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1 year ago7 points(+0/-0/+7Score on mirror)3 children
I will warn you that in your pursuit of Truth, sola scriptura will only lead you astray. Look no further than the Pentecostals, who began speaking gibberish in their vain attempt to comprehend "speaking in tongues".
Do not beat yourself up over the meaning of what translated foreign words may or may not represent. The original authors never intended for you to read them outside of their mother tongue.
Exactly this. Biblical scholarship is not to be taken lightly because it is so important to have a body of "best scholarly evidence" to rest and test your theology against
Jesus did not leave us with any written documents, he left us with Teachers and Leaders imbibed with the Holy Spirit.
If your theology doesn't line up with what early Christians did and what the Early Church Fathers taught, can it really be called Christian?
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> Look no further than the Pentecostals, who began speaking gibberish in their vain attempt to comprehend "speaking in tongues"
Yeah, im surprised that phenomenon hasn't been talked about more frequently, it honestly looks more like demonic possession or madness to me than an actual gift of the holy spirit. Its pretty obvious scripture means "foreign languages" when it says "tongues", not unintelligible gibberish. Why would Christ, who is the Incarnation of Reason, "gift" his followers with insanity or confusion?
Do not beat yourself up over the meaning of what translated foreign words may or may not represent. The original authors never intended for you to read them outside of their mother tongue.
Jesus did not leave us with any written documents, he left us with Teachers and Leaders imbibed with the Holy Spirit.
If your theology doesn't line up with what early Christians did and what the Early Church Fathers taught, can it really be called Christian?
Yeah, im surprised that phenomenon hasn't been talked about more frequently, it honestly looks more like demonic possession or madness to me than an actual gift of the holy spirit. Its pretty obvious scripture means "foreign languages" when it says "tongues", not unintelligible gibberish. Why would Christ, who is the Incarnation of Reason, "gift" his followers with insanity or confusion?