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Originally Posted by Connie
Scripture is always the foundation, Beth, but the point is that in this case the scripture is ambiguous with respect to the later church's gifts. That happens to be the case in some parts of scripture. I guess you can always announce that you know the Bible better than your opponent and he is getting it wrong and that is that of course. But the only scripture that seems to me to solidly say the gifts were only for the apostolic generation is 2 Timothy 4:20 where Paul says he left Trophimus sick, since surely he would have healed him if he could have. Otherwise the scriptures used on both sides of this issue don't seem to me to be conclusive.
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It's not that I know the Bible better, it's that God's Word is always true. If we take isolated verses this can be ambiguous, but if you look at a topic and find every instance where this topic is mentioned, you will get a clear understanding of God's teaching on the topic. Anyone can do that, it doesn't matter how long you have studied the Bible. If you look back to the Way of Life Encyclopedia post you will see that it is already done for you.
http://av1611.com/forums/showpost.ph...3&postcount=51
If anyone can find a verse on tongues that was not mentioned in that article, I would be curious to know.
and the way we test the spirit is in evaluating the experience we compare to scripture and if the experience is not in line with scripture, we then know it is not from God. That's all I need to know.
I have to admit that as soon as I read the beginning of your post, I stopped.
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Originally Posted by Connie
Just for the record, I think that this question can't be resolved Biblically,
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