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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
Speaking in tongues and salvation is the very reason this thread is continuing on in this way, because that is really the main issue and reason tongues are such a hot subject. Are they, or are they not necessary for salvation? Can you answer that question?
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The answer is no, tongues are not necessary for salvation. Which is what I and many others have been saying all along. What we are saying, is that when you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost,
you will speak in other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance. It's not a requirement for salvation, it's a simple fact.
Let me try a different tact, and phrase it slightly differently.
When you eat your fill, you will be full.
Being full isn't a requirement of eating your fill, it's simply a fact that when you do eat your fill you'll be full.
There is absolutely no accounts in the Bible, where we're explicitly told someone did
*NOT* speak in tongues after the infilling. Yes, there are accounts where it's not mentioned or recorded, but that doesn't automatically mean that it didn't occur. Yet every time that evidence is recorded of the infilling, the one consistent bit of proof is speaking in tongues.
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