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Originally Posted by Evangelical

The genuine anointing can be discerned by applying the test of spirits:

1 John 4:2-3, 1 Cor 12:31, 1 John 4:15

These are the tests that John and Paul gave to the early Christians to be able to discern the spirits and the genuine anointing - and remember at this time Christianity as we know it today did not exist, and paganism/false Christs were more rife then that it is in our "secular Christian culture" today.

Anyone who wants to use other or non-biblical methods to discern because they think they know better are almost sure to reach the wrong conclusions. The categorical "10 ways to tell...." methods that you can find on the internet for trying to discern a good marriage partner, a good job, or even whether a pastor or church is genuine, are also non-biblical approaches and do not work because they do not consider what the mouth speaks from the heart.

By just these tests, you believe you can determine anointing?

Quotes from Evangelical below.

“We don't need to read the bible to understand the truth of it. We could gain the same knowledge from a different book or even a movie.”


“So even if they don't read the bible but follow the ministry they will get the right idea.”