RE: Abraham, Isaac, and a Dead Toddler
June 11, 2014 at 7:13 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2014 at 7:14 am by Confused Ape.)
Theonewhoanswersyourquestions Wrote: I have evidence of our God, while to have no evidence against us, I have the miracles I have see and people in my church have seen,
Can you give some examples of these miracles and explain why you believed they were miracles?
Theonewhoanswersyourquestions Wrote: plus I have the spirit of God ruminating through me,
?????????? Am not sure what you mean here - Definition of Ruminate
Quote:1. To turn a matter over and over in the mind.
2. To chew cud.
v.tr.
To reflect on over and over again.
None of these definitions strike me as relevant to the spirit of God.
Theonewhoanswersyourquestions Wrote: when you come into contact with God it is an absolute wonderful thing, it's unexplainable and just amazing, have you ever spoken in tongues?
Have you spoken in tongues? I find it a fascinating phenomenon from the point of view of neuroscience. It's not confined to Christianity, though -
Glossolalia - Non Christian Practise
Quote:Other religious groups have been observed to practice some form of theopneustic glossolalia. It is perhaps most commonly in Paganism, Shamanism, and other mediumistic religious practices.[53] In Japan, the God Light Association used to practice glossolalia to cause adherents to recall past lives.[54]
Glossolalia has also been observed in the Voodoo religion of Haiti,[56] as well as in the Hindu Gurus and Fakirs of India.[57][58]
Shamanism, as a religion, is far older than Christianity and a form of it is probably the first religion that humans had. This seems to be why some Christians think that Speaking In Tongues Is Of The Devil.
Quote:Speaking-in-Tongues is a demonic form of witchcraft allowed and practiced in many churches today; such as Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Victory Chapel, The 700 Club, TBN, Benny Hinn, Charismatic, Church of Christ (Lax Lucado) and many Ecumenical Churches that sinfully encourage inter-denominational fellowship at the expense of Biblical doctrine and Biblical moral standards.
One of the clearest evidences from the Bible that speaking-in-tongues is not for today is the fact that the Apostle Paul ONLY mentioned speaking-in-tongues to the church at Corinth. If, as Pentecostals claim, Paul was instructing the church on how to speak in tongues, then why only the church at Corinth? Clearly, Paul was rebuking them for the carnal and worldly heresy of speaking-in-tongues. Notice carefully in 1st Corinthians 3:1 that Paul even refers to the believers at Corinth as being “carnal” and “babes in Christ.” The heresy of tongues had crept into the church at Corinth and God put it in Paul's heart to expose this wicked practice.
A form of demonic speaking-in-tongues is experienced by witch doctors, pagan religions and occultists...
(June 10, 2014 at 4:44 pm)Cato Wrote: People that speak in tongues are batshit crazy.
Something happens in the brains of people who speak in tongues.
First Neuroimaging Examination of Participants Practicing Glossolalia Shows Decreased Cerebral Activity, Penn Study Shows
Quote:Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered decreased activity in the frontal lobes, an area of the brain associated with being in control of one’s self. This pioneering study, involving functional imaging of the brain while subjects were speaking in tongues, is in the November issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, the official publication of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry.
“We noticed a number of changes that occurred functionally in the brain,” comments Principal Investigator Andrew Newberg, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, and Religious Studies, and Director for the Center for Spirituality and the Mind, at Penn. “Our finding of decreased activity in the frontal lobes during the practice of speaking in tongues is fascinating because these subjects truly believe that the spirit of God is moving through them and controlling them to speak. Our brain imaging research shows us that these subjects are not in control of the usual language centers during this activity, which is consistent with their description of a lack of intentional control while speaking in tongues.”
Newberg went on to explain, “These findings could be interpreted as the subject’s sense of self being taken over by something else. We, scientifically, assume it’s being taken over by another part of the brain, but we couldn’t see, in this imaging study, where this took place. We believe this is the first scientific imaging study evaluating changes in cerebral activity -- looking at what actually happens to the brain -- when someone is speaking in tongues. This study also showed a number of other changes in the brain, including those areas involved in emotions and establishing our sense of self.”
Newberg concludes that the changes in the brain during speaking in tongues reflect a complex pattern of brain activity. Newberg suggests that since this is the first study to explore this, future studies will be needed to confirm these findings in an attempt to demystify this fascinating religious phenomenon.
We might think that people are crazy for wanting to do it and interpreting the experience as God taking them over but it's not a sign of mental illness in itself.



