Speaking in tongues
Sarah Palin's former church believes. So do many of you. It was last year that the 'spiritual gift' of speaking in tongues was the controversy the biggest group of evangelicals, the Southern Baptist Convention.
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what someone might do in their private prayer closet (speak in tongues) out of sight of any individual should have no effect to others. now if someone who is making a ministry of this that should be another issue. too much is made of the tongue issue just as it was made too much of in pauls day. i don't believe a true born again believer
who speaks in tongues privately, is liable to loose his salvation if a misunderstanding of scripture was made. there are many others issues of importance to be dealt with. that's my opinion.....
Posted on September 10, 2008 7:13 PM
This is the big 5,000 pound Caribou in the room: that Christians DARE not allow their deeply held beliefs to bleed over into the political arena - even though EVERYONE (including all politicians) has a set of values, morals and principles that inevitably inform and shape their decisions.
It is patently absurd to think otherwise.
That Christians should not engage in this ubiquitous human practice is nonsense to the max. The real point is that atheists, Marxists and Humanists don't WANT them to; so they make a big to-do about a Christian even hinting that he or she might use a biblical truth as the basis of an important decision. (Horrors!) It’s just a thinly-veiled ruse to shut down Christian opposition to the brave new socialist utopia being engineered by the Democratic elite.
Posted on September 10, 2008 9:13 PM
While I do no feel that it is any group (i.e. atheeists, etc) that are troubled by the tongues issue, the individual has the right to practice his/her faith as seen fit. Rather, I feel it is other people of the Christian realm that have problems with tongues. This is just as misunderstood today as it has been for the past 21-22 centuries. It may never be resolved.
Now, for the tongues issue as a whole; let the individual person choose the faith practices that he/she chooses to follow. Enough said.
Shalom
Posted on September 11, 2008 12:17 PM
The forked tongues of those who say they have turned down earmarks they actually gobbled up heartily are more upsetting to me.
Personally, though, I am not inclined to want to hand over the keys to nuke-you-ler bombs to someone who seriously engages in glossalalia.
That's my admitted bias, I suppose.
Posted on September 20, 2008 11:42 PM