CHAPTER 10 FAQ - THE NECESSITY OF THE HOLY GHOST
QUESTION 283 : Who or what is the Holy Ghost? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 284 : Can one be baptized with the Holy Ghost before water baptism [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 285 : How do I explain charismatic with the Holy Ghost to my teen? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 286 : Why would/does God fill those who don’t believe in his true deity (Due 6:4) and doctrine (Heb 6:1, Acts 2:38) with His Spirit? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 287 : Has tongue ceased? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 288 : If the baptism of the Spirit is the only way that anyone can get into the Church, then why do we see so many instances in the Scriptures where it says things like "the same day there were added unto them (the Church) about three thousand souls" (Acts 2:41), but yet nothing is said about anyone being baptized with the Spirit or speaking with tongues [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 289 : I am Filled with the Holy Ghost, and Baptized in Jesus name, do I have to speak in tongues often in order to stay saved? [289]
QUESTION 290 : Is ‘speaking in tongues’ for the apostles only? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 291 : Why did God choose tongues? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 292 : The tongues on the day of Pentecost doesn’t prove that it is the initial evidence, because it was spoken to the unsaved onlookers so that they might hear the praise of God in their own languages, as the book said, “because that every man heard them speak in his own language.” What do you say about that? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 293 : I received the Holy Ghost about three months ago. I talked in tongues for hours and I don’t know how. That was then. Since then I go to church and I feel the words right at the tip of my tongue just wanting to come out but can't (I've had that feeling for 2 years). So I had this question in my mind so long......I've read tracts and all and I read places in the Bible where it says "pray in the spirit" and such....but how do you? I don’t really understand this and it bothers me a lot. The questions is, do you move your mouth or does it move by itself? Is it that my mind doesn't understand what to say so it doesn’t say or something like that? Things like these I need help on because I don’t really understand. Even though it is simple, I just don’t understand it. [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 294 : Why the world cannot receive the Holy Spirit? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 295 : Who controls the distribution of the gifts of the Spirit? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 296 : Isn't the Old Testament Sabbath Day only a picture of the rest that a person enters when he places his faith in Christ and ceases from his own works (see Heb 4:9-11) by receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost? How does the Sabbath relates to receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 297 : How is receiving the Holy Ghost likened unto the giving of the law in the Old Testament? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 298 : Was the GIFT OF the Holy Ghost given before, or after Christ's ascension? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 299 : Where in the Bible do we find it specifically stated that at that time the gift of the Holy Ghost was given? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 300 : If the Holy Ghost was first given on the day of Pentecost, why does it says men like David prophesied by the Holy Ghost (Mr 12:46), John was fill from his mother’s womb (Lk 1:15) and others? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 301 : Does a person necessarily receive the Holy Ghost at the time of water baptism? One verse said, "...When they believed... they were baptized... as yet He (the Holy Ghost) was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus..." -Acts 8:5-17. And another verse says, "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord" -Act 10:47-48. [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 302 : Were the other "gifts" of the Spirit used as signs of the new birth experience? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 303 : Were the manifestations only meant to confirm certain groups, for example, Jews? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 304 : Was there only one historical event whereby all are baptized, or was it meant that each individual should personally receive the same promise? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 305 : Does the Bible teach that all those who believe in Christ have already received the [baptism of the] Holy Ghost? Or, does the Bible specifically teach believers to seek the gift of the Holy Ghost? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 306 : Does l Cor. 12:13 say baptism was experienced once for all time and for all believers on the day of Pentecost, or does it say by one Spirit we are all baptized? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 307 : How does every believer share in Pentecost? Were the outward manifestations of the Spirit meant only to be experienced at the one event on the day of Pentecost? Or are the manifestations to be experienced by every believer as a sign that the baptism of the Holy Ghost has been received? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 308 : Did the believers in the book of Acts look for a sign of their spirit conversion [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 309 : Is 'tongues' as a sign of Holy Spirit Baptism scriptural or merely built on historical data or Experiences? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 310 : Is the Holy Spirit the one and same Spirit of God? Or, is the Holy Spirit separate from 'God the Spirit'? Or, is God the Father who is Spirit the same as 'God the Spirit'? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 311 : Is the Holy Spirit an impersonal “force”... “the active force of God at work in the lives of believers today?” [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 312 : Is the “Holy Ghost the…spirit and power of the Son & Father” (Edgar Havaich)? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 313 : Is Jesus still incarnate (in flesh) awaiting the resurrection, so that he cannot be the Holy Ghost in us? Or, “It is unclear how, if Jesus were the Holy Spirit, He would be said to have "poured out" the Holy Spirit,” explain? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 314 : “‘For he shall not speak of himself’ (John 16:13). If Jesus is the Holy Spirit, this comes out something like, 'He shall not speak of Himself, but He shall speak of Himself.” Explain? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 315 : “‘God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him’ (Acts 10:36-38). If Jesus is the Holy Spirit, this comes out, 'Jesus anointed Jesus of Nazareth with Jesus.'” Explain? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 316 : "Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil" (Luke 4:1-2). If Jesus is the Holy Spirit, this comes out, 'Jesus, being filled with Jesus.' Explain? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 316 : "Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil" (Luke 4:1-2). If Jesus is the Holy Spirit, this comes out, 'Jesus, being filled with Jesus.' Explain? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 318 : “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God" (Romans 8:26-27). If God the Father is the same person as the Holy Spirit, with whom is the Spirit pleading? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 319 : Did the Holy Ghost exist before Pentecost and/or was the Holy Ghost first given on the day of Pentecost? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 320 : Is the Holy Spirit the literal “pure River of water of Life” of heaven? As one person noted, The God we meet on the last page of the Bible is triune. The Bible tells us what we will see on the bright and cloudless morning of eternity: "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb" (Revelation 22:1). [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 321 : You had said in the chapter on the Holy Ghost that tongues are apart of the spiritual nature, to which angels belong and thus we speak it now in part but at that time we will speak it more fluently. However, didn't the scripture say tongues shall ceases and thus no more language of the spirit (1 Cor 13:8)? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 322 : Was tongues for doctrinal instruction in the early church because there was no bible and hence seeing we have the Bible and more, tongues are not needed? [Click Here For The Answer]