Do we serve a "gotchya!" God?

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Originally Posted by LUKE2447

Actually I meant Acts 8 sorry for the typo. Also actually it was that God gave them the HS, tongues was just the evidence which they readily accepted the sign per there experience.

I do not argue that tongues were not a "sign" that God had added some to the church Bro. Luke.

In Acts 10 it waas a sign to the UNbelieving Jews. They would not believe that God would or could save anyone but them. Hence God gave THEM a sign that he had indeed moved intot he lives of these uncircumcised Gentiles.


Same situation in Acts 8. vs 14 ..when the apostles heard that Samaritans ( another hated Gentile cross culture) had believed they were again astonished. they could not believe that God could save such a people.

They sent Peter and John to check out this unbelievable rumor.

Again God used this sign that those at the upper room had witnessed.

These events seem in line with Paul's teaching about tongues in 1 Corinthians 14

Paul wrote that "tongues are a sign NOT to believers but to unbelievers"

In fact in the only letters that address tongues, in the letters written to the churchs, Paul does not state or even hint that tongues were to be expected as initial evidence that someone had recieved God's spirit. Not once!!