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NASB | 1 Corinthians 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? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 12:30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? |
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Bible Note: Rob: You write: 'I don't believe that I said that this means that someone that is "filled" will have to speak in tongues. It does say, though, that signs will accompany those that believe.' Well, that is a clearly biblical statement, but it is not the statement that has been made in this thread. I tend to lean against the Mark passage being original simply because I find it to be NOT to be in harmony with the rest of the text. We see absolutely no other mentions of drinking poison and handling poisonous snakes without getting killed by their bites. While it is certainly within the abilities of an omnipotent God to accomplish such tasks, we see no record of this actually happening in Scripture. Furthermore, what we do see among the saints in the early church is that they are far from being impervious to harm. People are quick to cite this verses to support that true Christians are somehow impervious to the physical troubles in this world (if they only have enough faith), but from Acts 7 on we see that, yes, God's people are indeed going to die for the sake of Christ, all according to what Christ said and God's decree (Philippians 1:29, 2 Timothy 3:14, John 15:18-21). Of course, I may be wrong here, but I do not see the text really fitting with the style or the narrative in Mark's gospel. It seems like it is a "tack-on" by a later writer stylistically and contextually. --Joe! |