I have never said the manifest signs are evidence of a true believer...but Mark 16 does lay out the signs that will follow a believer???
Most people have the power within and upon to manifest...they just have wrong teachings/doctrines. Can you manifest something you do not believe exist?
The church question was something to ponder! If satan cannot hinder a church then where is the power in most churches?
You are clearly a hypocrite and I say that in all sincerity and honesty.
You say that people should do the very things you believe in, and yet you yourself cannot do and find impossible to do. How hypocritical is that?
Two of the "gifts" following Mark 16 are stated here:
Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;
--But, hypocritically, you tell others they should do this, but won't do it yourself. What else is it, if it isn't hypocrisy? Don't allegorize the verse away. I know what the Greek says. It means exactly what it says. It was demonstrated in part by the apostle Paul, when a poisonous snake attached itself to him, and the pagans of the island thought that he would die. He shook it off into the fire, and then they thought he was a god.
Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the
venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Acts 28:5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Why not imitate Paul if you think these signs are for every one. You would be hypocritical not to. And why are you telling others that they should partake of the same when you won't do it? That is hypocritical.
Have you had your daily dose of Draino? HCl perhaps?
You claim to speak in tongues but you cannot.
Which languages have you spoken in? Cree? Mohawk? Maori? Hindi? Polish? German? Which?
That is what the word "tongue" means--"language." They were actual languages that people knew. But you don't know what language you speak in, and cannot know for it isn't a language. There is nothing Biblical about what you do that you call "tongues." It was something that was not practiced in Biblical times, except in the pagan past of the Corinthians (1Cor.12:2).
You cannot heal as Peter healed. Acts 5:16.
Acts 5:16 There came also a multitude
out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
--That is a demonstration of the gift of healing.
You say these gifts are available to all. Why don't you have them? Why don't you demonstrate them? Why are you so hypocritical in that you say others should practice them, but you can't practice them yourself.
When is the last time you performed a miracle--walked on water perhaps?
