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Originally Posted by bishoph
1. Does the spirit of God indwell a person at the point of belief/repentance?
2. For those that believe one can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost without speaking in other tongues as the spirit gives the utterance, what is the visible/tangible sign/proof that one has received the spirit?
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Number one: No, not normally.
Number two: Tongues is normative as the initial evidence, though was very rare until the early Pentecostal revivals. That raises the question of the experience of great revivalists such as Wesley, Finney, Witfield. Spurgeon, and many more. Their lives certainly demonstrated the fruit of the Spirit. But I still see tongues as the normative initial evidence and teach it as such. But I certainly won't be surprised to see a few non-tongue talkers in Glory.
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