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Originally Posted by martydavis
All I can add as I end this thread is - If you have never experienced the infilling of the Holy Spirit and His POWER with the evidence of speaking in tongues then all you can do is look for some sort of vague scripture to back up your argument that it has ended, repeat the words of others that have never experienced it and said it has ended, and then walk away empty.
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Your experience is completely and totally irrelevant when you are dealing with other people. Since the Bible tells us:
2 Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
It would be foolish for any of us to accept that an experience of signs and wonders (especially when they do not line up with Scriptural patterns) is de-facto proof of anything. Since the return of Christ for the Rapture is imminent, we should adopt that position that signs and wonders are "lying," not the other way around. Even the power to raise the dead will be a lying sign (Revelation 13:3), so don't be surprised that many of us are
suspicious first of these claims. God is done giving signs to the Church; the just are to walk by the faith of Christ, not by sight. Attempts to convince people with signs and wonders is walking by sight, not faith. In the Bible, signs are
always given to people who lack faith -- even Moses was given signs because of his lack of faith. A reliance on signs and wonders is a sign of spiritual weakness and a desire to walk by sight, not faith.