Posted on 01/21/2015 3:13:38 PM PST by NYer
Ping!
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The Holy Spirit and His gifts are given to the church as a whole, as HE will.
Acts 2:17-18 And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
Who are these “Professionals?”
The looney liars in the pulpets that have drummed up all the fantastic scenarios?
The Bible is self interpreting.
It is written to be understood by everyone.
Yeshua told his disciples that we are all equal, there are no “experts,” or “great men.”
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>> “Scripture makes no mention of *professionals* when it comes to the gifts of the Holy Spirit.” <<
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AMEN!
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What do you do if the idiocy in the article made you want to puke?
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pulpets
new word?
2 Peter, Chapter 1:
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy, unto which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts,
20 knowing this first: that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in olden times by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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Come to the playground and get eddikated!
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Tell Google about it.
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From what I read the experts are often surprised by unexpected developments.
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We can’t be reading our prophecy from the Bible, its too biased.
What does the ACLU handbook say?
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Joe 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Joe 2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Yes, that is indeed the passage that PETER was quoting from.
It’s kind of like “alters”.
No it's not. If that were true, then ALL christians would believe and accept the same truths of christianity. Instead, we have more than 30,000 different denominations all claiming to have the truth.
....”Instead, we have more than 30,000 different denominations all claiming to have the truth.”.....
Why should that be surprising to you?.....even catholicism has various parts and branches of those who their own idea of faith and practices. Nothing new about that.
“Scripture makes no mention of *professionals* when it comes to the gifts of the Holy Spirit.”
Actually the OT does. There were jewish prophets who as a class usually derived through family birth. Frequently God would raise a prophet from outside of the prophet class, to correct and contradict the wrongheadedness of Israel, the prophet class and King.
Maybe I’m not surprised you dont’ know that.
True, but often that's because they weren't looking. Before I retired I used to make a living as a technological forecaster. Most "unanticipated" technological advances actually are foreshadowed by things that "didn't quite work," or which had something missing. Properly interpreting those "leading indicators" is an important element in forecasting technological change.
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