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 11/23/13 11:07 PM |
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Let's be careful not to discount the spiritual gifts, including tongues, just because people abuse these passages to justify babbling and barking like dogs. The abuse of these passages and what passes for speaking in tongues does not discount what Scripture says.Also, for anyone to say, "If there are spiritual gift still today why are people being not being healed and resurrected?" First of all, how do we know people are not being healed and resurrected? Are you everywhere all the time? Secondly, in Matthew 13:58, it says about Jesus, "Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief."--Were the "gifts" not available to Jesus in Nazareth? Also, in Samuel we are told, "Now the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation." Be careful to discount portions of Scripture (for example, being a so-called "cessasionist") because certain groups have misused and misunderstood those gifts. Please consider the whole counsel of God! |
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| 3/22/13 3:21 PM |
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Anne, God bless you for sharing; what a heart-rending decision you had to make. I also pray for an end to abortion. My husband and I experienced losing a child through ectopic pregnancy several years ago. Ectopic pregnancy is looked at differently because the baby cannot survive it and, if not terminated, the mother's life is in grave danger and almost certain death. I really struggled with this. The baby was not going to survive, but inside of me I struggled with what was happening to my baby. In the end, after many days of crying myself to sleep, I had to trust that God knew what He was doing; He still does!I also grappled with questions like, "Why do we have the termination of pregnancy down to a fine science, including several different methods, yet why hasn't anyone found a remedy for ectopic pregnancies? Surely in this day and age of such medical wonders as in-utero surgery we could learn how to move an improperly implanted embryo (like in ectopic pregnancy) and implant that embryo in the correct spot. I might have tried that, even if there was some risk to myself... But that option was not even close to there, because we live in a culture of death, not a culture of life. "Come, Lord Jesus!" and have mercy on us. |
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| 1/23/13 2:22 PM |
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New Testament "sorcery" is Greek word "pharmakeia."Revelation 9:20 "Neither repented they of their murders nor of their sorceries (pharmakeia), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts" Revelation 18:23 "And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (pharmakeia) were all nations deceived." All nations deceived by "pharmakeia." Of course it's sin that is the problem, not drugs, necessarily; but there is a warning in here about what is sin... We want quick fixes to our problems instead of putting in the time to cultivate a relationship with our Creator. I'm not saying no one ever needs drugs; I'm saying let's not be deceived that a little pill is the answer to our ills. |
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