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Proposition No. 1: "Resolved that the Scriptures teach that Holy Spirit Baptism with the evidence of speaking in tongues, ceased with the Apostolic Age."

Affirm: Howard See

Deny: P. D. Hardin

Proposition No. 2: "Resolved that the Scriptures teach that Holy Spirit Baptism with the evidence of speaking in tongues is for all people who believe and obey the truth."

Affirm: P. D. Hardin

Deny: Howard See

Chart # 2 What I Am Not Affirming.

1. I am not affirming that no one ever received Holy Spirit Baptism.
2. I am not affirming that no one ever spoke in unlearned tongues or languages by the power of God
3. I am not affirming that God’s power is limited.
4. I am not affirming that ecstatic sounds are not being uttered by some which they suppose to be like the tongues spoken by the apostles on the day of Pentecost
5. I am not affirming that Christians do not receive the Holy Spirit today.

Chart # 3 What I Am Affirming.

1. I am affirming that some in the first century received Holy Spirit baptism.
2. I am affirming that some in the first century spoke in languages that they had not studied and that by the power of God.
3. I am affirming that obedient believers receive the "Gift of the Holy Spirit" today.
4. I am affirming, however, that no one today receives Holy Spirit baptism.
5. I am affirming that no one today is speaking in languages which they have not studied by the power of God, that such supernatural gifts ceased with the close of the Apostolic Age.
6. I am affirming that the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the speaking of tongues, by the power of God, ceased by the end of the Apostolic Age.

Chart #4 What Is the Issue Between Us Tonight

1. The issue is not a question of God’s power.
2. The issue is not a question of whether Holy Spirit baptism was promised to some.
3. The issue is not did the Apostles and Cornelius and his household receive Holy Spirit baptism.
4. The issue is not do believer today receive the Holy Spirit.

1. Are believers today baptized with the Holy Spirit as the Apostles were on Pentecost?
2. Are believers today speaking in languages which they have not studied by the power of God?

Chart #5 It Will Do My Opponent No Good:

1. To produce passages concerning the Apostles and Cornelius being baptized with the Holy Spirit.
2. To produce passages which deal with gifts of the Spirit received by the laying on of the Apostles hands.
3. To produce passages which refer to the general non-miraculous indwelling of the Holy Spirit which has been promised to all Christians.

1. Produce a passage which teaches that every Christian will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, or,
2. Show that the scriptures teach that every Christian mentioned in the New Testament was baptized with the Holy Spirit.

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