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NASB | 1 Corinthians 14:5 Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 14:5 Now I wish that all of you spoke in unknown tongues, but even more [I wish] that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater [and more useful] than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he translates or explains [what he says], so that the church may be edified [instructed, improved, strengthened]. |
Subject: IS TONGUES FOR TODAY? |
Bible Note: One other thing: I don't know if your post is standard Oneness teaching or not, but the God you believe in seems pretty weak, as if He is "sick and tired" of the perfection in heaven and how He seems to be almost pleading for us to like Him. If your God is not sufficient in Himself, then your God is not the God of the Bible. God "married" Mary? I bet Joseph really felt awkward! Or did God divorce her first? "The Holy Spirit is a small portion of God Himself that dwells in those that ask of Him." A "portion of God"? I thought that God wasn't DIVIDED... :) ""The reason why Jesus refered to God(Himself) as the Father was because that is who He was physically. Physically God was Jesus' father even though Jesus was God." Oh, "I am my Father." Makes perfect sense! Jesus did say that "The Father and I are one." Where, however, did he explicitly say that "the Father is I"? Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane the following words: "I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me." --John 17:20-23 So Jesus prays that Christians will be one just as He and the Father are one. So, according to Oneness, Jesus is praying that all Christians will be the same Christian. If Jesus is the Father, then Jesus is praying that I will be John Wesley and Martin Luther and Hank and kalos and my wife and Jonathan Edwards and Charles Stanley and John Calvin and the apostle Paul. I urge you to read through the New Testament without insisting to yourself, "There is no Trinity; there is not Trinity; there is no Trinity," and see what you discover about the way the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit truly co-exist and interact with each other. --Joe! |