We all have a personal bias, this is nothing new. But a bias does not make a answer wrong. Are you Pentecostal? Do you have a bias? I most certainly do know when the new-age Pentecostal movement started. Do you?
If you believe the claims of the Mormon and Pentecostal movements are a fraud explain why. Explain why we should accept the claims of physical supernatural events as real from one group and not the other. If both groups claim but neither can produce evidence of their claims what difference does their theology make. They are both frauds.
BTW, I am from Baton Rouge, the home of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and am very well versed on both the claims and teachings of Pentecostalism.
yes it does make it wrong, in context to the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. this is were you and I differ, I do not even give time or labor to the "claims" of the mormon church. They deny the Deity of Christ, and that HE is God. So I teach as the Word of God says in:
Rom 16:17 "
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them."
They are false and have a spirit of anti-christ
1john 4:1-3
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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world."
and we are to LET them be. So if they deny Christ tell me why would I even concider thier so-caled claim of tongues ? Oxymornon. You say mormon and pentecostal movements are a fraud". There is your bias.
You tie in pentacostels to mormons and pentacostels do not deny the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes they have issues with the gifts of the Holy Spirit and doctrine I do not agree with but so does every chritian church. You error in this continuelly. You assume they are all frauds and you can't possiblly know that( pentacostels). But Pride will not allow you to say other wises. By the way, if been from baton Rouge the home of Jimmy Swaggart; makes you very well versed on the teaching of pentacostelism then you should know the contrast between them and mormons, clearly you don't.
JSM no more speaks for all pentacostels as the mormons do the Deity of Christ collectively because they teach against this.
Acts chapters 1 and 2 speaks for it. The Gospel of Mark and John 14, 16 chapters speak. The chapter of 1cor 12, 13, and 14 speak for it.
You are not well versed in the gifts of the Holy Spirit you have not even used one verse to make your point.
you Conjure up mormons claims and failed preachers morally . Any biblical refutes to support your claim of the gifts of the Holy Spirt? or just that you have not seen it and only abuses of the gifts that I and many others said do happen.