Timeline for Are signs, wonders and miracles evidence of an authentic divine calling or not?
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 15:39 | comment | added | Nigel J | Up-voted. The 'demonstration of the Spirit and of power' was seen in the effect upon the Corinthian believers : their faith, their fruits, their character, their behaviour. This is powerful testimony indeed. Signs might follow this, but this is the heart of true religion, as saith James. | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 14:00 | comment | added | user38524 | And Romans 15: 17 In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. 18 For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience— by word and deed, 19 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God —so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ; | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 13:58 | comment | added | user38524 |
Great answer overall (+1). The only thing I would criticize is this: Paul's ministry was to "reason with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead", to which I would respond with 1 Cor 2:3-5: 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 13:55 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Nov 8, 2021 at 13:36 | history | answered | Anne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |