Name: Elisha
Age: 17
Height: 6'
Eyes: blue
Hair: brownish-blonde (it's spiked most of the time)
Ok, so now for the interesting (or not) parts: 1st and most importantly, I am 100% SAVED by Jesus Christ who payed the debt for my sins with His blood on the Cross!!!
I feel called to preach by God, so Lord-willing I will be attending Hyles-Anderson College in Hammond, Indiana after high school when I graduate in '09 (The BEST class!)
My denomination is Independent Fundamental Baptist
God, Church, and Music are a big part of my life
I don't try to uplift myself by doing good deeds, and I'll admit, I don't always take the opprotunities that God gives me, but I try to obey Him and whenever I can help someone, I try to do what I can. I try to base my life on Romans 12:1 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your resonable service." and Psalm 30:12 "To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever." Ofcourse, I can never fully live up to these standards, because like everyone else, I am still a worthless sinner, but I am Saved by a merciful God :]
There's only ONE life, there is only ONE Bible, there is only ONE God, and there is only ONE way to Heaven!
Anything else you wana know, feel free to ask :]
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*******WHY I DON'T SPEAK IN TONGUES!!!!!*******
Actually, the "gift of tongues" and the "baptism of the Holy Spirit" is Biblically non-existent in the form that Charasmatics use it.
Let me explain...
The Day of Pentecost...people spoke in tongues...
The word Tongues simply means "language" ...not gibberish
When the people were speaking in the gift of tongues, they did not speak in some miraculous God-inspired language... They were speaking their own language, but the miracle was that other people from different countries could hear every different language in their own "tongue" (language)
Example:
I don't speak Hebrew...I speak only English...but if a friend of mine speaks Hebrew, and doesn't speak English...when we talk to each other, we cannot understand what the other person is saying... That is how it was on the day of Pentecost...but the gift was... (back to the example), if me and my friend received the "gift of tongues" as on the Day of Pentecost, me and my friend could speak to each other and he could understand my English in Hebrew, and when he spoke Hebrew, I would be hearing him in English, even though I don't speak Hebrew, and he doesn't speak English..
Plain and simple...
Oh, and btw, the wonderous gifts of miracles, signs, wonders, and "tongues" ended with the Apostles. Jesus only gave those gifts to the apostles! When the Apostles died, so did their gifts of performing miracles and signs... Also, when they died, the Bible was completed, therefore signs and wonders were no longer needed to show people God...they now had God in the completed form of the Bible!
Plain and simple...
Not trying to argue, but enlighten
I can give more info if anyone is interested...thanks for your time in reading this...just trying to help spread the Truth of the Bible
A QUESTION YOU MAY BE ASKING:
"Funny cause i have personal experiences that says other wise"
MY RESPONSE TO YOU:
Really?
Well, why don't you consider a Buddhist who spends his time meditating all day to reach a state of "nirvana"...his mind goes blank and he has an expirience too, but does that make what he's doing Biblically right?
I don't believe the Bible ever says anything about trusting your feelings or living life on "expirirences" you claim to have.
Satan can just as much give someone an expirience as what God can. Therefore you cannot base Biblical truths off of an "expirience" you had.
Now, true, salvation is an expirience...it involves a change in and out...but it does not involve tongues or any physical or mental expirience...it's a change of mind...nothing more, nothing less..
The Charasmatic's so called "tongue" is not a known language! Think of this, the Bible says that "God is not the author of confusion"...then why would tongues be so confusing to "those who can't speak it"? Why would God give something to one group of people and not everyone? Isn't salvation offered to anyone who accepts? Isn't salvation simply stated in the Bible? Then why is "tongues" different? Why is "tongues" so confusing and hard to understand? Why does tongues have to be interpreted? Jesus never had an interpreter, why would he give people a language that needs interpreting? Jesus never spoke in tongues, and neither did the apostles. If you will look in the Bible, you will find no evidence that can hold up to the rest of the scriptures in the Bible that supports the tongues theory. I guarentee it!
*refer to what I wrote earlier about what tongues really are and why the Apostles spoke with tongues, not gibberish...
Feel free to try and prove me wrong I can give as much scripture to prove there is no tongues as necessary.
Once again, thanks for you time in reading this...not trying to argue, but to enlighten Please don't be offended
-RockSolid87
