Originally posted by PurposeToMelody
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I'd also like to say that if you read YOUR bible you'd see that speaking in tongues is something JESUS left for us.
Since you already clearly don't care what we say, I'm going to give you a link to a secular source you might respect which explains clearly why your nonsensical "tongues" is NOTHING but Satan's trickery:
The Christian Post gives us a look into the mind of Pastor Brady Boyd, Senior Pastor at the New Life Church, the Colorado Springs, CO megachurch founded by disgraced pastor Ted Haggard. As part of a sermon series on The Supernatural — wouldn’t that be pretty much any sermon involving gods and demons? — Boyd covered “speaking in tongues”.
Glossolalia, or “speaking in tongues”, is also known as “ecstatic speech”. Speakers believe that they are speaking in another language, and others believe they can interpret it. What do linguists think?
In his 1972 book, Tongues of Men and Angels: The Religious Language of Pentecostalism, University of Toronto linguist William Samarin described glossolalia as:
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Boyd’s congregation doesn’t have Coloradans suddenly speaking fluent Swahili or Russian. That’s the recorded “miracle” of Acts 2; the apostles spoke fluently in existing, real languages they did not know:
Does that sound like the “miracle” from Acts 2 to you? Or any sort of a “gift”?
Glossolalia, or “speaking in tongues”, is also known as “ecstatic speech”. Speakers believe that they are speaking in another language, and others believe they can interpret it. What do linguists think?
In his 1972 book, Tongues of Men and Angels: The Religious Language of Pentecostalism, University of Toronto linguist William Samarin described glossolalia as:
. . . meaningless but phonologically structured human utterance, believed by the speaker to be a real language but bearing no systematic resemblance to any natural language, living or dead.
More explicitly, glossolalia:consists of strings of syllables, made up of sounds taken from all those that the speaker knows, put together more or less haphazardly but emerging nevertheless as word-like and sentence-like units because of realistic, language-like rhythm and melody.
Other researchers have come to the same conclusions, that the speech produced in an ecstatic state is a mishmash of sounds from the speaker’s native language — not new sounds or sounds from other languages not known to the speaker — with no perceivable organization or meaning....
Boyd’s congregation doesn’t have Coloradans suddenly speaking fluent Swahili or Russian. That’s the recorded “miracle” of Acts 2; the apostles spoke fluently in existing, real languages they did not know:
Acts 2:3-4 “And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
Acts 2:8 “And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”
Acts 2:11 “Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.”
Far from speaking and hearing in different languages, Boyd’s congregation has Coloradans blabbing in something a step below baby talk — which often has an attempt at meaning behind it, unlike Godly gibberish — and calling it “God’s language”, while others decide what is intended and “interpret”.Acts 2:8 “And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”
Acts 2:11 “Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.”
Does that sound like the “miracle” from Acts 2 to you? Or any sort of a “gift”?
I'm sorry that you feel the way you do about the message.
An adulterer is not someone who "uses and abuses sex", it is someone who breaks his or her wedding vow of fidelity. Jesus wasn't saying that addicts wouldn't get into Heaven (and how cruel and unfair would that be, if addiction is truly a disease?). He was saying people who commit forbidden acts (sins) will not get into Heaven. And where do you go if not Heaven, friend?
Jesus does love everyone, if you read the new testament it seems to say that we are supposed to love everyone. hate sin. not the sinner.
Second, read Ecclesiastes 9 and Revelation 20-22. You will then understand that when you die, you are unknowing until the Resurrection at Judgment. God will resurrect long-dead sinners from unknowing death, so He can tell them that they sinned, and then torture them forever in His Lake of Fire.
This you call "love"?
What kind of a sick monster do you worship, anyway?
Also, for future reference, maybe you should try and get to know someone before you bash them for no reason....just a suggestion though.
Originally posted by PurposeToMelody
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Also, please tell us where the Bible says you can continue to sin just as you did before, after being Saved, and still remain Saved. You might find a good answer in 1 John 2:2-4 or in 1 John 3:1-9.
How do you know that I'm not a pastor?
You are the most arrogant people I have ever had the displeasure of coming in contact with.
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