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  1. Albion

    Gifts of the Holy Ghost

    First, it's hardly MY idea, in as much as 2000 years of Church history and the great majority of Christian churches, both Catholic and Protestant, oppose the innovations of the anabaptist wing of the Reformation whose followers practiced REbaptism (where's that to be found in scripture?). That...
  2. Albion

    Gifts of the Holy Ghost

    I can only conclude from that reply that you don't have a reply. Nobody here mentioned -- let alone having actually endorsed it -- the idea of writing one's own Bible.
  3. Albion

    Gifts of the Holy Ghost

    So...reading the word of God won't work?? :unsure: It's this sort of ultra-literal approach to every last thing in Scripture that leads to the kind of mistakes I was referring to in my previous post.
  4. Albion

    Gifts of the Holy Ghost

    I think we'll find that that isn't so. What you're saying is at you are generalizing from an example or two found in scripture, but not that scripture identifies one and only one valid method, etc. It's the same mistake people make when they think that infant baptism is wrong simply because...
  5. Albion

    Tongues and the Signs and Wonders Ceased, here’s why

    He didn't say that the Holy Spirit is no longer active in Christ's church today.
  6. Albion

    Gifts of the Holy Ghost

    The signs are associated with the Apostles as you indicated. And that's not all. That is just one example of things pertaining to the Apostles, the first clergy of the Christian church, which were believed in the first century to be authoritative precisely because they had been deliberately...
  7. Albion

    Gifts of the Holy Ghost

    Some people think that's the case, but it's difficult to argue categorically that there have been no instances of some of these gifts being manifested since then--along with plenty of bogus claims, to be sure. And we all know that God can gift someone if he chooses, no matter what the time...
  8. Albion

    Gifts of the Holy Ghost

    I don't know who you have in mind when saying "many," but if you are thinking of people who are called "cessationists" by charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, that's not a correct description of what they believe. Cessationists believe that the gifts ceased to continuously be a part of the...
  9. Albion

    Disagreements between Catholics and Protestants

    That could be what people said, but the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception refers to the circumstances of Mary's birth, not Jesus's birth. And the doctrine of the Virgin Birth doesn't refer to sin at all, being that it's a reference to the teaching that Mary conceived and gave birth to Jesus...
  10. Albion

    Disagreements between Catholics and Protestants

    Many people confuse these two different doctrines and think that when the Immaculate Conception is mentioned, the meaning is that Jesus' own conception and birth were sinless. That's a mistake, but of course Jesus, being God in the flesh, indeed was sinless, so I can understand how some people...
  11. Albion

    Disappeared after the pandemic

    Of course, and they are suddenly concerned that we should use a new and different definition of a recession, I've noticed.
  12. Albion

    Disappeared after the pandemic

    I dunno. The "rebound," such as it was, was brief and artificial. Now we've had two consecutive quarters of economic decline--the definition of a recession--and are working on a third, all the while we're experiencing the worst inflation in approximately 40 years and the economists say that it...
  13. Albion

    Was Elijah taken up into heaven?

    I agree with you on that. However, I wasn't referring there to just the incident with Thomas and the fingers in Christ's wounds. Jesus also had an encounter with one of the women at the tomb, with two disciples that he walked alongside and talked to over the course of miles, and with the...
  14. Albion

    what happens when holy spirit comes upon you?

    I understand, but we don't know you, therefore we start by offering general advice based on past experiences with new Christians.
  15. Albion

    what happens when holy spirit comes upon you?

    Here's an approach to take... You are way ahead of other people who leave (or just criticize) the religion that their families belong to. It is common for parents and other family members in that situation to strongly oppose that one person's choice, and they respond by making life difficult...
  16. Albion

    what happens when holy spirit comes upon you?

    It's difficult for us to advise you as we'd like because we are not living in India, but I think most of us here would agree that you need to participate SOMEHOW with a functioning church and as your health permits. Be taught and grow in the faith by way of involvement with a Christian church...
  17. Albion

    Was Elijah taken up into heaven?

    It does--Glorified versions of our present bodies, not spirits that look like humans. No, Jesus went to some trouble to prove that it was indeed him with the same body that had been crucified. Remember that he made Thomas--who initially took the same view that you are explaining--place his...
  18. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Just take care not to fall into talking as though "God" struck a deal or made an agreement with the Son as if we're speaking of two separate beings, one God and the other some kind of agent of God or a lesser god.
  19. Albion

    what happens when holy spirit comes upon you?

    Hello, Siddhi! It's hard to know what to say when anyone reports a vision that no one else--or hardly anyone else--has had. We know that the word of God (the Bible) will not be questioned or altered if an experience like you told us about is genuine. The work of the Holy Spirit is to confirm...
  20. Albion

    Pay before you pump?

    Okay. You've never seen what I referred to. We are aware that what holds true in one state probably doesn't apply in the next one. And not in every gas station in any particular city, either. However, my experience has been that there is a lot of benefit to be had from patronizing a station...
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