Amazing Picture!

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Pianoman

He could be the next William Branham!!!!!!!!!

PM with Keith for a Dad???? I dont think so-

If you look at the bottom of the picture there is another similar spot at the bottom of the photo, along the same vertical line...

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by Pastor Keith

This is a picture of my middle son Colby receiving the Holy Spirit during a 1st Grade Class prayer meeting. The teacher of the class took these pictures, upon looking at them I thought it to be ironic that it showed these flames above his head as he prayed under the anointing and power of the Spirit.

What do you think? Is it Real, bad lighting/exposure, or something else entirely.

I don't always look for the super spiritual answer to normal occurrences, but I don't think this to be coincidental.

Bump!

[scotty]

Originally Posted by Margies3

If we believe that tongues of fire sat on them in the Upper Room when the Holy Ghost first fell, why would we not believe that it could happen today? It certainly could!

I guess my only question becomes: why would God choose to show Himself in a photo but not to those present at the time? I'm not saying that this was not the Holy Ghost!!!! I believe it was or at least could have been. I'm just wondering about the ways of God.

Not sure God "allowed" anything. I wonder sometimes how often something like this is present but our minds eye don't see it ? You often hear of children seeing angels and things because they are innocent and more believing than adults. Several times God had to open the eyes of the unfaithful or not "fully" believing so they could see what was there all along. I think there are alot of things we don't see because we have been weened from such things actually existing. After all, how many times have some here asked why the tongues of fire don't appear.

Just imagine what we would see with adult like knowledge and childlike faith.

[Praxeas]

Playing the skeptic....why is it on the day of Pentecost they supposedly could see the flames but today stuff like that only shows up after a picture is developed?

Is that a chalk board in the background? I can see a silhouette in the background and an orangish blur...was this a digital cam or a film cam?

[Praxeas]

BTW I always thought the "tongues of fire" was really a metaphor ...it does not actually say tongues of fire but "tongues LIKE AS of fire"..not "flames sat on each of them"


I think it was a description of the speakers speaking in tongues and the action of their physical tongue at the time.

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

BTW I always thought the "tongues of fire" was really a metaphor ...it does not actually say tongues of fire but "tongues LIKE AS of fire"..not "flames sat on each of them"


I think it was a description of the speakers speaking in tongues and the action of their physical tongue at the time.

What I think is interesting is something I've learned while studying Hebrew. Esh...means fire. Unless you're talking about a person or God. Then it means passion. I know Acts is Greek, not Hebrew, but it's interesting how many Hebrew idioms and thought processes made it into the NT. I sometimes wonder if fire....wasn't talking about passion there. To me, it'd make a lot more sense. Those people didn't need another sign..and tongues of literal fire would be there and gone. But that passion would live on and go with them and be a sign in itself. Just one of the strange things I think about sometimes.

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Playing the skeptic....why is it on the day of Pentecost they supposedly could see the flames but today stuff like that only shows up after a picture is developed?

Is that a chalk board in the background? I can see a silhouette in the background and an orangish blur...was this a digital cam or a film cam?

Some background about the picture.

It was in my Son's Colby First Grade Class, it was at Stockton Christian School.
The class was taught my a wonderful Christian Lady named Mary Byrd. Most if not all the children that circulated through her class received the Holy Ghost in the morning devotional time. The children would pray together, if it seemed the spirit was moving she would go with that. The # of children getting the Holy Ghost in her class over the 30 years she taught is countless.

So with the background, she called my wife who also was helping at the school in another grade. A picture was snapped while she was helping to pray for Colby.

It was a film picture and taken in the classroom.

I am not saying it is this or that, that is why I submitted it for approval. But allow me to play advocate for it being a glimpse into a spiritual phenomenon.

It was the exact moment he was receiving the spirit.

The light/exposure was in the form of flames

Why would a poor exposure shape itself in with those two exact hard to match coincidences? Something to consider.

[Sweet Pea]

Keith - you are so right about Sister Byrd.... Only eternity will reveal the number of children who she prayed through to the Holy Ghost. Her goal each year was to make sure that every child in her class received the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. So this happened in their class in the morning prayer - not in the sanctuary at a chapel service? Awesome!

[OneAccord]

This IS an amazing picture. Sig? Supernatural? Coincidence? I don't know. But it is definitely amazing. And, as someone else said...priceless.