[Church_of_Christ] Re: Holy Spirit 3
Greetings Kent, ED replying
George K. Howsepian wrote: George: If the promise [of "spiritual gifts"] was for me, shouldn't I have received what was promised?
Kent: Sounds logical, but I might point out that this logic results in a conclusion based on personal experience rather than on God's Word. A book I read a year or two brought this point home: most of us don't reject the miraculous because of what the Bible says, but rather because we don't experience the miraculous, and then force-fit our experience into our understanding of what the Bible says.
ED: It is logical! Think about it. Ac 2:38. When one is baptized he is promised the gift of the HS. He receives all that this involves. Ray believes that a necessary part of this gift is a personal experience of the supernatural. This personal experience is the chief thing for which he is arguing. So it is not out-of-bounds to point out that George, or you or I have received the gift of the HS (God keeps his promises) but have never experienced a supernatural manifestation. Consequently, it is not a "force-fit" to review the scriptural promise and raise the question of whether the gift is manifested the same way in every case. To do so is to discover that it is not. The apostles received the HS just and you and I, but it was manifested in them so as to insure their apostolic authority, Ac 2:43 & 5:12, 13. Others at Pentecost received the gift of the HS bit did not manifest supernaturally. Had they done so, the point of 2:43 and 5:12, 13 would have been lost.
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