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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
Tongues are mentioned in only 1 out of 21 epistles. And in the epistle they are mentioned in we are asked the rhetorical question "do all speak in tongues?"
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I have no problem believing that one can be born again of the Spirit and, for one reason or another, miss out on the blessing and benefit of tongues. We all are going to miss out on blessings and benefits we were supposed to have. Humans are full of ignorance and weaknesses that do at times hinder us from receiving what God is trying to give us. Tongues are no different.
The real issue to me is not "do all speak with tongues'. Rather, it is 'when are we born again?"
I see nothing in Acts that indicates the Spirit came automatically at the moment of belief. There was a delay of moments to days. Paul would not have asked the men of Ephesus "
did you receive the Holy Ghost WHEN you believed?" if it was a by gone conclusion that the Spirit was received immediately upon believing the gospel. Furthermore, there is not a shred of scripture that teaches one if first "
born of the Spirit" and later "
baptized in the Spirit".
Of course this is problematic to those who are hung up on "
instantaneous salvation".
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