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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: Yes I did say that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not God, but I was not saying that to prove that they do not exist or whatever might have been taken out of that by anyone. But I said that to try to explain numbers 5 and 6 in your post. What I was trying to say is that God is omnipresent. He can be anywhere at anytime in fact He is everywhere all the time. In saying that God can be the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit all at the same time and God can correspond with Himself so to speak at the same time as well. Why would God want to correspond with Hiself you might ask. God was setting up a system that one day we would be part of it. Let me clarify. The system is where the Father-God is the head and the only way to Him is through the Son, but later in Scripture we find that we are the sons-children of God. Jesus even showed us how to pray and He did not say ok pray dear Jesus please tell the Father ... blah blah blah, but instead Jesus said start by saying Heavenly Father. Then the Holy Spirits role is the Comforter. He is supposed to dwell inside of us, to instill in us the gifs of the Spirit, and then we fine out that He is supposed to pray to God for us. Now wait a minute, Jesus already showed us how to pray why does the Holy Spirit have to pray for us. The Holy Spirit does not pray for us but is rather our interpreter. He not only interprets what we say to God but also what God says to us-Matt 13:11. Now we are flesh, and when we believe in God and are saved and receive His Spirit then we also become spirit. Jesus Christ-The Son-was half flesh and half Spirit so to speak that is to say that His mother was flesh and His Father was spirit. The Son came in the name of God-Jesus-to show us how to live and to be with God and all that other stuff that we need to know and that we can learn from His life here on earth especially the part about how to overcome the flesh which is so hard for most if not all of us at one point in time. But through His example we now know what to do. Now this being so God is all three all at the same time, but the Father is God in Heaven, the Son is our example in whos steps we follow, and the Holy Spirit being God within us as our interpreter and our comforter. And they all share the same name and that is the name of God ... Jesus. As for John 1:1-2. What is the Word? The Word is just as it is said ... The Word. It is the Bible, prophecy, God's will, God's perfect plan. Lets look at this in Scripture ... In the begining was God's plan, and God's plan was with God and God's plan was God-to say that God included Himself in His plan to be our Father-The same-God's plan-was in the begining with God. If you look down in verse 14 is says, "And the Word-God's plan-was made flesh-as to say that God's plan is now coming into effect and it is coming to pass-and dwelt among us-as to say now is where we come into the plan and take part in the Kingdom of Heaven by taking the possition of the children of God-(and we beheld his glory the glory AS OF the only beggotten of the Father)-which is to say that now we realize the glory and magnificence of God's perfect will or plan just like we realized the glory of God which was manifested through His only beggotten Son-full of grace and truth-God's plan is full of grace and truth just like the Son of God was full of grace and truth. |