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To: Quix
So, what do you say to your Presbyterian friends who say that

as a Pentecostal do you pray to the Holy Spirit? If so, then according to the Presbyterians, besides being in their words "damnable heretics", you shouldn't be praying to the Holy Spirit AT ALL


168 posted on 03/01/2011 2:09:54 AM PST by Cronos ("They object to tradition saying that they themselves are wiser than the apostles" - Ire.III.2.2)
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To: Cronos; Quix

I’m neither Quix nor a Pentecostal, but as someone who’s beliefs match up with his fairly well, despite my status as a Freewill Baptist, I can say that I/we view it as nothing more than speaking to the Third Person of the Trinity and therefore right and good.

Granted, there’s a certain way of doing so, a protocol if you will, as the Spirit is not the Father or the Son and has His specific place and portion in our lives which is different than the Father’s or Son’s portions.

For example, just as the Father wills something to be done and the Son makes it possible, the Spirit guides us in doing it. It would be misguided, therefore, to ask the Spirit what the Father’s will is or to thank the Spirit for the Son’s redemption of us, but not misguided at all to acknowledge the Spirit’s work in our lives to guide us in the Father’s will or remind us of our redemption by the Son.

Does that make sense?


191 posted on 03/01/2011 8:09:11 AM PST by paladin1_dcs
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