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Originally Posted by Brother David
Sam, filling the thread with cut-and-paste anecdotes is NOT the same as providing evidence. If "Pressing-On" is to have her case made, then we surely MUST have evidence of Acts 2:4-8, occurring in every single Pentecostal service. If she were correct, there would be reams of video and authenticated instances of linguists entering Pentecostal services and being saved by the score!
But we have nothing other than cut-and-paste anecdotes; second and third hand testimonies at best... and YOU don't even subscribe to the Three Stepper creed. |
We've all heard stories about people understanding what was said when a person spoke with tongues. I can't help but think that many of these stories are "urban legends." I have cited the ones I did because I think they are credible. Sis. Alvear speaks from experience. I have read of instances of people speaking in English in Bro. Drost's biography and Bro. Cole's biography and I think they are credible. The man named Louis that told me the story of hearing the counting to ten and then other words in a language that he recognized as Japanese was credible when he told me than over 50 years ago. Maybe I'm naive but I believe Jack Hayford and Robert Heidler when they gave first hand accounts of either speaking in a tongue/language that was understood by another or of hearing someone they know speaking in English. I trust the accounts in the book, "They Speak With Other Tongues" because the author spoke to the person himself and the author approached the subject objectively and with doubts.
Yes, I am a one stepper. I believe a person is saved at repentance prior to and separate from water and/or Spirit baptism, but I do believe in "speaking with tongues." I believe Pentecost was an exception but I do believe that at that time and at other times people have spoken in languages or tongues unknown to them but they have been understood by others.