{"id":12411,"date":"2021-09-23T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:38:48","slug":"question-2-spirit-baptism-and-the-new-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12411\/question-2-spirit-baptism-and-the-new-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Question #2 -Spirit Baptism and the New Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you so much for replying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I also appreciate you explaining religion is not the goal which I agree with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When I asked if only true believers will speak in tongues, I was trying to imply that as we both probably agree on, only those who have been born again can speak in tongues. Other religions (like early Mormons or Hindus) can claim what they want but that is only reserved for those who have been born again (are Christ-followers). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But just to be sure I am understanding you correctly: are you saying the speaking in tongues is evidence that a person has been born again? In other words, if someone claims to be regenerate but they have never spoken in tongues, does that mean they are not regenerate?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you for your time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Dominic<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>I hope this makes what I am saying clear:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>&#8220;But just to be sure I am understanding you correctly: are you saying the speaking in tongues is evidence that a person has been born again?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<strong>YES<\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;In other words, if someone claims to be regenerate but they have never spoken in tongues, does that mean they are not regenerate?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<strong>YES.\u00a0 What men claim means nothing.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>If I have again not made myself clear, please keep trying.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I can do it if given enough chances!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>God bless.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you so much for replying. I also appreciate you explaining religion is not the goal which I agree with. When I asked if only true believers will speak in tongues, I was trying to imply that as we both probably agree on, only those who have been born again can speak in tongues. Other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}