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Originally Posted by mfblume
Any time we read of the Spirit indwelling people in regeneration, we either read people were filled with it, or it was poured out upon them, or shed forth, or they were baptized with it. These are synonymous terms, and all refer to the experience when we speak in tongues. Can you show anything different in Acts?
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In my experience of over 30 years of praying for people to receive the Holy Ghost, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, I must confess there is something deeply wrong with people needing this "Sign" to be saved.
I could go into gory details, but anyone who has been in the Apostolic Church for any length of time will admit (if they're honest), coaching, screaming, music so loud you can't hear yourself, jumping, peer pressure, and then concluding if it was tongues or not, this and much more has deemed this idea to me as being a false pretense to a true Spirit Baptism.
People can blurt out words, but claiming that God is in those words is where fallacy and failure on our part is obvious. We tell people, "You got it", but the only thing they may have gotten is relief that people/preachers are off their back.
I've also seen numerous people over the years become depressed, confused, and feeling so distraught because their effort at the altar is in vain. Then we have the audacity to tell folks, "There must be SIN in your life".
When will the nonsense stop? The Cross is sufficient!
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