Recent content by jiminpa

I don't see anything in the Bible that says that the mission of the Holy Spirit ends once someone is converted. In fact, I can't find the command to make converts in the Bible. I see that we are to make disciples, and see making a convert listed among the woes of the Pharisees.

There's a large amount of amplification of an individual verse out of context there, as well the Gnostic origins of reformed theology, all while claiming scripture as the primary source. What does the last statement in John's Gospel account say about all of the manifestations being recorded in...

The irony in that, not on your side of it, is that an adherent of reformed theology is arguing that scripture is the end all be all but labels himself by his identification with the teachings of men who got their teachings from a Catholic/Fatalist.

So you hold the theology that if something is not listed specifically, it is not valid, like using computers to evangelize. The Holy Spirit equips and comforts believers as well as convicting non-believers.

What? So the Holy Spirit is not connected to physical manifestations? Tongues of fire? Healing? Floating metal? People being in one place one second and somewhere else the next? Something is not adding up to me there.

Romans 10:9 AMPC Amplified Bible because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Put your complete trust in Jesus and righteousness...

The unpardonable sin is exactly what the Bible calls it, and Jesus elaborated on. It is to blaspheme, (speak out against God), the Holy Spirit. You can blaspheme Jesus, and be forgiven. The Pharisees claimed that Jesus, who had the Holy Spirit, had a demon, therefore calling the Holy Spirit a...

I prayed, and will continue to pray.

Since this thread has been resurrected, Any claim of an aspect of God that is not His love is opposed to the Bible and is false doctrine. Loveless "holiness" is paving bricks on the road to Hell, or even a holiness that diminishes love. A holiness that would have someone tell God, "no," is not...

I think that it's very questionable to make exclusive rules bases on such statements. Can prophesy serve to edify, exhort and encourage, clearly. Can it also serve to warn and correct, from other scripture, I think, it's also a clear, "yes."

Funny thing is she's praying what I said to her on Sunday for me, and so is my pastor. He says it's only fair, but I don't think it's fair at all. There should be a no boomering clause in anything I say to people I love. They don't see it like that.

...and yet, our enemy is defeated, and greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. How can it be both? I don't know, but it is. I have a friend who is downright angry at how hard life has gotten, but I know that God has great things for her. I wish I could hug her until she sees...

I've never thought of it like that. If I understand, then, you're viewing the term spirit of Christ more poetically, as a way to express the new creature we become and not as Jesus's Spirit, different from the Holy Spirit.

Myers-Briggs INTP. Intuitive analytical.

The explanation of the verse lies in the verse. 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. At the last trumpet. Yes, we are new creations at the moment of salvation, but we...