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Originally Posted by mfblume
Believing in the bible did not mean what we think today. It involved more. Jesus stated in John 17:20 that we must believe on him through the apostles' words. And when we read references to the need to believe such as in 1 John, without any clarification, we must go to where they actually preached to people, in Acts. There we find the full deal with how to believe and what it entailed. |
We believe on Jesus through the apostles words by reading what the apostles recorded about Him, more specifically the words of Jesus Himself.
You guys think someone can read every word Jesus spoke in the gospels and die lost without Acts. Missing the whole point of what it is to believe in Christ and willingly blind to the fact that even if we take the book of Acts as the handbook of salvation, the only people who spoke in tongues were the apostles, Cornelius' household, 12 Ephesians, and possibly the Samaritans in Acts chapter 8. This ignores the fact there is no indication that the 3,000 on the day of Pentecost spoke in tongues, the 5,000 of
Acts 4:4, the Ethiopian eunuch in
Acts 8, nor anyone else spoke in tongues. And also the plain meaning of
1 Corinthians 12:28-30, to say nothing of trying to force a cryptic tongues message into the new testament over the simple, clear, and oft repeated message that salvation is freely available to all who will repent of their sins and trust in Christ as Savior (no strings attached).
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