[chuckles]

Well, if you are unteachable, I guess I'll dust of my sandals an move on. I thought we were having a conversation here. I guess I was wrong. Go to your church at Sardis and have a good time. If you don't want what God has for you, I guess that's it.

Luke 13:24-28.

[metmom]

I’ve posted plenty of Scripture to support my position.

Where’s yours?

So far all you have posted is opinion.

And you’re going to *shake the dust off your feet* at me why?

Cause I tell you something you don’t want to hear and you can’t refute it with Scripture?

You’d rather go with what makes you feel good than what God tells us in His word?

And *I’m* unteachable?

All you’ve done in resorting to getting snotty is reinforce the stereotype of Pentecostalism as being unscriptural and uninterested in solid teaching. And it’s NOT legalism, as many pentecostals like to accuse others who stick to Scripture of being.

[metmom]

Todd White’s focus is on Todd White.

It’s not being unteachable because I don’t want to listen to someone who doesn’t even talk about Jesus and yet claims to be Christian.

Talk about a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Well, if you are unteachable, I guess I'll dust of my sandals an move on. I thought we were having a conversation here. I guess I was wrong. Go to your church at Sardis and have a good time. If you don't want what God has for you, I guess that's it.

For the record, I've seen God's hand on my life, moving marvelously. Metmom, like me, clearly believes in the power of prayer and is a regenerated believer who loves Christ and is loved by Him. Neither of us deny the power of God, or would claim that there are no miracles.

What we simply deny is the absurdity and unscriptural practices of the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. That's all. It is entirely Biblical to do so, to "try the Spirits," and to try the supposed "miracles" like tongue speaking or gold dust from heaven or flopping on the floor like a fish.

Because we do so does not make us inferior Christians or members of an apostate church. It makes us Christians doing our best to have discernment and follow the commands of God as written in scripture.

As for "if you don't want what God has for you." For the record, again, I was a Charismatic for a number of years. What they "had" was false prophecy, delusion, and legalism. Their tongues were not tongues. Their slaying in the spirit were not slayings. They barely even had the Gospel. A friend of mine told me, who also came out of it with me, that she didn't even understand the Gospel until after she left their movement. Why? Because the whole movement is dependent on extrabiblical miracles and revelations.

Does that mean we do not believe in miracles and "extrabiblical revelations"? No. We pray for knowledge, for guidance, for help in our times of trouble. We simply do not believe in the clearly abusive and unedifying practices that contradict the holy scripture.