YOu said a lot and have responded to a ton of post on here as well, so I can't blame you for forgetting the argument I was responding to here. It wasn't an important one though so lets move on.
It wasn't that I had forgotten what you had written but that I couldn't understand what you had written. The sentence from you that I quoted just didn't make much sense.
Easy the trigger word. Whenever I say hallelujah for example I tend to go into my unknown tounque. For some they say JESUS and they start. (this doesn't apply for all though, some don't speak in tounques as often as others and vice versa) (some like myself tend to do this often).
Is any of this biblical? Do you have any teaching in Scripture anywhere that says, "Use a trigger word to determine if your tongues are a demonic fake"? I don't know of any...You might want to consider the following passage:
Matthew 7:22-23
22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
Jesus says here that many will use his name in association with wonders they perform but he will deny knowing them as his own and will cast them out from his presence at the Final Judgment. It seems pretty clear here that just using Jesus's name does not guarantee that what you are doing is of him. Even if you do wonders in his name, you can be totally separate from him and on your way to hell. So, your "trigger word" idea doesn't seem very biblical to me...
Trust me coming from a guy who has a pastor who has cast out demons in church and is an expert in that area... the devil tends to flee or respond in a way when you utilize the name JESUS.
But as I just showed, using Jesus's name doesn't guarantee you are acting in his will or are even one of his.
Sure the devil is the antichrist but you have to remember he's not the equal of christ. The bible says at that name every knee must bow, that is in heaven, on Earth, and below the Earth.
Actually, the verse you're thinking of from
Philippians 2 doesn't say every knee
must bow but rather every knee
should or
will bow. When? Well, at the Final Judgment, for sure. Prior to that time, however, only
some bow their knee to Christ.
Acts 19:13-16
13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches."
14 Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?"
16 Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Here's an example of the very opposite of what you claim to be true. Even though the Jews were attempting an exorcism
in the name of Jesus they failed and were attacked and injured by the demon they were trying to cast out. Jesus's name is not some magic spell, then, that just anyone can use to exert authority over the demonic.
There is also evidence suggesting the bible itself isn't accurate and half of it isn't reliable. Some scholars suggest Noah's Ark didn't happen either and many events in the bible never happened.
The Bible scholar I quoted isn't one of them. Dr. Metzger is, however, among the majority of Bible scholars who look at the evidence and see that the last twelve verses of Mark 16 are later and illegitimate additions to the text. Metzger isn't just following some bias he has against the Bible in this matter but is reacting to the evidence that clearly shows the verses you quoted as spurious. So lumping Dr. Metzger in with every skeptic who dismisses the Bible shows you don't know who Dr. Metzger is and that you aren't really thinking carefully about how you arrive at your conclusions about Scripture.
We can't believe everything historians and such think is my point.
Well, unless you've got good reason to doubt those historians, you ought to consider what they are saying about history. Simply dismissing the evidence because "some historians may not be completely trustworthy" is intellectually lazy. If you want to be "rightly dividing the word of Truth," you must look at the textual evidence for and against
Mark 16:9-20 and accept it only if you can prove it isn't in error. Can you? Do you have proof that what Dr. Metzger has said about the textual evidence for the last twelve verses in Mark 16 is false? Have you looked at the manuscripts? Have you studied out what the reasons for rejecting these verses actually are? If not, you aren't in any position to deny the claims of someone like Dr. Metzger who has.
I would also like to simply point out that I bet you that scholar simply didn't believe in
acts 2 and looked for a reason to push that aside.
Instead of betting, why don't you do some research on Dr. Metzger and find out where he's coming from as a Bible scholar? Unfounded speculation is a fast road to being deceived.
I mean Thomas Jefferson did this stuff as well with his Jefferson bible, just take out stuff you don't like by justifying doing so to the public in some way.
Maybe Jefferson did. But this doesn't prove anything about
Dr. Metzger and his motives for rejecting Mark 16:9-20. Metzger isn't Thomas Jefferson.
Maybe utilize the reliable argument that actually convinces many not to believe the bible, that a lot of it supposedly has been tampered with (it has to a degree though prob), and use this to justify not following certain portions.
This isn't what Metzger has done. He doesn't suggest the entire Bible is under suspicion. The way you're trying to dismiss his research here is pretty careless and lazy.
The devil has good devices gotta give him that, he chose a portion of the bible that gives us power over him to be "proven" illegitimate.
The devil has nothing to do with it. The textual evidence is what it is. And the passage in Mark 16 doesn't give us power over anything. It is God through Christ who has given us the victory over the World, the Flesh and the devil.
I mean the verse straight up says cast out devils in JESUS name, I see why he used the scholar prob to try and lower its legitimacy.
You've talked yourself into a point of view here for which you have no evidence. Ignoring the textual evidence Dr. Metzger cites, you simply
assume the devil is at work creating a false "scholar problem." Again, this is very lazy thinking that will lead you straight into being deceived. I would urge you to be like the "noble Bereans" who studied out everything they were told by the apostles to "see if these things were so." (
Acts 17:10, 11)
Selah.
