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NASB | 1 Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 12:1 Now about the spiritual gifts [the special endowments given by the Holy Spirit], brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. |
Subject: Am I ignorant |
Bible Note: Jeff, the only thing I can say is that I was first involved as a new Christian in a Church that taught that all the gifts were still available, I had no other doctrine to go on, but something just wasn't right. Only after many, many months on my face in prayer and in His book in prayer did I come to the conclusions that I have come to. Please believe me friend, it tore me apart, because I so loved these people and still do, but It was NOT the teaching of man nor common sense but the Holy Spirit that led me to the truth. Once I'd come to this I eventually after a great deal of sadness and loneliness, happily found I was not at all alone but in the majority of orthodox Christians, many of whom have shown me through good old common sense we can still come to the same conclusions. But Jeff Scripture is indeed the bases of my conclusions, and though I cant point to a single verse and not only the entire counsel of 1 Cor where Paul is saying only not in so many words to the Corinthians to, shut up and grow up, where it comes to at least one of the gifts, but to the whole Bible. Jeff there are so many men of God that I so admire that have also come to these same conclusions that I would be wroth to even try to count them, men who have demonstrated to me that they are being led by the Holy Spirit. Take it for whatever you think its worth my friend I've nothing else to add. By the way Jeff Im as staunch a defender of sola Scriptura as just about anyone here on this forum and I think you know that, if you don't may I inform you it is indeed so. So I vehemently agree that we should indeed be holding onto truth shown to us through His Holy Word. God bless John |