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Originally Posted by freeatlast
When the assumption is that ALL will aLWAYS speak in tongues as the Samaritans and the household of Cornelius did, the ASSUPTION is indeed a false one.
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I don't think the Bible states that the Samaritans spoke in tongues when the apostles laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. But it was obvious that something happened because Simon understood they were filled with the Spirit by some outward manifestation.
How do you explain away
the sound that is heard in
John 3.
Joh 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
and this verse in
1 Corinthians 14 and
Isaiah 28?
Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
or the most compelling verses found in
Acts 10 and 11:
44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
15 And as I began to speak,
the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?