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In which case, you've obviously not had any experience whatsoever in mainline Pentecostal churches (like the Assemblies of God). Over the last 55 years, I've witnessed many hundreds of "Messages in tongues" normally from the congregatrion gathered, and almost ALWAYS immediately interpreted...

I've been a member in the Assemblies of God Pentecostal group for well over 55 years, and over that time span, I can STILL count on the fingers of both hands (with fingers left over) the times that a TONGUE was spoken as a message in a service (many hundreds of occurrences), and there was NO...

must have hit the wrong button - happens, means nothing.

I'm not. what do YOU think your selection says that I didn't???

Of course - that's what "Conviction" does. I couldn't have been Saved without it. Repentance, on the other hand, is a free will decision. Conviction, of course is the Beginning of Faith. HE made it real when I, of my own free will, surrendered, repented, and cried out to HIM to save me the...

Of my own free will when the Opportunity to choose was given again. I considered NOT doing it again, but it had been a long time since the last "Drawing/Conviction", and HE said that His spirit would "Not always strive with man".

I did - many times until the LAST time.

And EVERY DENOMINATIONAL GROUP claims the same thing, and interprets it the way they want, claiming that their interpretation is the "right one". We know. However, no question but that the LAW is eternal, and STILL in full force for those that are under it. The Christian secret, of course, is...

Correction: in most cases it's actually only YOUR PARADIGM about what the Bible teaches. All God's Chilluns gots "Paradigms". But the Bible teaches that there's ONE GOD. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - whatever that means.

Who needs a "Doctrine"??? You, and I know next to nothing about the full reality of God, so "Doctrines" based on ignorance aren't terribly important. If you've been Born AGAIN of the Holy Spirit, and indwelled by Him, then what "Doctrines" you hold are just excess baggage.

Dont know that I'd agree with that. Since the Bible is CLEAR that if you're not "Drawn" by God to Christ, you ain't coming, so there's no question that God has to do HIS thing before "Free will" ever gets to be involved. However, when GOd "Opens the door" - you CAN, of your own free will...

God. Next question??

I knew I was a lost sinner probably by age 6, or 7. But I wasn't "Born Again" until age 20, even though God and I did have some dealings before, where HE PROVED himself to me -

Just another religious "Buzz word" for "Once saved always saved"/"Eternal security" depending on which paradigm you ascribe to.

True, that.

It begins immediately when the child KNOWS to do right, and willfully DOES WRONG - Is drawn away of their OWN LUST, and enticed, allowing the lust to CONCEIVE and become a sinful act. That's the point at which they "Fall short of God's glory" and enter a "Grace period" allowing them to learn...

I DON'T HAVE a "Sin nature", and there's no such thing as "Original SIN". What we BOTH have is a HUMAN NATURE, same as Adam always had, and Jesus had (since HE was tempted just like WE ARE). TWO things were cursed after the fall - the EARTH - which was made subject to VANITY (negative...

The Bible indicates it - David's SIN (adultery and murder) were forgiven (according to nathan), but there was a "temporal cost" as recorded.

I was fortunate enough back in the '70s to attend a NAZARENE (Conditional security) Church in the evenings, because my BAPTIST (Eternal security) Church (which met in a movie theater) didn't have evening service. Fortuitously, BOTH Pastors started a teaching series on "the security of the...