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If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything at all. If you have a point, make it. You are putting sentences together, but again, what is your point?

So your responses aren't conceptually linked to the messages we have been passing back and forth in this forum, but rather to one sentence you read in the OP? I am pretty sure I posted this earlier in the forum, but as someone raised in the Pentecostal movement, I can tell you that the vast...

Do you live in the Holy Land?

In scripture these commandments and other laws were given to the children of Israel, who were to be distinct from other nations. If Israel were being Pious Gentiles who lived in the nation should follow the Sabbath and also Gentile convert to join themselves to Israel as proselytes were...

You can say that about Baptists or Presbyterians. I cannot say an atheist or idolator who joins the Watchtower group or the Mormons might not see some improvement from his life and even tell him about having some answered prayers. but how is this related to what we were discussing? are you...

This looks like a derail of the thread and a tangent considering what we were discussing. Unless you are genuinely struggling with the idea of becoming a Mormon, why don't you respond to my points in a way that is relevant to the thread?

Lifestyle can be evidence of faith. Answered prayer can be evidence of prayers made in faith. Paul could see that a man had faith, and Barnabas could see grace.

If you believe God for something and you do not see it, that doesn't mean you will never see it. You can believe the New Testament teachings that Jesus will return. That doesn't mean you will never see it. Peter believed that he could walk on water, and he did it. When he did it, he could...

I think you are missing the fact that other people witnessed a miracle and Thomas dismissed it out of hand and didn't believe it. Who is the one doing that in this conversation? Believing and then seeing miracles is not the same as 'faith because you have seen.' Peter had faith and he walked...

God did a great miracle. Thomas heard about it and didn't believe it. He saw evidence of it and then believed. Jesus spoke a blessing on those who had not seen, and yet had believed. That definitely does not fit with the argument you are trying to make here.

Any claim about anything has to be evaluated on it's merit. If a Christian claims God answered a very specific multi-part prayer that an atheist might reject out of hand, and it is in line with the principles taught in scripture, I would certainly accept that that __might__ be true. If...

Here you go. 1 Corinthians 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

Is the idea that there are space aliens, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness monster taught in scripture? Scripture does teach that spiritual gifts like prophecy and the working of miracles are given to members of the body of Christ as the Spirit wills. The New Testament commands a church to allow...

If you said there were thousands of false instances of spiritual gifts, that wouldn't rule out real instances of spiritual gifts. Do you have any evidence that the I Corinthians 13 gifts are the exact same thing the apostles were doing, in all cases, also? This seems to be evidence against...

If you will notice, the Bible does not command Gentiles in their nations to keep the Sabbath, does it? Israel received laws that made them distinct from other nations. God doesn't command it to Noah. The apostles did not write to the Gentiles to keep the Sabbath in Acts 15.

We do not know that spiritual gifts have ended. there are thousands if not millions who have experienced them, and books written about such experiences.

Frank sent me a copy of his book with Barna's contributions along with a stack of other books. I haven't gotten through all of them yet.

Doctrine that relies on man's mind 'connecting the dots' is not questionable, especially when there is actually strong internal evidence from within the epistle pointing to a very different interpretation. If you will notice, the two witnesses prophesy in the book of Revelation. That should...

I wish you would take more care when asserting what the Bible says. Someone might be deceived into believing your statement. Paul does not say this. He says that when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away... in an epistle that says nothing about the...

Paul said 'let all things be done unto edifying, which includes singing in v 26.