Does God Correct False Doctrine Through Gifts?

[RonMurray]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Has anyone experienced God correcting a church on false doctrine through tongues and interpretation? Both Trinitarian and Oneness churches exeperience the gifts, how come God isn't correcting them all on their false doctrines?

I've never heard an interpretation or prophesy that sounded like it was correcting false doctrine. The closest I have heard to confirming doctrine was an evangelist preaching Acts 2:38, baptism in Jesus name. At the end of his message there was tongues and interpretation that said essentially "My prophet speaks the truth to you today, why do you not obey?" But I've never heard one that was doctrinal, mostly just warnings and encouragements about following Him

From RonMurray:

That's an intetesting question. I've thought about that, too. It seems that God leaves it up to us to preach the truth, and then backs us up by His Spirit to confirm His word.

There are Pastors and churches of various denominations though that God has delt with and shown the truth. I even remember the story of Bishop Bonner of Solomon's Temple in Detroit back in the early 90's. He just passed away last year. It was actually one of the confirmations God had given me in answer to my prayer to let me know that it is the will of God for every believer to be baptized in the name of Jesus. I heard Bishop Bonner on the radio tell the story of the Pastor of the biggest Baptist church in Detroit who came to Him and said that God told Him to go there to be baptized in the name of Jesus. So he was baptized in the name of Jesus, and then received the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues. But the sad part is that after that, the devil blinded him to speaking in tongues as the evidence or sign of receiving the Holy Spirit, and came back again and told Bonner that the only reason why he spoke in tongues wasn't because he needed to, but because Bonner told him that God would give it to him.

There are things in the Apostolic church that I wonder about and have prayed about, and wonder why God hadn't delt with the church about. But the Bible does say that there must also be heresies. Yeah, I just now remebered that, and revelation and understanding is coming to me now. So we must continue in the faith, preaching the truth, and praying for one another. These are the days spoken of in Daniel, that they who do know God will do great exploits.

The Lord bless you and keep you until the day of Christ, brother.