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Theme 4 Part E - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Heavenly language
        
        Paul describes speaking a kind of heavenly language in Corinthians, Paul states that it is for a divine audience and it’s main function is to strengthen a connection with God through Private Prayer
    - - speaking in a foreign language not previously known by the speaker
        
        evidence of this in Acts where disciples spoke in language known by the international Jewish community
  - - - used to be foretelling the future, but is now a generally a message from God: 'God wants you to know that..' or 'I say the Lord onto you..'.
        
        Paul states prophecy must be tested so churches do this by cross referencing prophecy with scripture
  - - - It is important to note that healing is not just in the physical sense but also emotional
  - - - Worshippers will feel inspired to move their body and dance, clap, sing
        
        No books are used, but words to songs (often modern) are displayed on large
        screens.
- - - - extremely difficult to verify whether a spiritual gift comes from God. Even though Xenolalia in Acts could be seen as an empirically verified phenomenon (Jews from other places verifying the speaking of a new language), can we trust this ancient source? This is a second hand piece of an empirically verified experience, in a book filled with historical inaccuracies.
    - - Speaking in Tongues involves speaking in a heavenly language which sounds like gibberish, we have no empirical criteria to compare this language too, so this once again leads to ambiguity regarding whether this spiritual gift is truly connected with a transcendent heavenly realm, as we have no physical way to prove it
    - - Some diseases ‘wax and wane’, multiple sclerosis is a medically observed example. People have reported to have been healed but then a week later are worse than they have been previously
      - Preachers have claimed to cure cancer before, but it has later transpired that the recipient of this ‘miracle’ is merely worried that this may be the case rather than the recipient of a proven medical examination. This means the ‘cured’ person probably did not have cancer in the first place
      - People can spontaneously get better from diseases without prayers of healing
  - - - There is a large mix of people experiencing these spiritual gifts from the mentally unstable to neuro typical. Claiming all people who have these experiences are emotionally needy or
        suffering from any number of mental health issues a lazy assumption.
    - - Richard Swinburne says that this ‘cumulative evidence’, when reinforced by the sheer amount of people who believe in God and the plentiful amounts of philosophical arguments for God’s existence, gives the Charismatic Experience ‘evidential force’