similar but an eisegetical manner. Thus the collection of texts for the baptism of the Spirit that groups as one and the same all Pauline texts on a believer’s cleansing (Rom. 15:16; 1 Cor. 6:11), or one’s righteousness (Rom. 2:29; 8:1–17; 14:17; Gal. 5:5, 16–26), and intimate fellowship with God (Rom. 8:14–17; Gal. 4:6), as well as power for mission (Rom. 15:18–19; Phil. 1:18–19), can only result in a confusion of the case.43 This is the method of the analogy of faith gone to seed! It cannot help
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