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Well what are you going to do with I Cor 13:8?

this is a very misinterpreted passage, It simply states that All the gifts of the spirit are given in individual lives "for a season", accept for love. Love is the ultimate command for us as Christians. If we take the words quite literal, then no one in todays church would have any knowledge either.

The scripture is very clear in Corinthians as to the "personal prayer language" though it is not to be spoken in open during the duration of the service unless an interpreter is present, the Bible is very clear that it does exist, and that it is a gift from God. Banning any Christian from experiencing and or using one of Gods gifts is coming dangerously close to the very thing that led certain people to flee their homelands and inhabit this country, and yet people wonder why new "denominations" pop up every day. What do we expect when we pick and choose the parts of the Bible we choose to believe and practice. -say it loud

Well what are you going to do with I Cor 13:8?- tut tut

Just for clarification, how does that respond to the post? I am ambivalent on the practice.

(My Credentials: Bible College Graduate; elected and served as Deacon, in SB Church; representative at SBC, San Antonio, TX)

1 Cor 13: 1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues 2 but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,

5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,

6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially,

10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.

12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.

13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

I Cor 13 simply states that love is the greatest of the gifts. Knowlege, prophecy and tongues will cease / pass away / be stilled. Are you foresaking knowledge yet?