Talk:Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Domino anointing
Been there, done that. I know this from personal experience in one of those lines. Because there are a lot of "true believers" around, no one wants to just jump right up and say, "That was just gravity," so everyone gets up a bit slow and pretends to be a little bit shaken, with a bit of a "Wow, that was interesting!" expression. (And, yes, I do believe in the Holy Spirit, etc., and that the gifts are still in operation. But gravity is still gravity.) RickReinckens 05:02, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I think the concept of annoiting a line of people is silly, and I have doubts about the whole concept of falling out anyways, but anyhow, what's this tidbit of info doing in this article? It doesn't really seem to do anything for the article and i'm going to delete it.--Adrift* 17:14, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Article cleanup
The bit about the book "Promised Power" should really be moved down into an external link or booknote or something.--Adrift* 17:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Working on a redraft
I'm currently working on expanding this page, current draft is at User:Paddles/Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Comments/suggestions, offers to review for NPOV etc. welcome at User talk:Paddles/Gifts of the Holy Spirit. --Paddles 15:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The redraft isn't needed given the work that has been done by others on the merge and subsequently. Thanks for everyone who offered help anyway. Paddles TC 22:25, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Merger
The articles Spiritual gift and Gifts of the Holy Spirit ought to be merged. Colin MacLaurin 10:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Since Gifts of the Holy Spirit is the longer of the two, I propose that Spiritual gift be merged into it.
 * I also propose that the result be placed under the title Spiritual gifts, as this is the most commonly used term.

Correction: Make that "Spiritual gift", because of the Wikipedia convention, "In general only create page titles that are in the singular..." (See here). Colin MacLaurin 07:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I support Colin M's proposed merge. I'm still planning an update/rewrite/expand but this could just as easily be of the merged article. I've been taking my time a bit on the update; either my rewrite can be part of the merge, or someone else can merge and I'll use the newly-merged article as a base to work from. Paddles TC 09:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Howard Carter
As a student of Charismatic/Pentecostal history, it seems this article gives too much credit to Howard Carter with no documentation. To simply quote Lester Sumrall would seem inadequate. Is there any reputable Pentecostal/Charismatic historian or theologian who makes the assertion that Carter originated the idea of nine gifts of the Spirit? I don't know of any.--Will3935 01:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)