I am quoting Kalled2Preach from this url.......
https://www.the-highway.com/forum/showthr...amp;o=&vc=1 I enjoyed the book a whole lot. Like I've said before, I don't fully agree, personally, with his belief that all those gifts have completely ceased.
You already know where I stand, but maybe you could expound on where you stand exactly? What gifts are still being used today?
Not to stir theological debate, but if they have, than how can all Scripture be profitable since there is a lengthly section of First Corinthians specifically about tongues? If tongues have ceased, than those verses wouldn't apply to now.
I find this an odd approach to scriptural interpretation. Do you still offer sacrifice at the temple? Worship on Saturday? How about, as a baptist student, still uphold a familial type covenant? How about another issue.......have you witnessed a verifiable occurrence of tongues, as defined by scripture?
And if that is the case, than what else in Scripture doesn't in some way apply? It could, in an extreme case, lead to someone picking and choosing what they wanna believe in the Bible.
No, just how we interpret it, which is the basic dilemma for the entire church. You pick and choose already. We all do because no Christian upholds the entirety of the OT law.
The basic problem to this claim is that canon is closed, or I would like a list of what is to be included from the last 1800 years that aren't currently in the Bible. The answer is,
NOTHING. Every Christian believes canon is closed. This means canonical revelation has ceased. See the problem now? To be a Christian, you must uphold that
some things ceased.
Now, if you know of a local place where tongues occurs, let me know. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/bigglasses.gif" alt="" /> Hope school goes well this year.
God bless,
william
