I have shown different! When we talk to God that is prayer!
Acts 2 They were magnifying God! Talking to God!
Acts 10 they were doing the same as Acts 2 praising God!
1 Cor. 14:2 says you speak to God, that is praying!
vs. 14 If I (Paul) pray in tongues (which he does vs. 18) my spirit prays!
vs. 15 Speaks of praying both in the spirit (tongues) and with understanding (understood language).
vs 28 If there is no interpreter...pray to God! That is prayer in private between yourself and God!
YOur opionion not backed up with scripture!
They were given to edify, exort and comfort! They were given to the church for the church...and the church is still here! Prayer was also given to the church..but it is not limited to just the assembly!
Please quote the whole scripture! vs 28 "But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself AND GOD!
This is not speaking of tongues! How do you reconcile this scripture?
1 Corinthians 11:5: "And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head--it is just as though her head were shaved."
You leave out parts of scripture that does not agree with your theories!
Wrong! Others spoke in tongues not just the apostles.
You have yet to show me where tongues are used to reveal. What are they to reveal? THey are speaking to God. Magnifying and praising God (Acts 2 and 10), speaking to God (1 Cor. 14)
So you back your doctrine on history and not the Bible? THe Bible is clear when the work of the Holy Spirit will end! As long as the church is here on earth the Holy Spirit will be here! We are not to quench the work of the Holy Spirit! We are not to deny the Power of the Holy Spirit!
Where did Paul say he would rather speak that? In church! But he also said he spoke in tongue more than anyone!! Maybe that is because speaking in tongues is speaking to God!
Your point?
Who is seeking tongues?
Sinful? He said in 14:1 to desire spiritual gifts especially prophesy. I agree with scriptures not all are called to speak in tongues AT CHURH.
When do you believe you can manifest the Holy Spirit?
But I did! and I have through this whole thread...you just ignore the scriptures that I post!
But God knows what is said because it is the Holy Spirit that gives the utterance (Acts 2:4)
YOu have proven nothing with your post except why you are in unbelief about the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Without faith we can not please God! If you do not believe what the scriptures say you will not manifest what the word says that you can.
1 Cor. 12-14
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by awaken, Sep 3, 2012.
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I think a lot of people are afraid of the Holy spirit manifesting. They are sure if you start thinking supernatural, it cannot be from God because they have no experience of Christ manifesting. then come all the doctrines of unbelief.
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1 Corinthians 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
--There is not one word of praying here. That is your imagination. You are twisting the Scriptures. The one who is speaking in another language does not speak to men because men cannot understand him. He speaks to God for God can understand other languages. But as for today's modern-day tongue phenomena, God can't even understand that! It isn't a language of any sort. It is unintelligible. It is not Biblical. You admit that you don't understand it, and can't find out the language you speak in.
These two verses go together and don't make sense read apart:
1 Corinthians 14:13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
--If you are going to speak in another language pray for the gift of interpretation (if you don't have one). Why? Because if you pray in another language your human spirit may pray but mind is unfruitful. What a useless exercise this is. He was condemning it.
Then he says if you are going to speak in tongues speak with an interpreter, and if you don't have an interpreter, then SHUT UP!!!!
--First everything that Paul says in this verse is for the church.
Therefore everything Paul says is not private but public.
"In the spirit" is used for public singing as much as it is for public praying. There is still nothing here about a private prayer language.
If there is no interpreter then shut up. Speak to God.
IOW, there is no such thing as a private prayer language--nowhere taught in the Bible. It isn't there. You have not given a single verse to demonstrate this.
2. All spiritual gifts mentioned in 1Cor.12 were supernatural and given to first century churches, given only to first century churches, for the revelation of God was not yet complete.
It is not opinion it is fact. It is based on Scripture. You won't even examine the Scripture. As I said in my quote you won't and can't refute these truths with Scripture. I can give you plenty, but here is one:
1 Corinthians 12:28 And 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.
--The gifts were given to the church. It says so right there. How can you deny that?
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Here is an example:
Acts 16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
Paul went to the place where the women gathered on a regular basis to pray. When they prayed they would cover their heads. When the church gathered together they would cover their heads and keep silent in the church. Such customs are still kept in eastern nations today.
1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
--This is a prophecy from Isa.28:11,12. Paul is referring to it now because it is just being fulfilled now. It is a sign just now to the Jews, that men of other languages will speak to Israel, a strange people--Gentile nations; and when that happens they will still not hear, and thus will go into judgment. And that is what happened. Judgment came in 70 A.D.
Prophecy is fairly self-explanatory. It was not always fore-telling but sometimes forth-telling just like a preacher does. Think of the work of John the Baptist. He was a prophet.
Tongues with interpretation was very much like that gift of prophecy and edified the church in the same way. Without the interpretation it was useless.
Knowledge wasn't common knowledge but revelatory knowledge given by God to some of the wiser individuals in the church. These were three supernatural gifts that would only last for a short period of time and then pass away--when that which is complete would come--the Word of God. And it was complete just before the end of the first century. History tells us that tongues were finished before that time as well. History and the Bible are in harmony at this point.
It wasn't very important to him was it?
He spoke in tongues more than them all because he established over 100 churches in different nations that spoke different languages. Corinth was in Greece. Greek was the universal language of the day. They were the least city in the world to need the gift of tongues.
11. Read 1Cor.12:28. All the gifts are listed in order of importance and tongues are listed last, as the least important of all the gifts. It was not one of the more important gifts.
Why do you and the other Charismatics place the most importance on the gift that Paul placed the least importance. You have your priorities in the wrong place.
I really don't think you can adhere to all that. In fact we both know it is impossible. Therefore it is sin.
14. Nowhere is the gift of tongues directly connected with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. These are two separate events and doctrines.
Your answer makes no sense in light of the above statement.
I don't believe that God is going to speak to me through a burning bush.
I don't believe that I will raise an axe-head from the bottom of a river.
I don't believe that I will part the waters of the Red Sea.
I don't believe that I will walk on water like Peter did.
I am in unbelief about many things, and that is not a bad thing.
That unbelief is firmly anchored in the Word of God
The Word of Faith movement which you seem to believe in says that you must put faith in your faith. You keep saying to have faith.
I do.
I have faith in Christ, and faith in His word.
Christ reveals himself through the Word of God, as he promised.
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
You are seeking a mystical religion based in your experiences and not rooted in the Word of God, but rather grounded in your own experiences. It is esoteric metaphysical and existential. There is a way that seems right unto a man but the end thereof is death. -
ONCE AGAIN...they were given to the church! THe church is still here! THey are ALL needed today!
Question...with your above reasoning...Are we not allowed to teach the word of God outside the church? Are we not allowed to pray for healing outside the church? Are we not allowed to help in any ministry outside the church? This is common sense! NOWHERE does it say that we can not pray outside the church!!
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Paul said that women should be "covered" when they pray or prophesy, which refers to public prayer or public prophesying in church (according to many Bible commentaries). In 1 Corinthians 11:16-18, Paul specifically placed his instructions in the context of church meetings, which demonstrates that women are allowed to pray and prophesy out loud in church. -
I really meant to stay out of this...but I have to comment. The point DHK is making is about your individual praying by yourself.
God used that particular moment to ensure the hearers heard them in their own languages, and told everyone around them they heard them in their own languages magnifying God. The same cannot be said for praying by yourself.
Answer: Because the emphasis of the scripture, especially in those passages, is NOT on speaking in tongues. In Acts 10 the emphasis was on showing the Jews that the Gentiles were God's children, too. In Acts 19, the emphasis was about those that followed the teachings of John the Baptist needing to hear about and follow Jesus.
THIS, my friend, is the #1 problem with the defense of speaking in tongues. People take these passages and use them as a defense for the gift, while not placing the gift in its proper importance with regards to the passage. The speaking of tongues was not the main point of these passages.
Secondly, there is a rule of "first use." It doesn't apply to all situations, but can be generally applied to most. It basically goes along the lines of, the first time I identify something to you, each time I reference it afterwards is based on the first time I identified it to you. For example, if I tell you a story about me riding a bicycle, the first time I reference the bicycle, I might tell you that it's a 10-speed, dark blue, with a water bottle holder on the frame. Each time I reference the bicycle after that, I assume that you'll understand that I'm talking about the same exact bicycle.
In this case, the "first use" of tongues was specifically described in Acts 2. If we agree that the same author wrote the rest of Acts, then it's plausible that the author didn't go into detail of describing each use of the gift of tongues because he'd already described it, and assumed that we'd understand that he was talking about the same exact use of the gift. -
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4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
The gifts of the Holy Spirit, collectively, were given to the Apostles as a sign that they were apostles. They performed miracles like Christ did, though to a lesser extent, but to a far greater extent than any of the believers in the church at Corinth or any of the believers in any other church.
What other believer, for example, could follow in the Apostle Peter's footsteps:
Acts 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
--The signs and wonders (including tongues) were given specifically to the Apostles to authenticate both them and their message.
Acts 5:15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
There are many frauds in this world today, but there is no one alive today that can do what Peter did here.
The true Biblical gifts of miracles, healings, and tongues have ceased. They are gifts, supernatural gifts which cannot and have not been replicated in this day and generation.
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1 Corinthians 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
They seem fairly clear to me.
Sit down and shut up!
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