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The Bible is quite clear in itself. Just reading it gives us all the information we need to know. We don't need qualifying "revelation" to give us a deeper understanding of what is clearly written. If we can't understand and obey what God has clearly set out for us in the Bible, then there...

That sounds like Bethel theology where experiences overrule written Scripture.

Peter's vision was for a particular one-off purpose, to rid him of his religious prejudice against Gentiles. It was not made up of confusing disconnected symbols and shadows. It was a distinct view of definite objects, along with a distinct message from the Lord. No comparison with the...

What power do you mean? Paul said that the power of God is the Gospel of Christ that leads to salvation to those who believe it. When he told the Corinthians that he was going to come to them with the demonstration of the Spirit and power, he meant that he was going to preach the Gospel to...

Faith involves reading the Bible to find God's will, and doing the Bible to do His will. Putting faith in visions, dreams, "new" revelations, and sensory feelings is not doing the Bible. Revelation that is not consistent with written Scripture is heresy. Revelation that is consistent with...

Not leaning on our understanding is not turning our brains off and departing from commonsense reasoning. God gave us a Bible to study and to meditate on, that requires that we use our brain to use comprehension 101 to see what God is saying to us in the pages of Scripture.

I got all my information and impressions by what I read in the book of Acts. I don't see any of the sensory experiences of "electricity" or feelings of love and peace described anywhere in Acts, and therefore, if it ain't in the New Testament then it ain't of the Holy Spirit. That doesn't...

I had much the same experience. I woke up in the middle of the night with a Psalm reference going through my mind. It was so insistent that I had to turn on my light and look it up. It was exactly what I needed at that time.

I'm going to be difficult here as well. I'm not trying to be contentious, but to get you to look closely at the book of Acts, because it is there where we have the evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit. Actually Acts could be named, "Acts of the Holy Spirit". So, can you compare your...

Ah! Now we are getting somewhere! You have hit on a major form of evidence that the Holy Spirit is involved with a group of people. When there are unconverted folk present and they hear the gospel, become convicted of their sin and turn to Christ, this is a major evidence of the presence of...

I know that I'm being difficult here, but I want to test your Scriptural knowledge concerning the Holy Spirit. A sad movie can cause many in the audience to weep, so weeping in church could be put down to a normal emotional response, so to make weeping an evidence of the moving of the Holy...

It is interesting to me what evidence that people have for the moving of the Holy Spirit either in them or in a meeting. In most services that I have been in, when people have said that the Spirit moved, it could have been explained by just people feeling good, the sermon encouraging; which...

I don't know how you arrived at that. I have never, never used "lack of faith" as a reason for anyone not getting healed. Did you know that John Wesley's horse became lame during one of Wesley's journeys, and the uneven gait of the horse gave him a headache. So he stopped, raised his eyes to...

I don't really care. If someone gets healed of terminal cancer and his whole unsaved family turns to Christ, along with his uncles, aunts, cousins, neighbors, friends and workmates, then that miracle is definitely a sign to unbelievers!

The bottom line, and which our fine feathered friend doesn't understand, is that Jesus is the baptizer with the Spirit and the giver of the gifts. When He was in the flesh he demonstrated what Christian ministry was all about. Then he told His disciples that He was to go away to be their...

I think this is just a play on words and splitting hairs. A miracle in the context of evangelism is a sign that Jesus Christ is really alive today. Most unbelievers don't believe the Bible, so most of the quoting of Scripture to the unsaved is just a waste of time. There is nothing magic in...

Praying in tongues, casting out demons, and praying for miracles of healing are not limited to the Pentecostal denominations. I know that Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist churches all have continuist believers who believe that the 1 Corinthians 12 gifts are...

Using the example of manna is like displaying oranges to try and show that apples don't exist. With the manna, the Scripture clearly says that when the Israelites started growing their own food, the manna stopped. But there are no clear statements in Scripture that the 1 Corinthians 12 gifts...

How do you know they are not? Perhaps they don't go around advertising it, or they know that because of your unbelief they don't bother sharing their experiences with you. By the way, who's the "we" here? Maybe it 's just you pretending to be "we".

But where to the completed Scriptures tell us that the completed Scriptures are to replace the 1 Corinthian 12 gifts of the Spirit for our churches?