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I fail to see your point among all the Scripture quotes that you have given.

All this shows that there is no strict formula about how the gift of tongues, interpretation and prophecy is manifested. Operating the gifts is totally by faith, bearing in mind that interpretation and prophecy must comfort, encourage, and build up believers - in other words, confirm their...

The visible church is designed to be a testimony to the reality of Christ in the world. If the church is functioning as it should in the Holy Spirit, then it is a blessing and a power for spreading the Gospel of Christ, reflecting the grace, love, and compassion of Christ seeking to save the...

As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, true godly authority is in the view of the person deciding whether or not to submit to the leader.

I was having a conversation with the Lord about authority and discussed about a church pastor who tried to tell me to come under his authority, and how I gave the puffed up peacock the bum's rush. A verse of Scripture came to me: "You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men" (1...

Man's wisdom tries to explain the function of the Holy Spirit but comes very sadly short and very unconvincing.

A nice bit of worldly wisdom there!

One of the big problems that I see often comes from the Pentecostals themselves. Many speak in tongues because they see that is the thing to do in their churches. All they have been told is that speaking in tongues sort of edifies oneself, but they are taught little else; hence they are...

The best teaching I received about tongues was that one had to speak from the heart with a definite intention to express praise for the wonderful grace and works of God, or intercession for someone who needs God's intervention. When someone prays in tongues like that, then the language is...

Except for the several million people across the range of denominations that actually do pray in tongues.

I go along with this bit. No he wasn't. He was telling the Corinthians to put love at the head of their agenda before desiring or using any spiritual gift. The "tongues of angels" was not a reference to the spiritual gift of tongues at all. He was talking about exalted angelic speech from...

Isn't it interesting that these people concentrate on the failures, but completely ignore testimonies of people going to foreign countries and miraculously speaking the language as they have stepped out in faith? If the truth were known there would have been more people sleeping through...

A worshiper cannot be of the devil when he or she is exalting Christ and rejoicing in His love and grace toward us. A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.

That's a moldy, old, worn out chestnut that Pentecostals and Charismatics have cheerfully ignored for years. Old news old chappie! Nice try but no cigar there!

Also, Paul did not include the word "until". He did not say that God has put into the church...[the list of the ministries] "until the church was established" or, "when the canon of Scripture is completed", or "at the end of the Apostolic Age". He says that God has put these things into the...

All one has to do is to employ simple elementary school comprehension to see that Paul clearly says that God has put the spiritual gifts into the Christian church. The trouble is that the religious conditioning of some has suspended the skill of comprehension to make Paul say things different...

In 1 Corinthians 12:28 Paul says: "And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues." I don't see "signs for Jews" in that verse, meaning that Paul never said...

I'm only joking! I have jousted with many over my years on forums, and I have had to concede only once where the guy defeated me with good logic. I had to yield to him and acknowledge that he was right and I was wrong. But that was after 30 pages of debate in the thread! :) The reference...

I have absolute respect for the military. If you have served in areas where you have put yourself in harm's way you are a much braver man than I am and you would have my absolute respect. The fact is that we all see through a glass darkly and have partial knowledge about the things of the...

I don't use tongues publicly except in a fellowship service where I know that there is someone with the gift of interpretation, so I won't be typing anything of the sort here.