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Originally Posted by Mr. Smith
So here's what I find interesting and really it's probably the main point that I wanted to make with this.....You say, "False doctrine." Well, this fellow would look at your theology and say, "False Doctrine."
Why decides who's right?
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Good question.
Let's sort through his points on a thread. I think what we have in scripture would settle most of it. Cessationists are people who have never experienced tongues, yet tell everyone else that what they have experienced is either 1) Not real, 2) demonic or 3) emotional babble ... or maybe all of the above.
It seems the video doesn't deny tongues, except that they were in foreign languages (though he seems to deny that's available today). I could (myself) list 3 examples of times when someone spoke in tongues in a foreign language and someone else was there to understand it in their native tongue.
Of course, the "prayer language" that is obviously unintelligible is harder to prove to someone who hasn't experienced. But it's clear, even in Paul's writings, that there is a tongue that edified no one else because it's unintelligible.
So... my answer to "who decides":
You decide. I decide. He decides. We have the Word, experience and witness of the Spirit to help us.
Mr. Smith, I have no doubt about being wrong on this. I could be wrong in how I theologize it. But that it's real and for today, I have no doubts. Some people like to be in control of all things spiritual, and this is an area where they aren't
