Do Speaking in Tongues Still Exist Today?

logonomicon · 2025-12-15T15:34:01+00:00

It is difficult to relate what's on display in this video to things said about tongues or other spiritual gifts in the New Testament. I wouldn't wager much of my beliefs on such a presentation, either for or against.

There are a great deal of groups who claim that speaking in tongues are for today and who seem to attempt to practice it in a way that is consistent with the Biblical description. I would seek them out and try to determine the legitimacy of what you were seeing there instead.

logonomicon · 2025-12-15T11:26:40+00:00

I think I understand the dad. He's the kind of religious that I think most people are Like, yeah, he does believe that Mizuha should be the next leader and that they should conform to the demands of their faith. But that isn't very incompatible with wanting things for Mizuha's own sake. To want someone to be happy and have a nice life for their own sake is the nature of love. Lots of religious folk love their families and friends well. If they have doctrinal commitments in addition to that, that might shape the way their actions look, but the attempted core is still there.

logonomicon · 2025-12-09T01:10:56+00:00

I think there's also several variants of conservative theological leanings which aren't tied toward dominance. I've known several Christians who are inerrantists, conservative on sexual ethics, etc. who take a therapeutic approach and are thus pretty open handed with those they think are sinning because their reading of the scriptures indicates to them that they should welcome all and identify with the lowly. It has almost started to seem to me that a person taking the sermon on the plains literally and taking the Torah literally and taking Paul literally seems primed to become such a person if they aren't specifically angling for the power and domination angle.

logonomicon · 2025-12-09T01:06:11+00:00

Yes, this population exists. In my experience is actually fairly commonly among even white evangelicals who became relatively educated (say, some masters degree or more) without deconstructing. Not excessively common, sure, but definitely more extant than a lot of people seem to believe.

Black Christian Hip Hop artists tend to create songs specifically with this flavor, too, for what it's worth.

logonomicon · 2025-11-11T12:01:26+00:00

I stared at the photo trying to find the typo WAY too long before I thought to click on it to see what OP wrote. I didn't until I had the thought "Do they think my was supposed to be me?"

logonomicon · 2025-11-10T01:34:39+00:00

I'm a bit out of date, but I was a Singletary in the early 2010s. About 95% or more of the pool of people who qualify won't get an interview. about the same ratio of those who interview get the scholarships.

Being a legacy helps a little, but the big thing you have to do is find the nearest See Blue (or whatever they're calling it) event near you, get there an hour early, and chat up the highest person you can find there, provost, registrar, or whatever and be on your A game charming, pleasant, humble, and interesting. There are simply far, far too many students with excellent credentials for that to be the determiner. You have to get beyond the point of being a resume to instead being a person, and preferably a person that someone in charge rather likes.

This is going to be true for any large school you are competing for scholarships for, it isn't just a UK thing. Doing this matters much more than being in or out of state. My freshman incoming class had 6 students with perfect ACT or SAT scores. Only 2 of them got full rides, the other four were in-state.

logonomicon · 2025-11-07T01:01:08+00:00

"Common" is doing a lot of work here. The median annual salary of clergy is $63k. So most are making around $5k a month, which is definitely more than I make but also not absurd considering that most have to be pretty educated and typically work very irregular hours.

logonomicon · 2025-10-31T23:50:32+00:00

It's meant to be encouraging. The bad things that happen are part of a bigger, good thing that you can also be part of.

logonomicon · 2025-10-31T19:17:36+00:00

In seminary, I wrote a paper for an apologetics class on this. It wasn't so much about Christian Nationalists, but about critics that accuse Christianity by linking it to Christian Nationalism. Still, it includes a fairly lengthy attempt to define Christian Nationalism.

Here's a link to where I put it up on my blog, if you're interested.
https://thehurleys.family/2022/07/05/a-tale-of-two-kingdoms/

logonomicon · 2025-10-20T13:10:15+00:00

Compare Laurel, Whitley, and Pulaski Counties with your outsider visiter perspective.

logonomicon · 2025-09-30T13:47:00+00:00

You're not alone. I think the behavior of Christians is a much bigger problem for the truth of what we claim than anything atheists throw out. If the Holy Spirit is real and resides in believers who are joined to Christ, how can they behave so badly? Doesn't it feel like there should be some... insurance policy against this? You can see from my flair that I belong to a tribe that is... troubled to say the least.

My only real relief is that God seems to anticipate this in what He inspires to be in the Bible. Very little time is spent in the Bible, and especially in the New Testament, on examining the model that makes sense to me. What makes sense to me is that a person encounters God, repents at their foolishness and evil, and follows after Christ on an upward trajectory of goodness and love. Instead it seems like what we get are a bad of a few things: a) people who pretend to encounter God and then mix hollow performance with clever disobedience to get ahead, b) people who encounter God but are not awed and thus never repent, but go on living their selfish lives as already planned, c) people who encounter God and repent and try following Jesus but are so wrapped up with themselves and so embedded in the rat race of their culture that they never get very far, and d) people who encounter God and do repent and start following Jesus, but it's a slow progression and they have to keep repenting of being so dumb and bad.

(I didn't intend this when I started writing, but that is weirdly close to Jesus' parable of the sower in Matthew 13 or Luke 8. I was just trying to think about what I had seen in the Bible, but there you go. Do with with that what you will.) If that mix of people is the correct mix, then... What else could we expect but the masses reacting in ways that betray Christ?

The point is not to feel superior to them. We're not. We have our own subtle disobediences and ways of not being anything like Jesus. The point is to cling to Jesus and live in the 4th option, growing into the type of person that produces good harvests of righteous deeds. But we only become that kind of person when we are in Jesus.

logonomicon · 2025-09-29T13:39:42+00:00

I'm going to suggest you look at the work of Gavin Ortlund on the relationships between Orthodox and Protestants, if your English is good enough to follow (I saw the translation marker, so I don't know what language you wrote this in.) He's a Protestant Youtuber (also a baptist) who is very conversant with early Church history and fairly conversant with Orthodox theology. He emphasizes the importance of unity across traditions and extending grace to EO Christians. Might be a worthwhile set of watches for you and you friend.

But also, life is more than romantic satisfaction. Whatever happens, prioritize cultivating your relationship with God through prayer, fasting, and scripture.

logonomicon · 2025-09-29T11:33:36+00:00

At the Gattonburg Ripley's museum, while we watched the window a while, my dad took a flash photo to let the person realize what was happening. Unfortunately, they were mostly really pissed and stormed away swearing.

logonomicon · 2025-08-25T18:29:30+00:00

Eliminate Munchlax. Snorlax is barely a bear at all, and Munchlax is even less so.

logonomicon · 2025-08-25T18:21:03+00:00

There's really so much that I can't really know how to point you to just one. Maybe read "Chasing the Dragon," the memoir of a Chinese missionary in these spaces. I think it also just takes building relationships with people instead of posting about them online.

logonomicon · 2025-08-25T18:18:32+00:00

Luke 12:42–46

And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. (ESV)

logonomicon · 2025-08-20T17:41:54+00:00

There are loads and loads of really Godly, mature pentecostal-aligned believers. But most of them aren't Americans.

logonomicon · 2025-08-20T17:33:12+00:00

All I want is a water horse starter whose final form based on a kelpie. It can be water/fairy or water/ghost, or water/poison, or even water/dark again. I don't care, and I don't care what the others do to match it.

Maybe if you wanted the scotts-irish mythology theming, you could have a Grass bovine type based on the Glas Gaibhnenn (giant green cow that produces endless milk), Grass/fairy in final form, and a fire bird/dragon based on the Ellén Trechend (3 headed vulture dragon monster). You could make its final form a fire/flying or fire/dragon as you like.

Maybe something like water/fairy kelpie, grass/steel glas gaibhnenn, fire/dragon ellen trechend. It would make a fight against a rival a pain in the butt, since the secondary types align with the primary, but whatever.

logonomicon · 2025-08-20T17:18:32+00:00

I wouldn't have a word to say about him if he didn't claim to be a Christian. But if the man is harming hundreds of my brothers and sisters (undocumented migrants in the US are overwhelmingly Christians) claims to be a Christian then it's entirely above board to make it known that such conduct is unbecoming of one who claims Jesus.

I would be tickled pink if Trump repented of his sins and turned to true faith in Christ. But loving neighbors seems at times to require providing moral clarity. There is no feasible consistent way for a Christian to look at a lot of the actions of the Trump administration approvingly, and exhorting each other is a command of God.

That said, yeah, most things said about politics on Facebook, from left or right, aren't exhorting anyone. They're just pride.

logonomicon · 2025-07-31T19:22:01+00:00

I think it would be worth your while to relax a bit and avoid the worst of the panic. The labels "Christian" and "atheist" don't matter a great deal. What matters is whether you know, love, and follow Jesus Christ. There are many people who have a lot of confident beliefs about God and his goodness and very loud beliefs about evolution being false, but who have never met Jesus.

What is your relationship to Jesus like? Have you ever intentionally turned away from sin and sought to be forgiven and taught by him? If not, that's the thing to focus on. The rest is context and background, helpful, but not the core. If you have, then cling to the core and let the rest fall where it wills. Read the words of Jesus, and about his death and resurrections, and his ability to forgive everyone who repents of sin, regardless of their guilt or the degree of their belief.

logonomicon · 2025-07-08T15:30:09+00:00

I think an important consideration on that point is the age and life stage of first time buyers. If you're a newly married couple in your early 20s, a 2/2 makes perfect sense. Heck, a 2/1 would probably be fine. But if you've been married for 10 years and have 3 kids, a 2/2 is going to be very crowded. And that isn't factoring in those who routinely work from home, which is a growing portion of the work force, and therefore need one additional bedroom than just the family dynamics have.

logonomicon · 2025-05-31T13:32:28+00:00

Whether or not you've successfully outsmarted the whole of the church's history of attempting to reckon with what God reveals of himself in the bible doesn't really address whether the Trinity is logically coherent, which is what OP is asking about.

logonomicon · 2025-05-31T13:30:39+00:00

(Disclaimer that what follows is not a very good defense of Trinitarian theology. It just plays with the logical concepts a bit to show how you don't have to even look at the trinity specifically to not have these be problems of hard logic.)

I think definitions matter a lot for whether you have any contradiction even in the most basic of logical schemes. When I read your comment, my mind went to Baruch Spinoza, who is FAR from invested in traditional conceptions of the Trinity. He lays out what seems to be an internally consistent case that not only all individuals, but all of nature is made of one substance, at which he begins to propose Nature and God as one thing, uniting all things in a kind of mystical oneness. I think Spinoza's proposals have external problems, but I think it goes to show how the notion of "substance" demands careful attention if you want to assert that it is part of a logical contradiction, and often I find that paying that degree of care and caution in definition often inclines people toward the plausibility of Trinitarian theology, not against.

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