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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
It is simply that I identify the Holy Ghost as evidence of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance. Any scriptural reference to the Spirit would identify that as the same - I John 4:15; John 7:39.
If you study the word "promise" you will find this is true. You will run across his promise of salvation, promise to include the Gentiles and the promise of the Holy Ghost/His Spirit.
And now I have to run - Good night!
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And I think the bolded is the key. How can anything be added to the simplicity of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit? It seems that one could only assume the statement, "Would be given", is only "predictive". But this couldn't be true, could it? If it is predictive, the prediction doesn't come true in everyone, does it?
And this doesn't explain the absolute and correlating statements found in Ephesians and I John.
I believe the simplicity of these strong and absolute statements are part of the foolish things that confound the wise. Can it really be THAT easy? Surely not, the works-oriented religious person would say.
One of the saddest imageries I have in mind is the memory of someone "seeking" for the Holy Ghost and for months, even years, coming up empty. It's impossible for me to connect the dots of that imagery and the fierceness of Paul's "I'm writing this in BIG letters" statement, when he said it's by the cross of Christ alone that we are saved.
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