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Eating in the dream with people you don't know. What happened in real life afterwards?
How is this related to a sign gift of the Holy Spirit? I don't see any gift of dreams in 1 Corinthians 12.
 
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It's not a gift, more like I'm being shown what's happening in the spiritual realm. I asked for people with similar experience to know what I should do about it
The best thing would be to read and study the Bible so that what you are experiencing is consistent with it.
 
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It's not a gift, more like I'm being shown what's happening in the spiritual realm. I asked for people with similar experience to know what I should do about it

One can not eat from 2 tables. One must only eat from The Lord's table.
 
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How is this related to a sign gift of the Holy Spirit? I don't see any gift of dreams in 1 Corinthians 12.
Acts 2:17 quoting Joel 2:28
‘And it shall be in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams;

Luke quoted Peter here as saying dreams from God are part of the gift of prophecy, which IS in 1 Cor 12.
 
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Acts 2:17 quoting Joel 2:28
‘And it shall be in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams;

Luke quoted Peter here as saying dreams from God are part of the gift of prophecy, which IS in 1 Cor 12.
Can't argue with that! So that is why I am having crazy dreams in my old age!! :)
 
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It's not a gift, more like I'm being shown what's happening in the spiritual realm. I asked for people with similar experience to know what I should do about it
Are you sure this is from God?

I had a dream when I was in grade school that was from God. It was full of people I had never met. Somehow it stuck in the back of my mind. When I got to college, I saw several people from that dream in the congregation I was then attending.
 
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Are you sure this is from God?

I had a dream when I was in grade school that was from God. It was full of people I had never met. Somehow it stuck in the back of my mind. When I got to college, I saw several people from that dream in the congregation I was then attending.
I don't know about you, but I have had a couple of "deja vu" moments when I just knew that what was happening had happened before and I half knew what was going to come next. I wonder if I had dreamed it at one stage but forgotten the dream when I woke up, but it stayed somewhere in my subconscious? I still am not going to attach too much spirituality to it though. It is just one of those mysterious things that happen, like driving along and coming up to an intersection and just knowing that a car was going to come from my right without initially seeing it (here, we drive on the left side of the road, and we have the "right hand rule at uncontrolled intersections where we have to give way to cars coming straight through from our right).
 
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I don't know about you, but I have had a couple of "deja vu" moments when I just knew that what was happening had happened before and I half knew what was going to come next.
Yes I have had that. I have heard conversations where I could have spoken along with the persons word for word.

Ralph Martin (one of the pioneers of the Catholic Charismatics) theorized Deja Vu happens because we are eternal creatures and part of us exists (like God) outside of time.
 
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Yes I have had that. I have heard conversations where I could have spoken along with the persons word for word.

Ralph Martin (one of the pioneers of the Catholic Charismatics) theorized Deja Vu happens because we are eternal creatures and part of us exists (like God) outside of time.
That's interesting, although the Scripture is silent about it. Then there is a branch of the Catholic faith that embraces mysticism.
 
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One odd thing about this, Notre Dame University was where they held their large conferences. I lived in a town less than 20 miles from there, and attended a small independent Pentecostal church. When our pastor (who actually lived in South Bend IN) went to check it out and found out it was real, he became insensed. the following week he came into church and started screaming:

"IF God can give the Catholics the Holy Ghost, then every word in this Bible is a lie and I am no longer a christian."

He slammed his bible down on the pulpit and walked out. I never saw him again.
 
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It is unfortunate that large areas of the Charismatic movement are moving away from the literal teaching of Scripture into New Age mystical experiences, where faith is based on experience rather than the written Word of God.

One big fault of the Charismatic movement is that they believe that everything that is supernatural has to be of the Holy Spirit. So, if a person has a sensory experience like shaking, falling down, jerking, writhing around the floor like a snake, it has to be of the Holy Spirit. They cannot accept that it could be another spirit. This is where miraculous oil, gold dust, and feathers appearing in some services comes from. It is amusing that the feathers are believed to come from the Holy Spirit because some believe that He is a bird! :)

I still subscribe to traditional Pentecostal theology, but I don't support the invasion of the New Age and the occult type practices that many Charismatics seem to be caught up in these days. I go by the premise that if it ain't in the New Testament then it ain't of the Holy Spirit.
 
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One odd thing about this, Notre Dame University was where they held their large conferences. I lived in a town less than 20 miles from there, and attended a small independent Pentecostal church. When our pastor (who actually lived in South Bend IN) went to check it out and found out it was real, he became insensed. the following week he came into church and started screaming:

"IF God can give the Catholics the Holy Ghost, then every word in this Bible is a lie and I am no longer a christian."

He slammed his bible down on the pulpit and walked out. I never saw him again.
It is sad that there is intolerance like that.
I read Dave Hunt's book The Woman Rides the Beast which is an in-depth study of the Catholic church. I found that a depressing book to read, and I certainly would not be quoting any of it to my wife who was educated Catholic! Hunt presents the dark side of Catholicism.

I went just last Wednesday to a Requiem Mass in a very formal Catholic church to represent my daughter to attend the funeral of her best friend's fiance's mother. It was full of statues, and had a humongous crucifix with a life-size Jesus on the cross behind the altar. The priest spent quite a while over the Eucharist part of the service. It was quite an interesting service, although very ritualistic. I prayed that God would show them that the Holy Spirit would show the people that Jesus is supreme and that faith in Him alone will bring salvation and not the repeated sacrifice of the Mass. But I certainly wasn't going to do or say anything disrespectful to that church, its service, or anyone in it.

I have met Catholic Charismatics, and I get the impression that although the give lip service to the different traditions and doctrines, their filling of the Holy Spirit does put Jesus as Lord of their lives. And I think that it is the Lord's way of getting souls saved even in that environment. I know that our Catholic friends won't agree and I respect them and their faith, as I respect my wife's faith.

I find it hard to believe that the Pentecostal pastor who got angry was demonstrating the fruit of the Spirit in terms of love, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness and self-control, while most Catholic Charismatics demonstrate all of those attributes.
 
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I find it hard to believe that the Pentecostal pastor who got angry was demonstrating the fruit of the Spirit in terms of love, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness and self-control, while most Catholic Charismatics demonstrate all of those attributes.
Agreed. But he was brought up with the idea that the catholics were the most demonic false religion in existence.
 
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Agreed. But he was brought up with the idea that the catholics were the most demonic false religion in existence.
Calvin imprisoned just as many who would not support his "true gospel" doctrine, and had some burned at the stake. When the Calvinists were in power in England, they imprisoned thousands of good evangelical Christians as well. So, whoever is dominant calls the shots and punishes the dissenters. How many good Pentecostals were thrown out of their churches for manifesting the gift of tongues and prophecy? What about one Pentecostal pastor whom I knew who fiercely criticised Charismatics by saying "Who do these neo-Pentecostals think they are?"

The only significant Christian leader who preached and practiced religious tolerance was Arminius, and I am discovering that his teaching was absolutely Scriptural, and that he was libelled by Catholics and Calvinists alike, and perverted people's view of his teaching to make out that he was a heretic who was dividing the church when he was nothing of the sort. The ones who were really dividing the Protestant church at the time were the Calvinists with their intolerance of everyone who would not accept their doctrine of Unconditional Election, Total Inability and Limited Atonement.
 
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The only significant Christian leader who preached and practiced religious tolerance was Arminius,
Don't forget John Wesley.
 
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There's a lot of misunderstanding about Catholicism here, it's quite sad. In Every single celebration of mass, the Creed and Lord's prayers are said. Meaning "we believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ His only son, born if the Virgin Mary, we believe in the Holy Spirit" too. We believe that Jesus Christ came to die for our sins.

Now, how is it possible that someone who believes in Jesus, God almighty, and confesses both truths is still heading to hell? Pentecostals still say we are not saved. I'm afraid you don't know what your Bible says about believing and confessing these truths. It's unfortunate, this is why I will remain a Catholic for the rest of my life.
 
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Many times a dream is about what is to come, not what is. I believe when the time arrives for you to see the fulfillment of the dream you will remember the dream, recognizing the circumstances and people.
 
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