RE: Speaking In Tongues
October 22, 2008 at 7:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2008 at 8:14 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 22, 2008 at 12:39 pm)chatpilot Wrote: It's true some Pentecostal churches that I have preached in during my ministry days used to teach that to it's congregation.I have had to counsel many a downtrodden Christian who felt that they were doing something wrong because they could not recieve the gift of tongues no matter how much praying they did.I've only really read/heard of quotes from the bible, etc.
They (the Christians) based themselves on Acts 19:2,3,and verse 6
2He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
3And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
6And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
If you are interested read the entire chapter to get some better insight on it.
I'd like to read the whole bible - and maybe even the Koran...just to learn more about religion. But I find it rather boring to read too much at once - I'd have to read it/them very slowly indeed.
I don't have to read theology (if I've used that word correctly) to have reasons not to believe in God...it only helps with the immorality issue.
All I have to know is that God is highly complex and he's supernatural, so he's extremely improbable.
And on the morality issue, I'd say the fact believing in God is a delusion is what does the harm.
Theological study of the evil of religion, (which Theologians never seem to really address enough) is just about the details - and the degrees of its evil. I have a general sense of that anyway. And TGD has greatly enlightened that sense.
But the argument from improbability in TGD, particularly chapter four: "Why There Almost Certainly Is No God", - is what helped me the most on the problem of religion, - I'd say.
So I, basically, find religious theology(etc) rather boring to read, unless I just read it occasionally, - in small stretches.
I don't need to know much about theology to think God is highly improbable. I don't really need to read ANY theology to think that. Just as I don't need to read the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to dismiss Pastafarianism. If I ever read the Gospel of FSM, I'd probably do it mostly for a good laugh, lol.
