2011年12月18日星期日

This passage destroys that false doctrine

What will that be? Faith, hope, and love. What does that mean? Well, for one thing it means that if hope still abides after spiritual gifts are gone the spiritual gifts will be gone before Jesus returns to earth. We still "hope" after the gifts have vanished but why am I hoping if Christ has already returned and I am now in possession of that for which I had been hoping. Once you have received that which you were hoping for you do not continue to hope for it there is no need. Do not let anyone tell you that spiritual gifts are going to last until Jesus returns. This passage destroys that false doctrine. One must understand that prophecy, tongues, and inspired knowledge as spiritual gifts were representative of all spiritual gifts in that all were to vanish and not just those three.That which "is perfect" in the passage is the final total revealed will of Christ the completed revelation of Christ the New Testament in its totality of inspired teaching. Revelation was not all given in a single day or a single year. It was a matter of a gradual revealing of the truth over a period of a few decades in the first century until all was given that was to be given. Perhaps reading 1 Cor. 13:10 will help you see this when read from another translation, "But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away." (1 Cor. 13:10 ESV) Spiritual gifts were the partial. Completed revelation was the "perfect." One has to bear in mind that the word "perfect" often means "complete" in New Testament usage and this passage is an example of it. The International Standard Version of the Bible translates 1 Cor. 13:10, "But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will be done away with." (ISV) The New Living Translation has it as follows, "But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless." (NLT) Full understanding came when Rosetta Stone Spanish Latin full revelation was complete.Another passage teaching the same thing is Eph. 4:11-15, "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head - Christ." (NKJV)Note that apostles and prophets were to be only for a time note the word "till" in verse 13. When would the "till" arrive? We can figure that out. We have enough information to do that. Note that when that time arrives we will no longer be children tossed about by every wind of doctrine. This tells us that when the "till" comes ("we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood" - Eph. 4:13 ESV) that false doctrine will still be taught but we will no longer be carried about by it. This means we are talking about a time prior to the return of Christ for upon his return false doctrine becomes a thing of the past. So again we prove that miracles, spiritual gifts, etc. are not to last until the return of Christ.

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