Misconception #2: 'Tongues aren't for everyone.' Another misconception is the idea that believers can receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit without the evidence of speaking in tongues. Speaking with tongues is not the infilling of the Holy Spirit, and the infilling of the Holy Spirit is not speaking with tongues— but they go hand … Continue reading Misconception #2 – Tongues aren’t for everyone
The Greek mind had great difficulty accepting the concept of the resurrection of the flesh. They had been steeped in Plato’s “immortality of the soul” doctrine and his claim that the flesh was the “prison of the soul,” and that all physical substance was inherently corrupt. To the Greeks, escaping the body of flesh and ascending into the “celestial spheres” as pure “spirit” was the goal. Consequently, the idea of the resurrection of the flesh meant permanent imprisonment in inherently corrupt matter, and permanent confinement to this material creation.
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