[Church_of_Christ] Re: Holy Spirit 3
Your brother George K. Howsepian to our dear brother Kent West,
I haven't received any supernatural gifts from God.
Have you?
Either He HASN'T promised any of these gifts to us or He did and He hasn't kept His Word.
Which is it?
If God had promised miracles to all believers for all time, He should keep His promise to US and then, we wouldn't be having this discussion, would we?
Peace and grace to you, dear brother.
--- In Church_of_Christ@
George K. Howsepian wrote: George: If the promise [of "spiritual gifts"] was for me, shouldn't I have received what was promised?
Sounds logical, but I might point out that this logic results in a conclusion based on personal experience rather than on God's Word.
(Please note: I'm not saying it contradicts or is inconsistent with God's Word; I'm not saying one way or the other. What I'm saying is that your conclusion is based not on the text but on personal experience.)
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.
--
Kent
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