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To: trebb

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 1 Corinthians 13:8-10

Paul wrote that when the perfect came the partial would cease.

The “perfect” came in 70 AD, when the partial - the Law - was finally and forever done away with in the destruction of the Temple (the “reformation” of Hebrews 9).

I would strongly urge all to read the book of Hebrews to understand the significance of what the imperfect vs. the perfect meant.


30 posted on 06/14/2013 1:50:24 PM PDT by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: Stingray

On other words, the apostolic understanding of perfect vs. imperfect is canonized in the book of Hebrews.


33 posted on 06/14/2013 3:56:45 PM PDT by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: Stingray; trebb
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 1 Corinthians 13:8-10

I've had people tell me that their gift of tongues was a heavenly language and that the Holy Spirit was praying through them "in words that cannot be uttered". They insisted that ALL Christians should pray in the Spirit - but to them that means we all should speak in tongues. I believe the Scripture you posted disproves that contention since Paul says that these "tongues" would cease. I imagine that in heaven we will all be able to understand each other no matter what our native language was while here on earth and there will be no deaf or mutes there, either. Therefore, the heavenly language is NOT the same thing as the tongues/unknown language God gifted to those first century believers. That gift was a special one designed to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations - both those represented in Jerusalem that first Pentecost after the resurrection as well as the new believers spread throughout the world when the church began.

37 posted on 06/14/2013 9:59:13 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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