Pilgrim


I hesitate to get involved in this discuss, because I don't want you to think I am for the continuance of the sign gifts.

Your question to RefBap made me want to ask you a few questions.

What is the difference between someone such as Stephen and the many others in the book of Acts who were used in the charismatic gifts different than they may be today?
(Note, I am not advocating that what is going on in charismatic circles today is biblical)

Do you believe that every time a charismatic gift happened in the early church, it was recorded as Scripture?

Also, many say that those who seek after spiritual gifts such as prophesy, are wicked and adulterous. Yet we read in 1Cor. 14:1 that we should desire spiritual gifts.
Again I am not posing this question to support gifts like prophesy today, but it does seem to me that those who make that accusation are making their argument for the wrong context of Scripture.
What do you think?

It seems to me the context of Jesus’ indictment of sign-seeking, is seeking signs from God is "wicked and adulterous" when the demand for more and more evidence comes from a resistant heart and simply covers up an unwillingness to believe.
Whereas 1 Cor. 14:1 is talking about seeking sign for the edification of the church (1Cor.14:4).

Tom