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Desire to be a vessel of honor unto the Lord Jesus Christ?
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Taking the time to pray? Christ is the answer in times of need
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Depending upon the Holy Spirit for all you do?
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How are famous preachers sometimes effected by sin?
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These Signs Will Follow Those Who Believe (Mark 16:17)
- Thread starter Alfred Persson
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I agree, but it doesn't state that fact in scripture.
That being said, we can't be sure they didn't all start speaking in tongues after they received the gift of the holy Ghost...just because it isn't mentioned.
Where did Peter mention "confessing Jesus is Lord publicly"?
Please don't add more than what is written.
Jesus said we could tell false prophets by their fruit. (Matt 7:15-17)
The same truth applies to us converts.
That is slanderous. I never said anyone's experience is from Satan.
I have had experiences from Satan or his demons. Because that has happened to me, I don't trust experiences.
Not yours, not mine.
I only trust the Bible.
But it is a fact, humans can generate convincing self delusion about almost anything. So things can be "of the flesh" and not "of Satan".
AND because Christians can fool themselves, (I have done it), I don't say xyz means someone isn't a Christian.
I cannot possibly know that.
Everyone must Examine themselves:
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?-- unless indeed you are disqualified. (2 Cor. 13:5 NKJ)
We can, Jesus is never wrong. But He didn't say "you will always know everything about their private lives."
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So yes, fruits reveal whether one is of God or not.
But we will never know the fruits of everyone. Con artists are skilled at presenting themselves as your friend, and you may never know it was them who pick your pocket.
Like I said, every day someone is exposed for wrong doing, who no one suspected was doing wrong. Jesus' words only apply to them, after they have been busted.
He made plausible arguments for the "majority text." Using informal logic he presented his case. I think he proved it "beyond a reasonable doubt." That is the best we can do logically.
But a man of Faith can choose to believe God, and I am sure it will be counted to him as righteousness.
Nothing is gained for Christians when they doubt what God said.
I agree "arguments from silence" are weak. BUT not if silence is "impossible". For example, if a person doesn't breathe for days, that "silence" likely proves the person is dead. Theoretically, there could be other explanations, but in all probability, the person is dead.
Because the NT does reveal when people spoke in tongues etc,. and these times are seen as special, it is "impossible" the Bible not reveal the 3,000 saved that day spoke in tongues, if they did.
Alternatively, if 3,000 saved today during an Evanglist event began speaking in tongues and prophesying, could they be silent about it? No, therefore neither did that happen in the book of Acts. The 3,000 did not speak in tongues etc., that's why its not recorded they did.
As for your second question, I did not add to what is written:
"Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. (Matt. 10:32 NKJ)
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Being a person of faith, I can choose to believe God in the Alexandrian text of the NT.
Oz
Alfred,
Codex Sinaiticus is a 4th Century Greek Alexandrian MSS housed in the British Library and is considered to be the oldest Greek MSS known. There are portions of approx 5,000 Alexandrian MSS in the world.
The Greek NT that Erasmus used for the KJV was the Textus Receptus, dated to 1516. This means there was was a period of approx 12 centuries for copyists to add variants to the NT. I remember the copybook days from secondary school and the errors I made in copying documents. Purely accurate copying remains part of our imagination.
Oz
Clarification: The gifts are available today and always will be for the faithful. As the Bible says, “GOD'S GIFTS ARE IMMUTABLE. (Romans 11:29).
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Non sequitur, a hasty generalization. The TR was faithfully recopied continuously through the centuries because its use wore out old copies. But Greek Alexandrian (and others) were so corrupt and such bad copies no one used them. Unfortunately, non-use preserved them in monasteries, garbage dumps, trash cans etc., leaving them for textual critics to find and make a name for themselves, and secure steady employment.
The Alexandrian mss were so bad they littered the local garbage dump with thousands of copies.
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Which Cooper is winning the argument? Was so confused he needed a clarification?
You've taken "not letting your left hand know what the right hand is doing" to a whole new level.
Inquiring minds want to know, where will Cooper go after he loses the argument?
They mean the same. Immutable and unchanging are homonyms. We know God is unchanging as are his promises which are immutable (unchanging).
The HCSB, NASB, AM, LEB, WEB Bibles have irrevocable.
The King James and NET Bibles have Immutable.
Other translations have unchanging.
Strongs G276 ametathetos a derivative of G3346; unchangeable, or (neuter as abstract) unchangeability: - immutable (-ility).
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Clarification does not mean change.
Clarification and change are different words (grin).
Examine yourself.
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A test? Almost everything you said is incorrect. Homonyms are spelled the same. The KJV reads "without repentance"; G278, not G276. You are right G276 is a derivative of G3346 but it doesn't appear in the verse and so is irrelevant.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance (278). (Rom. 11:29 KJV)
278 ἀμεταμέλητος ametameletos {am-et-am-el'-ay-tos}
Meaning: 1) not repentant of, unregretted
Origin: from 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of 3338; TDNT
I have had enough of this play on words. Whatever you say, God and His gifts are unchanging. I am reminded of the JW translators.
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Yes, its nappy time for both Coopers.
I don't need this.
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Our course they are not, as he plain states they have no power, but only a “form” of godliness, because they resist the Holy Spirit power; the baptism with the Holy Spirit; THE ONLY GOD ORDAINED WAY FOR US TO HAVE POWER.
JLB