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NASB | Ephesians 4:14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 4:14 So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit]. |
Subject: tongues |
Bible Note: Well of course it was your quote… “” The Greek papyri furnish us with an abundance of magical formulas couched in unintelligible terms (e.g. Pap. Lond., 121, “Iao, eloai, marmarachada, menepho, mermai, ieor, aeio, erephie, pherephio,” etc.), which are not infrequently connected with an ecstatic state (e.g. Reitzenstein, “Poimandres”, 53-58).” Poimandres is of course the most famous of the Hermetic writings, so I read. And then your subsequent follow up that defended the position and attempted to lessen the severity while condoning such a position with… “Hermeticism is that which treats some universal principles. Hermeticism does not always indicate sorcery. Only in today's culture is this term held to its worst degree.” You also go on to quote Philo and then even Celsus, who by the way, thought Jesus was no more than a bastard from his mothers adulteress affair with a soldier, who acquired certain magical powers while in Egypt and used them to project Himself as being God. Why would you even use writings from those individuals in attempting to “Biblically” support the gift of tongues or anything else for that matter? WOS |