Bible Question: Where in the Bible is the verse that contains the following (or similar): You shall be known as your are known. (This is about how we'll look in Heaven.) |
Bible Answer: This is one of those places in God's Word where it's paramount to read and understand the passage in question IN ITS CONTEXT. Here it's absolutely crucial. Also, one should remember that the Bible was authored and written without the modern advent of chapters and verses. So I'll quote here from the last few verses of Chapter 12. In this chapter, Apostle Paul has been expounding at length about spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit bestowed on the Corinthian christians by the laying on of hands, probably and mostly by Paul. 1 Cor 12:30 All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they? 31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way. with 1 Cor 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. So after carefully studying the whole of this disertation from Paul, we must conclude that he is saying in the latter part of Chapter 13, that this era of miraculous powers (spiritual gifts) will soon die out and be replaced with an era without such gifts. This era of miracles (signs) was an endorsement from God and Jesus that the Apostles were acting and speaking with Their blessing as being fully empowered by the Holy Spirit. Now I realize this statement will probably be responded to with various different opinions, proposing we still live in an age of miraculous powers from the Holy Spirit manifested in men. I would just like to encourage everyone to look for and compare these modern demonstrations of such miracles against the standard of miracles as we see in God's Word. Are people able to see after a lifetime of blindness from birth? Are limbs restored to good working order after being severed from the body? Is life restored to a dead body after being absolutely dead for several hours, maybe even days? Are we comparing modern miracles to those we see in our Bible that were unquestionably supernatural feats going against the natural laws of this universe? I would urge you to "test everything" as we're directed by Paul in 1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. I do sincerely this helps clarify mmy previous post on this subject. God bless. --Rowdy |