need human hands or a helmet to prevent a accident.
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More confusion.

Eutychus was physically dead, just as Lazarus and Jesus were physically dead. Eutychus and Lazarus were restored to earthly life. Jesus was resurrected.

The hands don't necessarily represent anything in this story. Your use of unrelated comments in Scripture to make doctrine for today is simply unsupportable. Acts is a record of what happened, not a series of parables.

Nobody that I have come across "seeks after a signs and wonders gospel". You still don't provide any direct quotations of people doing that. Until you can, your position is in error.
 
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