[theoldmarine]

Just curious, would you stand against the religious establishment that forced speaking in tongues and the other gifts of the Spirit out of the Church in the first century in order to keep authority and power in the hands of ‘those who know better’?

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Just curious, would you stand against the religious establishment that forced speaking in tongues and the other gifts of the Spirit out of the Church in the first century in order to keep authority and power in the hands of ‘those who know better’?

My response may not be what you are looking for, because I reject your premises on several grounds. First, I believe that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit were a first century phenomena for the confirming of the Word of God. Second, I believe that the "religious establishment" consisted of the apostles and, after their death, of elders and deacons in individual congregations, at least until that ancient practice was corrupted in succeeding centuries. But perhaps to try and answer what you are getting at (and I'm not sure what you are getting at), I would stand for what I believed was right, and particularly so if it was an issue that struck at the heart of the battle between God and Satan.