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Re: Pitfalls in Solely Relying on Acts for doctrin
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Originally Posted by 2020Vision
When things are common knowledge and written to Christians who've already had the experience, there's no point. There was no disagreement about tongues being evidence of God's Spirit. In some ways, Paul's letters only responded to PROBLEMS in the church.
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Paul definitely wasn't writing a systematic theology book! And neither was Luke.
The initial pouring out of the Spirit in Acts 2 set the norm for what every believer would experience when they receive the Holy Spirit.
Those against tongues as the initial evidence always require a necessary redundancy in all the conversions listed in the book of Acts. Meaning that for them it is necessary that EVERY conversion say something to the effect...and they or he/she was filled with the Spirit and spoke in other tongues.
I think "this is that" is enough. God pours His Spirit out on you and you speak in tongues!
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