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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
First... no explicit word of God has been offered. Only a verse here and a verse there packed with presuppositions.
Secondly... It isn't emotion when someone sees real change in someone who 2 hours earlier would not have had the power to make these changes. Something changed in them that they were not able to do before. They showed signs that the Bible actually DOES say is a sign of His children.
There is nothing emotionally based about that example. That is real change in a real person condescended upon by people who can't show real scriptures for their predisposed disposition.
And... true... only God knows. But there are many more than Him willing to make the judgment in the mean time.
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Something changed in me when I repented and was baptized. It was because I "meant" that I was truly sorry and I didn't want to go back and be what I was. I didn't receive the Holy Ghost for three months, and I know that I was not saved or could have remain saved without it.
Now, I do believe that people can be delayed in receiving the Spirit of God by not focusing and teaching correctly on true repentance and what is involved in baptism. Focusing on tongues is a huge deterrent, IMO, unless that person already understands enough to seek God and not tongues.
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