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Originally Posted by Esaias
Nobody is saying the gift of tongues is necessary to know if one is saved or not. You are arguing against a straw man.
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No, I most certainly am not arguing against a straw man. Unless you have gone to a different type of OP churches than I did. It is a signature belief among the OP that unless you speak with tongues, you are not saved. Are you saying you don't believe that?
Answer me this question directly: One might never speak in tongues, but still be saved? Yes or no?
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Originally Posted by Esaias
You DO add to the scriptures, with this idea that all speaking in tongues is the gift of tongues. And you take away from the scriptures with your idea that people can receive the Spirit without them speaking in tongues as a result.
The Bible is clear, those who receive the Spirit speak in other tongues when it happens. There is not ONE INSTANCE in the book.of Acts of anyone receiving the Spirit and NOT speaking in tongues.
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Really? Then what about this passage?
Acts 16: 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Tell me where in that passage, after being saved, did they speak in tongues?