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Originally Posted by Brad Murphy
But even with all of the examples, there isn't a scripture that says you must speak in tongues to be saved, so you have to make an assumption that it is a requirement.
If I write a story and describe several cars in the story, but they all happen to be grey, you could assume that all cars in the "story world" are grey, but that does not mean that there were not other colors, those are just the only ones I happened to describe...
and if I even threw in a few examples of cars with cloven tongues of fire on top of them we can just ignore those right?  |
Brad,
How do we escape what is actually going on in
Acts 2?
At the beginning it says that the a sound comes from heaven and they all began to speak in tongues (
Acts 2:4), the people observing ask questions because they are confounded by it (
Acts 2:7; 2:8; 2:12).
Peter explains to them, using the OT, beginning in
Acts 2:14 to
Acts 2:33 identifying that what they have just witnessed is true, coming from the Father and is the promise of the Holy Ghost that they are now seeing and hearing.
He gives them more information from the scripture concerning what David said in Psalms and then they ask, "What shall we do?"
Acts 2:37
They are in effect saying, "I want this. What do I have to do to receive it?"
Not much different than Simon the Sorcerer. Although, they didn't want it for selfish gain. At least, the scripture appears to show they were sincere in the asking.
Why is this so hard and not just beautiful?
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