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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I plan to re-read it, January 14, 2004
By A Customer
I have never before been told in a nicer way that I was wrong in what I believed. Dr. Walston's irenic spirit shows through in every page of this book. I am not sure that I have "converted" to his way of thinking quite yet, but if ever there was a book that would convince me to change my position, this would be the book. I plan to re-read it very closely with my Bible in hand, and my preconceived ideas held at bay.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tongues Controversy, December 21, 2004
I received Dr. Walston's Book about Tongues Controversy. I have read it once and am going through it again. He did an excellent job explaining inductive
versus deductive reasoning, narrative/historical accounts versus didactic
passages. The fact that he shows 26 accounts of conversions opposed to 3 out of 5 is superb! Every Pentecostal should read this book especially those who are so dogmatic about "tongues being the necessary credential" for being
Spirit-baptized/Filled. Thanks for sharing your knowledge/revelation on this matter. Be blessed.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A "paradigm shift", May 23, 2006
As a Classical Pentecostal, and a seminary graduate, I have always held to the belief that speaking in tongues is the initial, physical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. That is not to say that I ever thought that one had to speak in tongues to be saved: I didn't. I just always thought, believed, was taught, and and taught others that the Baptism in the Holy Spirit was a subsequent-to-salvation, deeper experience in the Holy Spirit, and the initial, physical evidence of that post-salvific experience was speaking in tongues. This fit both with my personal experience and more than that, it fit with the Scriptures . . . or, at least I thought it did until I read this book. To say I was shocked to find a Biblical and logical argument against my long-held beliefs on this topic would be an understatement. Over my many years of theological training, I have read and heard great scholars like Roger Stronstad, Donald Fee, and Stanley M. Horton, et al, who have all assured me, with great passion and conviction, that speaking in tongues is the subsequent-to-salvation, deeper experience in the Holy Spirit, demonstrated by the initial, physical evidence of speaking in tongues. Really, I only read Dr. Walston's book out of a sense of in-house polemics rather than out of a sense of learning. What I got from it, however, was an education, both about the topic at hand and about proper Biblical hermeneutics (and much more). I know that the term "paradigm shift" has become a cliché, but this is truly the only way I can describe the result of reading Rick Walston's book. Shocking? Absolutely. Astounding? Undoubtedly. Different from what I had ever read before? Undeniably. Life changing? Indeed. In a word, Wow! Walston's logic, contra Dr. Robert Graves' review in in the Pneuma Review, was unshakable. After struggling through Walston's book, not for lack of excellent writing but for a lack of a personal desire to change, I finally became a convert. I now have a solid Biblical foundation for my position. I no longer simply parrot old teachings because someone told me to believe it. Walston never assumes that you should believe him because he "says so" as so many scholars often do. Walston proves his argument point for painful point. Did I want to "convert" to his way of thinking? Not in a million years. But, he has convinced me with such Biblical and scholarly acumen that I simply (well, not so simply) became a convert. So, if you like your traditional Classical, Pentecostal belief system and you do not want to change your perspective, then do not read this book. If, however, you wish to know the truth, and you wish to major on the same things that Luke majored on in the book of Acts, this book is for you.
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