Posted by:
caffiend
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Date: October 15, 2019 09:51PM
Traditional (Biblical) Christians believe in the "gifts of the Holy Spirit." In I Corinthians 12: 28 they are listed as:
Pophecy, teaching, miracles, healing, helps (financial empowerment), governments (administration), discernment (identifying spirits), tongues, and interpretation of tongues. Elsewhere, Paul includes:
Mercy, hospitality, exhortation (preaching), leadership, and faith.
I realize that the skeptics and non-believers will want to dismiss this as nothing but bunk; what I'm interested in things you heard taught, and believed, and perhaps even practiced. Did you hear stories about supernatural events, more dramatic than the usual faith-affirming stories about remarkable coincidences or answered prayer?
In early LDS history, there were stories of people having temple visions; I'm not asking about that sort of thing. Nor am I asking about personal promptings and "direction." What I am curious about is your acquaintance, personal or not, with "gifts of the Holy Ghost" (tongues, especially), even if, now, you don't believe it was real.