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Originally Posted by Felicity
Yes, I've heard that interpretation but I don't accept it.
There's nothing in that Scripture to connect the blowing of the wind with tongue talking.
The wind of the Spirit blows where it will and this is for sure. It blew on me when I was 6 years of age and there was immediate response from me in that my mind, heart, will and emotions turned to God in belief and repentance. However, there were no tongues at that point.
They came 9 years later!
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That is your choice.
Check out the Greek, Jesus said nothing of the wind. It's a misinterpretation. The topic of the passage is Spirit, Jesus never deviated from it with His word use.
The word interpretted
wind, is the same word Jesus was using for Spirit. The only ones that go off on some
wind tangent are the nonSpirit filled interpreters that didn't get it. The Greek word for bloweth refers to breathing.
Joh 20:22 -
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Yet they didn't receive the Holy Ghost until Pentecost. This was a simple forshadowing.
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John 3:8, The word for sound is the Greek word for voice.
He's talking to Nicodemus about a voice that you can't understand that you hear. So is everyone born of the Spirit. We've seen it ever since Pentecost.
I'm sure that God touched your life at an early age, but we see evidence of such a thing in the Word even when people didn't receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. God Bless, Theo.
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