Since other forms of life could dominate our primitive culture maybe they play with our simple emotions and use powers that amaze us to do all types of things. Think about it …Jesus walking on water? Jesus making the death hear & making the blind see again? Moses parting the Red Sea? Winged creatures that look human fighting each other…good versus evil? All cultures around the world have experienced unknown miracles and unexplained phenomom?
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Pentecostals believe that one must be saved by believing in Jesus as Lord and Savior for the forgiveness of sins and to be made acceptable to God. Being descended from Methodism and the Methodist Holiness Movement, Pentecostal soteriology is mostly Arminian rather than Calvinian, believing that the ability to believe in Jesus is a power of the human free will.
Pentecostals believe in water baptism as an outward sign of conversion, and that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is a distinct spiritual experience that all who have believed in Jesus should receive. To be more precise, the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a separate and distinct “second grace” received in a personal subjective and often emotional religious experience. All classical Pentecostals believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is always accompanied initially by the outward evidence of speaking in tongues. It is considered a liberalizing tendency to teach contrary to this historic position. This is a major difference between Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians, who believe that a Christian who is baptized in the Holy Spirit may exhibit physical signs, including but not necessarily including speaking in tongues, such “being slain in the spirit” where people fall to the ground as if asleep or in convolutions. Most major Pentecostal denominations reject any connection between personal salvation or conversion and the Pentecostal Baptism in the Holy Sprit and teach that it is not necessary to be saved but a gift from God available to all Christians. Many early Pentecostals believed that the revival of the gifts of the spirit were a sign from God of the latter rain, a period of restoration before the end of the age and the coming millennial reign of Christ. Traditional Protestants believe that one is baptized with or in the Holy Spirit upon Regeneration, the work of the Holy Spirit that enables faith and belief in the unbelieving heart. They most often reject such concepts as a “second grace” though not rejecting the idea of periodic or even weekly renewal in the sacraments.
Pentecostals also typically believe that the Bible has definitive authority in matters of faith like most other evangelicals.
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I recently came back from a mission in Africa. While I was there, I did great things like bring them, food, water, and showed them magic tricks. I use the magic tricks to show them the power of Jesus. Once they see the trick, I tell them that if they don’t become Christians, they will burn in hell for all of eternity. Is this the fastest way to save souls? Is there a more efficient way?
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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25Behold, I have told you before.
26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
I believe God will give me the power to walk on water and turn water into wine, and heal the sick, if He knows that I am following in His Son’s footsteps. I believe God wants me to do this because if I do it, I will retroactively relieve half of Jesus’ burden.
How should I go about being martyred so that I may perform the Will of God and thereby become your half-savior? How would you like for it to happen?
Would you do the same?
Wouldn’t it mean something more, if I, who am not perfect, would do it for you? I mean, after all, you’d expect Jesus Christ too do it. He was perfect. No big deal. He didn’t even have to have any faith. God was his own Dad. What about me???
He said “This generation will not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” Matthew 24:34
Referring to the following predictions:
The sun and moon will darken, the stars will fall from the sky, the power of the heavens will be shaken, the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, the tribes of the earth will mourn, they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven. and he will send his angels to gather his elect from the four winds.
Matthew 24:29-34
He said “The son of Man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels…There will be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” Matthew 16:27,28 and Luke 9:27
Why did he say it would happen in that generation, and that some of his listeners would still be alive?
Many many generations have come and gone, the predictions remain unfulfilled.
If you don’t know the Bible please don’t bother answering.
NO IT’S NOT THE TRANSFIGURATION.
If you don’t know the Bible, don’t bother answering this one.
Referring to the following predictions:
The sun and moon will darken, the stars will fall from the sky, the powers of the heavens will be shaken, the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, the tribes of the earth will mourn, they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, and he will send his angels to gather his elect from the four winds.
Why did he say, referring to the above predictions, “this generation will not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”? (See Matthew 24:29-34, also Mark 9:1 and Matthew 23:36)
Hundreds of generations have come and gone; the predictions remain unfulfilled.
He said “There will be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”