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Why should I not let others know that I decided long ago to invest in the better commentaries on First Corinthians and that I make the effort to search for the older commentaries and scan them; should I allow ignorance to be a badge of honour! Hopefully, by the end of next year I will have established a comprehensive website that will be based on this material, which will mean the end of my presence on this forum.What your testimony of having the most commentaries and being the most prolific responder on 1 Corinthians says to me is that it proves all the books in the world can not make one wise if he misses the foundational work needed.
I am glad for you that you feel the need to tell everyone about your library. Personally I do not think that is a wise thing to do and the 2nd reason I do not do that is because my arm is not long enough to pat my own back.
As for my rather substantial library, which consists of over 800 commentaries and many of them having been recently published, if nothing else, it should let the cessationists realise that if they wish to make unsubstantiated comments that I should be able to pick them up on this.
As an example, I would not expect to see any of the cessationists who have posted on this particular thread ever trying to say that the historical understanding that teleion is that it relates to the Canon of Scripture. Having said this, I am aware that I need to check somewhere between a dozen to maybe 20 commentaries on First Corinthians that were written from the late 1800's to the first few decades of the 20th century, which is a task that I hope to complete over the next few weeks. Once the material has been sourced I will assemble it within a PDF file and post it onto the forum.
Guess what, once this task is completed I will then be able to say that I have quite a few more commentaries on 1 Cor 1, 12, 13 &14!!
As our ability to speak in tongues was never intended to speak to man but to God then I suspect that even some of the Twelve had to spend some time learning to speak Greek and/or Latin.Nonetheless, to me personally and you are welcome to disagree with me, but by simple observation anyone can confirm that the miracle of tongues has ceased. If the gift were still available today, there would be no need for missionaries to attend language school.
Again, as I have stated on numerous occasions within this thread, the 120 never spoke to the crowd but they spoke words of praise that were being directed to the Father; nothing within Luke's account of the Day of Pentecost should lead anyone to think that the 120 were speaking an evangelistic message to the crowd - that is simply an old wives tale.Missionaries would be able to travel to any country and speak any language fluently, just as the apostles were able to speak in Acts 2 and we would not be having this lovely conversation.
The problem here is that you are not differentiating between the Signs & Wonders that both the Twelve and Seventy performed with those of the Manifestations of the Spirit, the two are not one and the same. With Signs & Wonders the Father is the Agent but the Holy Spirit is the Agent of the 9 Manifestations of the Spirit.As for the miracle gift of healing, we see in Scripture that healing was associated with the ministry of Jesus and the apostles in Luke 9:1-2. And, again by simple observation we can see that as the era of the apostles drew to a close, healing, like tongues, became less frequent.
The Apostle Paul, who raised Eutychus from the dead in Acts 20:9-12, did not heal Epaphroditus in Philippians 2:25-27, Trophimus in 2 Timothy 4:20), Timothy in 1 Tim. 5:23, or even himself in 2 Corinthians 12:7-9.
The question then must be WHY????
Signs & Wonders certainly have a specific purpose and even though they can be encountered today they are usually encountered within Greenfield regions, though the Father can certainly intervene if He so chooses within the local congregational level, which is contrary to the teachings of Wimber with his previous Signs & Wonders conferences.
As I have often stated, after the death of John there have certainly been no Apostles-of-Christ though the Office of the congregational apostle has certainly continued on down through the ages, though we tend to refer to them as Church planters.Again, IMO and not from a bunch of commentaries, since there are no Apostles today, all of the sign gifts have been replaced with the Completed Word of God.
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