You don't understand the Holy Spirit and His full function then. Gifts of the Holy Spirit is a small part of who the Holy Spirit is to the believer.
There is nothing wrong with asking someone to provide the verses in the Bible that they are basing their belief or opinion about.Shouldn’t need proof if you know God, Biblically. Let’s stop this needless banter, it’s one of the things God hates between brothers and sisters in Christ.
Suzie's cat was at death's door (said the vet).
Yes, as that just might be the hardest thing for us to do when studying the Bible, as all of us come to the scriptures with what I call a religious gridlock , as we have poresumptions that we come to and try to get proved in the Bible, instead of the Bible giving to us our theology!
The Holy Spirit when he comes and indwells us, is the One that gives to us the empowering to now live for Jesus and to be witnesses to Him, and to have fruit in our lives, but the spiritual pride and the bad theology that is being produced in many Charismatic circles tells me that the Holy Spirit is not really part of that Charismatic Chaos!
Since much of what Charismatics presuppose has no scripture backing, how can we know what ones that you are relying upon though?Sorry, unfortunately at times the farm needs me lol
Anyways, I completely understand the function of the Holy Spirit. This discussion however that I participated is about speaking in tongues, which edifies the Spirit of God. And my points were all about remaining in the "will of God." If you remain in the "will of God," you maintain a personal intimate relationship with God. And as you grow more with God, the gifts become apparent in your life. Now, none of us have all of the gifts. But some do have more than one.
From all of your answers, I would conclude that you have never seriously fasted. Gone days even weeks at a time rejecting the flesh by keeping in the WORD and in constant prayer. You can sense the presence of God like you have never before. You will unselfishly begin to edify God unlike never before. And you will begin to speak in the heavenly language like you have never before.
In fact, Christ said to His disciples who could not cast a demonic entity out, fasting is required for such a task.
Something else that struck me odd about our conversation. You asked for scripture references. If you actually knew the WORD of God, you would know what scriptures I was eluding to by the things I spoke about. This is a Biblical forum. I guess you could say I was therefore guilty of assuming that you were grounded in scripture. Shame on me then for assuming
I have a question about what you said in paragraph two.Sorry, unfortunately at times the farm needs me lol
Anyways, I completely understand the function of the Holy Spirit. This discussion however that I participated is about speaking in tongues, which edifies the Spirit of God. And my points were all about remaining in the "will of God." If you remain in the "will of God," you maintain a personal intimate relationship with God. And as you grow more with God, the gifts become apparent in your life. Now, none of us have all of the gifts. But some do have more than one.
From all of your answers, I would conclude that you have never seriously fasted. Gone days even weeks at a time rejecting the flesh by keeping in the WORD and in constant prayer. You can sense the presence of God like you have never before. You will unselfishly begin to edify God unlike never before. And you will begin to speak in the heavenly language like you have never before.
In fact, Christ said to His disciples who could not cast a demonic entity out, fasting is required for such a task.
Something else that struck me odd about our conversation. You asked for scripture references. If you actually knew the WORD of God, you would know what scriptures I was eluding to by the things I spoke about. This is a Biblical forum. I guess you could say I was therefore guilty of assuming that you were grounded in scripture. Shame on me then for assuming
I see it too. As a matter of fact every thread I participate in with them weakens their argument for me. Both from a Biblical sense and the words they use and lack of humility/spiritual superiority.
First. I never look at providing scripture references myself as a negative thing. Because even if I know the reference myself, there are many people reading the thread that may not know. Part of our responsibility in knowing God’s Word is to share our knowledge. I haven’t studied for 30 years only for myself, but to hopefully help and inspire others.Sorry, unfortunately at times the farm needs me lol
Anyways, I completely understand the function of the Holy Spirit. This discussion however that I participated is about speaking in tongues, which edifies the Spirit of God. And my points were all about remaining in the "will of God." If you remain in the "will of God," you maintain a personal intimate relationship with God. And as you grow more with God, the gifts become apparent in your life. Now, none of us have all of the gifts. But some do have more than one.
From all of your answers, I would conclude that you have never seriously fasted. Gone days even weeks at a time rejecting the flesh by keeping in the WORD and in constant prayer. You can sense the presence of God like you have never before. You will unselfishly begin to edify God unlike never before. And you will begin to speak in the heavenly language like you have never before.
In fact, Christ said to His disciples who could not cast a demonic entity out, fasting is required for such a task.
Something else that struck me odd about our conversation. You asked for scripture references. If you actually knew the WORD of God, you would know what scriptures I was eluding to by the things I spoke about. This is a Biblical forum. I guess you could say I was therefore guilty of assuming that you were grounded in scripture. Shame on me then for assuming
What definition do you use for “edify”?
