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I acknowledge that any believer who is out of fellowship with God through faith in our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus is lacking righteousness in his thinking.

I don't doubt that you acknowledge this. But the point here was regarding determining specifically who has the discernment to determine who has the anointing. You have claimed that the person who "continues in that anointing and the work of the Holy Spirit within the believer provides sufficiency in the believer's thinking to discern properly." That does not help us determine specifically who has the anointing. In fact, it just makes a circle.

A8: How do we determine who has the anointing?

Pentecostal: The discerning ones will tell us which people have the anointing.

A8: How do we determine who are the discerning ones?

Pentecostal: By seeing who continues in that anointing and the work of the Holy Spirit.

That's why I said that this gnosticism destroys the possibility of Church leadership. It completely subjectivizes the determination of who are the leaders.

-A8