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    My cousin thinks a book he is reading is going to give him godlike powers.

    You're actually better off avoiding such things yourself, why pursue temptation while praying that God not lead us there, and praying for God to guide him away from it as well.
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    My cousin thinks a book he is reading is going to give him godlike powers.

    It's actually more a point of what would return with them, one reason sorcery and other occultic practices are a forbidden old testament.
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    My cousin thinks a book he is reading is going to give him godlike powers.

    what is your purpose in wanting to understand his mind state?
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    My cousin thinks a book he is reading is going to give him godlike powers.

    what benefit do you expect to gain by reading it?
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    Is self hypnosis good for jesus followers?

    There are a number of differing practices that are called hypnosis, know exactly which one you are dealing with and its origin. Or just stay away from that which you don't understand.
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    To all but no one in particular: Consider water baptism as a matter of obedience if not as a requirement for or of receiving the Holy Spirit (it can be argued that the Holy Spirit can be received without water baptism). The question them becomes one of should all calling themselves Christian...
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    Bible Questions - James 1:1-4

    The first verse itself brings up several things that can be considered in detail, one the relationship of ourselves to God and also to Jesus and what can be seen as viewing Jesus as separate from God as a distinct person but on an equal basis then goes on to talk of the 12 tribes that were...
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    World BBC Manipulated People!

    When the disciples asked Jesus about the last days and the signs of his coming the first words he spoke in answer were to take heed of those deceiving people. Matthew 24:3-4 "While Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately and said, "Tell us, when will these...
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    This is pretty much how I think about it, but I recognize that the main reason I believe that way is because I was brought up as a Lutheran and that is the way I was taught. But you do bring up something important that I had not considered before, that is that baptism through the Spirit was a...
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    With so many denominations insisting that their Baptism is the only correct one to the extent that you must be baptized in their Church to be a member of it with some of them, how does one know what the correct baptism is? Keep in mind that each fully believes they are the right ones with the...
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    I'll look forward to your post, and I hope they are from the church fathers from the earlier half of the first century who either had direct contact with Jesus or were closely associated with those who did. When I look at the scriptures I find examples of the Holy Spirit being received without...
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    what scripture are you basing that on, and which scripture that suggests differently do you counter with it? BTW, it isn't 'two baptisms' as such but two parts of baptism, the water baptism first followed by the laying on of hands as shown in scripture where it is that laying on of hands that...
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    Actually, concerning baptism, the early Church was more of a mind that the Holy Spirit was a sort of two part thing where there was the water baptism itself as a precursor to the receiving the Holy Spirit which came with the laying on of hands and was evidenced by speaking in tongues. But...
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    What if you were all powerful?And all knowing?I am being hypothetical.:)

    I doubt that I would have created Man as the ruler of the world, and I would probably give fire to the monkeys instead of the humans.
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    But is that what happened, and what indicates that this was it's purpose? I see a great deal of dissention and disconnection in the early Church, not unification as brothers and sisters in Christ. In revelation it seems they were quite different from one another in their beliefs and practices...
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    When we are on the new earth.Like in the book of revelation.Will we know all?And be almost all powerful?

    I would think we would not know. In the beginning God made the Heavens and the Earth. A new Heaven and a new Earth would suggest Genesis 1:1 repeats itself. A new beginning with a new Heaven and a new Earth. But the book of Revelation tends to be the most divisive book in the Bible, spawning...
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    Man makes many explanations for what is done in the Bible accounts, but I always like to examine the arguments, preferably in a Biblical context, behind those reasons as well as the reasoning against them. So what would be the reasoning behind the delay being a work of God to show the Jews...
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    Lamb, I too was baptized as a Lutheran back when I was around 6 or 7 by the pastor of the Lutheran Church I was raised in (American Lutheran, eventually absorbed into the ELCA). I also went through Catechism in that Church and became a member of it. I know the Lutheran belief that Baptism is...
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    The promise of the Holy Spirit

    Acts 8:16 These people had been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, but the Holy Spirit had not yet come down on any of them. This is why Peter and John prayed. (ERV) This has always made me wonder, it indicates that being Baptized in the name of the Lord does not necessarily mean...
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    Once Saved, Always Saved?

    Why would yo do that?
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