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1 | 1Corinthians questions: Gifts and women | 1 Corinthians | Hank | 3872 | ||
Johnny-Ray, I've mulled over your answer and a number of questions come to mind. For sake of brevity I'll reduce them to two. (1) You say that you spoke in tongues some 25 years ago but have since abandoned the practice when you came to believe that "what was going on in the New Testament Church (I assume the early, apostolic church is meant) was not to continue throughout church history." How then did you have the experience? By whose authority? You say further that you don't see speakng in tongues to be evidence that one is a Christian? What then is it evidence of? Can non-Christians also speak in tongues if they are of a mind to do so? (2) The Bible clearly teaches, you say, that women are to be silent during worship services on Sunday but can talk freely on Wednesdays? Really? Frankly, unless I missed the mark by a mile, I find no Scripture references in your answer; only opinion, and upon what it is based I am at sea to understand. Will you be kind enough to follow up with a more Biblically-oriented answer? --Hank | ||||||
2 | 1Corinthians questions: Gifts and women | 1 Corinthians | JonnyRay49423 | 3929 | ||
I confess I did not quote any verses to back of what I wrote concerning your questions. I gave you my opinion for what it is worth. Now how to defend my opinions with verses from the Bible. I do not have any new verses to use to back up my opinions. In this StudyBible Forum I see the same questions being asked all the time especially the women issue and tongues. I have nothing else to add to the debate except my opinion-the Bible verses setting forth what the Bible teaches about the role of women in the local church have been quoted several times in the StudyBible Forum. When it comes to the phenomenon of what is described by Pentecostals as speaking in tongues I can only offer my opinions. Among Christians we have Pentecostals and non-Pentecostals. I personally see no value spiritually in speaking in gibberish. I can not explain to you how I came to speak in tongues if I now believe it to be unbiblical. I have some biblically based arguements but I can not fulfill that task in this small white box-I could recommend some books that helped me-but in the end we must go by the plain teachings of the Bible. The last week I have been doing a study of First Corinthians-I am only on chapter 3-but I do see that the apostle Paul's main desire was to preach Christ crucified and not anything else-my opinion is that as Christians we will only mature spiritually under the preaching of the Bible-textual preaching-if one was to preach from Genesis to Revelations would one find "tongues" to be super important or the Lord Jesus Christ? The focus of Scripture is the Lord-we must get our eyes off ourselves and focus them on the Lord Jesus Christ. | ||||||
3 | 1Corinthians questions: Gifts and women | 1 Corinthians | kalos | 3930 | ||
You write: if one was to preach from Genesis to Revelations would one find "tongues" to be super important or the Lord Jesus Christ? . . . Likewise, if one were to preach from Genesis to Revelation would one find women keeping silent in the church/long hair on women to be super important or the Lord Jesus Christ? |
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4 | 1Corinthians questions: Gifts and women | 1 Corinthians | JonnyRay49423 | 3983 | ||
I wrote that sentence in a form of a question "If one was to preach from Genesis to Revelation would he find "tongues" to be super important or the Lord Jesus Christ?" The answer would be not tongues but the Lord Jesus Christ. It is also true one would not find the length of hair of women to be a major doctrine-but the role of women is important in the Scriptures-it all goes back to creation account in Genesis-Eve was not given dominion over Adam-male headship goes back to creation-I see this teaching to be throughout the Bible-so the status of women in the created order/Church is important-more important than tongues or the length of ones hair. When it comes to the length of hair-male or female-one must follow Christian liberty-not fall into legalism-or false ideas of Christian spirituality. | ||||||