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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: The way I understand what Jesus said in John 8:58 is by following your very good recommendation of using other scripture to interpret and confirm scripture, and also your very true words that scripture never contradicts itself. For example, what John said about Jesus in John 1:1-3 confirms and helps to interpret what Jesus is saying here in John 8:58. Jesus was saying He had existed for eternity with God and as God (same as John 1:1-2!). Also, if we read John 1:3 we see that Jesus was more that just a “plan” or “idea”. When did a “plan” ever physically create anything? Listen to Jesus’s own words in John 17:5 "And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” Jesus was getting ready to go to the cross and He knew that after that, His work was complete and His glory would be restored to it’s previous state that had existed from eternity. If what you are saying is true, the ”glory” Jesus had was only a “thought” in God’s mind. What kind of glory was that? If what you are saying is true, after God’s thought turned into a plan, and the plan was completed, the “plan”, which was Jesus, would exist no more. What kind of “glory” would that be? What kind of "glory" is there in existing no more? What “glory” was He talking about that would be restored if He no longer existed? If I don’t understand what Jesus said in John 8:58, I can see very clearly by the next verse, that the Pharisees did not understood either. I hear, as the Pharisee heard, Jesus saying He was, and is, the ever existing, self-sustaining, great I AM. The only difference between them and me is that I believe what Jesus said and they did not. If the Pharisees had misunderstood what Jesus was saying, don’t you think He would have attempted to correct them at least once? They denied what Jesus said because they refused to believe what He said, not because they did not hear what He said. You deny what Jesus said only because you refuse to hear what He said, but your reaction of un-belief is not a whole lot different. Now, won’t you please put down your rocks and just believe? “Do not be unbelieving, but believing" (John 20:27) retxar |