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To: Quix
Impressing you was not the goal. Paul's comments to the Corinthians show that the gift of speaking in tongues was of a far lessor nature than prophesying or that of Christian love above all and that speaking in tongues was one of those gifts that was to pass away.

So it's neither my nor your sensibilities that is salient but what Scripture says. Speaking in tongues is of no importance to the mature Christian church.

23 posted on 03/09/2012 4:11:01 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
Speaking in tongues is of no importance to the mature Christian church.

I guess you and Jimmy Carter agree that The Apostle Paul didn't know what he was talking about and you know more about Spiritual truths than Paul did.

Perhaps if you glue the Scriptures below that you seem to have torn out, God will forgive your tearing them out of the Bible.

Obviously, Paul was wrong, per your sensibilities, when Pauls wrote IN SCRIPTURE:

I Cor 12:
11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.

21And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

22Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

23And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

24For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.

I Cor 12:28:
28And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues I Cor 14:
2For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; howbeit in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

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{OH DEAR! what childishness! . . . evidently--according to count-your-change}

I Cor 14:
4He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; . . .

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{OH DEAR! Can't have that! What childishness to have Holy Spirit edifying one's self while praying in tongues! Off with their heads for being sooooooo childish! Harumph!}

I Cor 14: 15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

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{OH DEAR! Tear ALL Paul's letters out of the New Testament. He was OBVIOUSLY tooooo childish and immature to have written Scripture! /sarc}

18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

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{OH DEAR! MORE evidence--Tear ALL Paul's letters out of the New Testament. He was OBVIOUSLY tooooo childish and immature to have written Scripture! /sarc}

39Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

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{OH DEAR! MORE evidence--Clearly Paul was simply toooo childish to know a living thing about Christianity! Tear ALL Paul's letters out of the New Testament. He was OBVIOUSLY tooooo childish and immature to have written Scripture! /sarc}

35 posted on 03/09/2012 6:40:10 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: count-your-change
Speaking in tongues is of no importance to the mature Christian church.

Or the mature Christian.

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

83 posted on 03/10/2012 9:31:17 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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