Pilgrim

I wonder if you could expound on what you said in the following quote, by telling me why you believe this. Mainly the part that goes ("equivalent to those which are universal and pedagogical in nature").

"There are several places that record that people spoke in tongues or prophesied but are not equivalent to those which are universal and pedagogical in nature as is the majority of the New Testament Scriptures."

I was hoping you would also comment on the last part of my last post. To save you time, here it is again.


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).