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To: Tax-chick
Why is any one person so concerned about how any other person speaks to God? We’re His children. If He doesn’t want us to pray any particular way, He can say, “Shut up and go to sleep now, already.”

LOL! I honestly don't care what goes on between a person and God, because, If the person is sincere, God WILL teach him how to pray. Sometimes that may involve being still and knowing God. The concern I have over the so-called gift of tongues in use today is when people insist that, in order to be saved, one must be "filled with the Spirit" or "baptized in the Spirit" - demonstrated by "speaking in tongues". They make this a mandatory exhibition and actually question a person's sincerity if he doesn't "get" this gift. To me, that is wrong and cannot be proved by Scripture. Paul even said in Corinthians that not everyone gets the same gifts, so that means the one who didn't speak in tongues was no less a real Christian than one who did.

35 posted on 06/14/2013 9:14:13 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
when people insist that, in order to be saved, one must be "filled with the Spirit" or "baptized in the Spirit" - demonstrated by "speaking in tongues".

Okay, I can see your point.

42 posted on 06/15/2013 4:05:25 AM PDT by Tax-chick (It's a caaaaaaaat!)
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