jerrywill:

We are talking about the Holy Spirit in person here...they called down fire and not the 'fire of the Holy Ghost'

why was the Holy Spirit sent to us? to consume enemies with his fire I guess

mikejj:
devil and his agent are in fire so.extra ordinary fire is need to pepe him.

Saintsammurai:
The bible said, that our GOD is mighty in battle, our GOD is a consuming fire, it is the same GOD that used fire to destroy sodom and gomorah....SO as a christian, when an enemy, a worshiper of satan has decided to bring you down just to glorify satan, then you pray for holy spirit to destroy the plans of the enemies with fire, to glorify GOD..

Addicted2Women:

Religion is the biggest scam in the history of mankind.

The Bible is a cool children's story book

A lovely heavenly father who lives in the clouds, sleeps on a gold bed but watches his children die of cancer here on earth

You mean a man who cured the sick, fed the poor,
cast out demons but couldn't handle 3 nails on the cross

A man fed 5 thousand people with 2 fishes ??

A virgin who has never been with a man miraculously got pregnant by the holy Spirit ??

I'm not mentally unstable enough to believe your stupid story and religion

Saintsammurai:
IF GOD can send down fire from heaven because Elijah asked of it,, what makes you think he cant send down spiritual fire, when the children of GOD ask for it? Afterall it is written in the scriptures that when we ask, we shall receive..

jerrywill:

We are talking about the Holy Spirit in person here...they called down fire and not the 'fire of the Holy Ghost'

why was the Holy Spirit sent to us? to consume enemies with his fire I guess

Legolast:


To whom head is given,brain is expected....
I pray it wont be long before you realise hell is real.

Addicted2Women:

Religion is the biggest scam in the history of mankind.

The Bible is a cool children's story book

A lovely heavenly father who lives in the clouds, sleeps on a gold bed but watches his children die of cancer here on earth

You mean a man who cured the sick, fed the poor,
cast out demons but couldn't handle 3 nails on the cross

A man fed 5 thousand people with 2 fishes ??

A virgin who has never been with a man miraculously got pregnant by the holy Spirit ??

I'm not mentally unstable enough to believe your stupid story and religion

FaithZion2:
This is false belief, nothing like Holy Ghost fire consume, kill, the Holy Ghost / Spirit I know is peaceful not violative, once it comes upon someone u feel, peace, joy, happiness, etc.........so they should find better things to do than deceiving themselves..........

Addicted2Women:

Religion is the biggest scam in the history of mankind.

The Bible is a cool children's story book

A lovely heavenly father who lives in the clouds, sleeps on a gold bed but watches his children die of cancer here on earth

You mean a man who cured the sick, fed the poor,
cast out demons but couldn't handle 3 nails on the cross

A man fed 5 thousand people with 2 fishes ??

A virgin who has never been with a man miraculously got pregnant by the holy Spirit ??

I'm not mentally unstable enough to believe your stupid story and religion

jerrywill:


Bible backup?

and u see nothing to fight the devil? not the bible and its testimonies? not the name above all names? huh?

duality:


Who told you the fire called down by Elijah is not the Holy Spirit fire. You want to confine the fire of God to your imagination?

Phinity318:
Africans are too timid to accept their very africanness and indigenous religion as an inexorable fact.
The liquid of TRUTH (IFA) being too bitter and unsavoury to swallow, they thus become hardened alcoholics of illogically and unabashed peevishness. For instance, if Olodumare is God in belief, with attributes which are universal, non-tribal, and non-partial, with no chosen race, with fundamental laws which have universal and pan-ontological applicability, why run away from such an Almighty Megaforce and cling to a sectional Jewish Deity who abandoned his own creation and chose a small desert race as his “chosen people”? Wakeup Pipo...

duality:


Our God can kill and make alive.

The frustrates the devices of evil and ensures their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

He's name is Jehovah. The pillar of fire by night. He's ways are beyond our immigration. You can't imagine how he created the world, why do you Want to confine his actions to your limited imagination.

One thing is that the enemies of God's children hates God's intervention by fire.

But you know, he is the God that answers by fire.

Mujtahida:

I left Christianity and one of the reasons why I did was because of the Jews and the notion of their Choseness. The same God who created the Sun, moon, stars, rain and all the elements which are for all mankind, will now when it comes to religion/spiritual matters will now chose the Jews? No no no. It's all propaganda.

Addicted2Women:

Religion is the biggest scam in the history of mankind.

The Bible is a cool children's story book

A lovely heavenly father who lives in the clouds, sleeps on a gold bed but watches his children die of cancer here on earth

You mean a man who cured the sick, fed the poor,
cast out demons but couldn't handle 3 nails on the cross

A man fed 5 thousand people with 2 fishes ??

A virgin who has never been with a man miraculously got pregnant by the holy Spirit ??

I'm not mentally unstable enough to believe your stupid story and religion

onyenze123:
It is not. It is another mental construction like hell fire

xpool:

You see, this is what you get when somebody wakes up in the morning and opens a thread to mock GOD.

Is this the most usefully topic in the life of OP.

jerrywill:

We are talking about the Holy Spirit in person here...they called down fire and not the 'fire of the Holy Ghost'

why was the Holy Spirit sent to us? to consume enemies with his fire I guess

FaithZion2:
This is false belief, nothing like Holy Ghost fire consume, kill, the Holy Ghost / Spirit I know is peaceful not violative, once it comes upon someone u feel, peace, joy, happiness, etc.........so they should find better things to do than deceiving themselves..........

EMILO2STAY:
Instead of carefully scrutinizing
what they have been taught in the
light of the Scriptures, many
professed Christians today allow
themselves to be carried away by
every wind of doctrine as long as such appear to satisfy their
immediate emotional and material
concerns. One of such doctrines is
the teaching that there is something
like "holy ghost fire" which can be
invoked to destroy one's enemies or whatever obstacles that may lie in
one's way. Wrong notions
We must point out that the incident in
Acts 2: 1-41 in which the 12 apostles
spoke in tongues in fulfillment of the
Lord's promise cannot be used to
justify holy ghost fire prayers. In the first place what happened on that day
was that the apostles spokevarious
languages other than their own
Galilean tongue .The testimony by
those who heard the apostles is clear
on this, as it is written: "And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one
to another, Behold, are not all these
which speak Galileans? And how hear
we every man in our own tongue,
wherein we were born? Parthians, and
Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and
Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and
in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and
strangers of Rome, Jews and
proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the
wonderful works of God." - Acts
2:7-11.
From the text above one could see that
the tongues spoken by the apostles
were known languages which were understood by the people who had
converged at Jerusalem for the
Pentecost, a later name for the feast of
weeks which comes up on the 50th
day after the Passover. The apostles
did not behave in a wild manner. They were preaching, not praying. What
obtains these days however is that the
congregation keep shouting
sometimes for hours on end, uttering
unintelligible sounds (which they call
speaking in tongues) - all in the name of prayers. This is of course the direct
opposite of what happened on the
day of Pentecost.
What these professed Christians fail to
realize is that speaking in tongues was
necessary when Christianity was at its infancy so that the gospel could reach
those who were not Jews. After a
while, the gift ceased. The time of
speaking in tongues has passed as St.
Paul himself declared. - 1 Corinthians
13:8. When Jesus Christ spoke of the
kingdom of heaven suffering
"violence" and the "violent" taking it
by force, he meant that the devil and
his agents use violence to continually
persecute the true servants of God and make false claims to the kingdom(2
Corinthians 11:13-15) History is
replete with records of atrocities
committed by so-called Church leaders
against those they called "heretics".
Such churches have proved themselves not to be the servants of
God. - Revelation 2:9; 3:9. Another place cited by those who
believe and teach the doctrine of holy
ghost fire is Matthew 3:11. In the text
John the Baptist, speaking of Jesus
Christ stated: "I indeed baptize you
with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost, and with fire" It should be
noted that this text does not say one
should pray for fire to destroy one's enemies. The statement of John the
Baptist meant that the mission of Christ
was of a far higher order than his.
After Christ had been baptized with
water by John the Baptist, the holy
spirit alighted on him in the form of a dove. (Matthew 3:16-17) Thereafter
he promised the apostles the gift of
the holy spirit (or the spirit of
anointing) which fulfilled on the day of
Pentecost when the spirit descended
on them in the form of cloven tongues of fire. (Luke 24:47-49; Acts 1:3-8; Acts
2:1-41) This was the baptism with the
holy spirit spoken of by John the
Baptist. Holy Spirit not Holy Ghost
There is nothing like Holy Ghost. The
word ghost, according to The New
Imperial Reference Dictionary comes
from the archaic English word g'ast
which is derived from the German word geist, meaning "a spirit
appearing after death". The Oxford
Advanced Learners Dictionary says it
means "the spirit of a dead person
appearing to somebody who is still
living" while the Websters New World Dictionary defines ghost as among
other things "the supposed
disembodied spirit of a dead person,
conceived of as appearing to the living
as a pale, shadowy apparition"
The word ghost was wrongly used by the translators of the King James
Version of the Bible to stand for "spirit"
which is the same thing as "breath of
life" - the power of God which is
responsible for the functioning of the
organs. For instance John 19:30 is rendered in the King James Version as
follows: "When Jesus therefore had
received the vinegar, he said, It is
finished: and he bowed his head, and
gave up the ghost." But the New King
James Version has translated it thus: " So when Jesus had received the sour
wine, He said, "It is finished!" And
bowing His head, He gave up His
spirit". Other translations such as the
New American Standard Version, the
New International Version, the Revised Standard Version, The Living Bible, the
Jerusalem Bible and so on have all
changed the word ghost to spirit.
The term Ghost" is also wrongly used
to stand for holy spirit. For instance
Matthew 28:19 is rendered thus in the King James Version "Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost." But this
has been amended in the New King
James Version to read "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit." Jesus' Example
That God is opposed to the practice of
praying for fire to burn people is
eloquently attested to by the
statement of Christ when he was to
pass through some Samaritan villages and they would not let him pass as it is
written: "And it came to pass, when the
time was come that he should be
received up, he stedfastly set his face
to go to Jerusalem. And sent
messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the
Samaritans, to make ready for him. And
they did not receive him, because his
face was as though he would go to
Jerusalem. And when his disciples
James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire
to come down from heaven, and
consume them, even as Elias did? But
he turned, and rebuked them, and
said, "Ye know not what manner of
spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but
to save them. And they went to
another village." - Luke 9:51-56
It could be seen that when prompted
by his enraged disciples to pray for fire
to destroy the Samaritans for their slight on him, Jesus Christ rebuked
them. But the professed Christians of
today would readily call for fire to
burn their enemies. God will not
answer such prayers. In the light of
the above, it is also wrong to use the incident in which the prophet Elijah
commanded fire to come from heaven
to destroy or consume two captains
and their bands (2 Kings 1) as basis
for holy ghost fire prayers. The
incident was an isolated one in the ministry of the prophet and should not
be applied in this time of grace. - John
1:17; 2 Corinthians 3:17.
Jesus Christ during his sermon on the
mount exhorted: "Ye have heard that it
hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But
I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to
them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you, and
persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in
heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise
on the evil and on the good, and
sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust. For if ye love them which love
you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye
salute your brethren only, what do ye
more than others? do not even the
publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect,
even as your Father which is in heaven
is perfect." - Matthew 5:43-48. See also Luke 6:27,28. Manner of Prayer
The Bible says that by their fruits ye
shall know them. (Matthew 7:16,20) It
is noteworthy that in the course of
prayers, some Christians today behave
like the worshippers of Baal in their encounter with Elijah as described in 1
Kings 18. They scream or shout
repeatedly at the top of their voices;
they engage in outlandish gestures
like vigorously waving their hands,
stamping their feet, rolling on the floor, pounding the wall with their
hands; running helter-skelter, uttering
incomprehensible sounds in the name
of speaking in tongues and so on.
These are not the manifestations of the
spirit of God which is "first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be
intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without
partiality, and without
hypocrisy." (James 3:17) The spirit of
God does not operate in such a way
that the person will lose control of himself and behave in a wild manner
for, the spirit of the prophet is "subject
to the prophets." - 1 Corinthians 14:32