then you take a very typical cessationist view and I wouldn't call it a partial.
Paul is referring to us lacking and in need of spiritual gifts to make us not lacking (hence the need of these gifts). the context starts in ch 12 which is all spiritual gifts. Paul begins to isolate certain gifts as it is his way of introducing the isolated correction to come of said gifts, he concludes, however, saying not to "forbid speaking in tongues". The framework Paul constructs seems to allow a place for tongues in some sort of self-edifying context, although interpretation is still stressed and it is admittingly sparse in teaching.
I suspect you would reject this but no matter, the crux of the issue you're presenting is the "when" which is isolated in 13:10 referring to when the perfect comes and holding to a view that the perfect has already come (hence the cessationist view). somehow you don't include this as "dangerous to build a spiritual belief or practice based on such scant biblical evidence" and to that, I ask, why is your controversial scant biblical evidence better than someone else?
tongues or even self edifying tongues are at least explicitly mentioned in scripture but this magic unknown time that apparently was sometime in or after the 1st century is completely uncommented. the eschatology view for "the perfect" is the only responsible way of interpreting this passage if we want to keep to sola scriptura concepts. otherwise we are just reverse translating scripture based on history and personal bias. Let's answer this question in a biblical vacuum first then ask is it valid today still using the same biblical principals but let's keep the "scant biblical evidence" out of it.
Here are several points in Scripture in defense of the ceasing of the miraculous gifts:
#1. Both
1 Corinthians 13 and
James 1 describe something that is “perfect” and “looking into a mirror.” In
1 Corinthians 13, that which is “perfect” fits the reference to the “Perfect law of liberty” (
James 1:25). The law of the Lord is “perfect” (
Psalms 19:7). All Scripture (the Bible) is profitable so that the man of God may be “perfect” unto every good work (
2 Timothy 3:16-17).
James 1:23 and
1 Corinthians 13:12 both describe the Bible as a mirror/glass that we see our reflection in. Some people look into a mirror and forget their physical appearance. Some people look into the Bible mirror and forget their spiritual appearance. Therefore, Glass / Mirror = Perfect = The Word of God.
1 Corinthians 13:12 describes the "perfect" as a glass mirror, just as
James 1:23 does.
2 Corinthians 3:18 also shows the glass, and hence the perfect to be the Word of God, which transforms us. It says: "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (Also see verse 15 in the same chapter). As we look into God's Word and we see Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit transforms us into the very image of Jesus Christ. "We all" means all believers, seeing in the Bible/glass, the glory of the Lord. "Open face" means that we can hide nothing from God; We must be open and honest with Him.
#2. The three greatest prophets and miracle workers in the Bible are Moses, Elijah, and Jesus. We see that the miracles that they performed were a way to authenticate them as a messenger from GOD and the Word of God that they provided (that would be immortalized into Scripture). We notice that after each of these prophets, there was a time of silence where no miracles were done. Just like with the prophets Moses, Elijah, and Jesus, miracles authenticated the apostles' message as from God. "And they (apostles) went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Word with signs (tongues, prophecies, healing, etc.) following. Amen."
Mark 16:20. Today the need for tongues and miracles has ceased. God has authenticated the apostles and the New Testament that they penned. This proves the temporary nature of tongues and miracles.
#3. We can see that after the book of Acts, the gifts no longer operated in Paul’s life like they once had. The sign gifts, tongues, prophecy, the gift of healing, etc. were operating all through the Book of Acts, and these gifts are mentioned in the letters that Paul wrote during the Acts period. But when we turn to the letters written after the Book of Acts—the 4 Prison Epistles, and the 3 Pastoral Epistles, we find that the sign gifts either aren’t mentioned at all or we see—as with the gift of healing—that they were no longer operating in Paul’s life. What he could do in Acts 28, he could no longer do in Philippians, or in 1 and 2 Timothy. He could heal all the sick on the island in Acts 28:9, but he couldn’t heal any of his closest co-workers—Timothy, Epaphroditus, Trophimus—after the close of the Book of Acts (See this article
here for the full explanation).
#4. Believers were built upon the foundation of the apostles. “For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;” (
Ephesians 2:18-20). We are said to have access by one Spirit unto the Father that is built upon the “foundation” of the apostles and prophets. Being an apostle is a gift (See
1 Corinthians 12:28-31). The qualifications of being an apostle was to have seen the risen Lord Jesus Christ (See
Acts of the Apostles 1:22-26). Paul said he met the qualifications as being an apostle because he had seen the risen Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:1 “…Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?” Paul called himself the “last prophet.” (
1 Corinthians 15:8-9). Paul says that God has set forth the apostles last (
1 Corinthians 14:9). This shows the temporary nature of one of the gifts because the gift of apostleship is a foundation that was already laid already with the saints being built upon such a foundation.
#5. Jesus suggested that there would be the kind of believer who would not see, and yet they would believe anyways. For Jesus said, "blessed
are they that have not seen, and
yet have believed." (John 20:29). This suggests that there would be believers who would not need miracles in order to believe. Jesus showed proof that the miracle of His resurrection was real to Thomas in the fact that he had him feel his side, etc. He wanted to physically have proof in order to believe. But Jesus said there will be those who will not see and yet they will believe. Jesus says they are more blessed because of this. It suggests that believers will not need of the continued operation of the working miracles of God in their life in order to continually believe. In other words, there will be a time when believers will walk by faith, and not by sight.