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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
What do you mean? If it is the initial/relating to the beginning evidence, then how can there be another evidence?
Some use Acts 19:6 to prove that you can prophesy as one sign. This verse is simply showing that the "gifts of the spirit" taught in I Cor 12-14 were instantly in operation.
You don't have to have maturity to operate in the gifts, although, the gifts will mature you.
As far as I can see in the Word ( Acts 10:45-46) and until God shows me differently, I don't see there being any other evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost but tongues.
I wouldn't contradict nor belittle someone's experience with God either. It doesn't mean that I have to agree that they have the correct understanding. My BIL once asked me why "feeling joy" when you repent wasn't a sign to mean you had received God's Spirit. I showed him what I saw in the Word because he asked. Otherwise, I would have smiled and said nothing.
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How did you come to that conclusion?
Then the tongues that were understood at Pentecost were also a gift of the Spirit?