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Prophesies and Tongues ceased?

 Does Paul NEED TO say that "this is for the first century only"?  That's like a Muslim asking, "Where does Jesus say, "I'm God, worship Me!"... 

Yeah, I know this is a pretty tough one if we're being honest but.... 

While Paul brings this up:

And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 12:28 (LSB)

He then says THIS:  

Love never fails, but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

1 Corinthians 13:8 (LSB)

WHY??  Why does he say, SPECIFICALLY, prophesy and tongues will be done away with?

I won't be dogmatic about any of this.  But you would have to assume there's something different about the manifestation of the Spirit in believer's lives TODAY and what we see in scripture (of) the past.   Let's be honest. 

While I believe God can repeat anything that He has done in the past TODAY, nevertheless, it is still very possible that those manifestations of the Spirit were for the sake of SIGNS during the early church.  

And it DOES NOT help that much of what has been deemed as evidence of the continuance of the "gifts of the Holy Spirit" today... is just not very convincing.  

REFORMATION DAY 2026!

 Thank God for the Protestant Reformation!

Reformation Day celebrates the joyful beauty of the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ.

A single event on a single day changed the world. It was October 31, 1517. Brother Martin, a monk and a scholar, had struggled for years with his church, the church in Rome. He had been greatly disturbed by an unprecedented indulgence sale. The story has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster. Let’s meet the cast.

First, there is the young bishop—too young by church laws—Albert of Mainz. Not only was he bishop over two bishoprics, he desired an additional archbishopric over Mainz. This, too, was against church laws. So Albert appealed to the pope in Rome, Leo X. From the De Medici family, Leo X greedily allowed his tastes to exceed his financial resources. Enter the artists and sculptors, Raphael and Michelangelo.

When Albert of Mainz appealed for a papal dispensation, Leo X was ready to deal. Albert, with the papal blessing, would sell indulgences for past, present, and future sins. All of this sickened the monk Martin Luther. Can we buy our way into heaven? Luther had to speak out.

But why October 31? November 1 held a special place in the church calendar as All Saints’ Day. On November 1, 1517, a massive exhibit of newly acquired relics would be on display at Wittenberg, Luther’s home city. Pilgrims would come from all over, genuflect before the relics, and take hundreds, if not thousands, of years off time in purgatory. Luther’s soul grew even more vexed. None of this seemed right.

Martin Luther, a scholar, took quill in hand, dipped it in his inkwell and penned his Ninety-Five Theses on October 31, 1517. These were intended to spark a debate, to stir some soul-searching among his fellow brothers in the church. The Ninety-Five Theses sparked far more than a debate. The Ninety-Five Theses also revealed the church was far beyond rehabilitation. It needed a reformation. The church—and the world—would never be the same.

One of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses simply declares, “The Church’s true treasure is the gospel of Jesus Christ.” That alone is the meaning of Reformation Day. The church had lost sight of the gospel because it had long ago papered over the pages of God’s Word with layer upon layer of tradition. Mere tradition often brings about systems of works, of earning your way back to God. It was true of the Pharisees, and it was true of medieval Roman Catholicism. Didn’t Christ Himself say, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light”? Reformation Day celebrates the joyful beauty of the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ.

What is Reformation Day? It is the day the light of the gospel broke forth out of darkness. It was the day that began the Protestant Reformation. It was a day that led to Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, and many other Reformers helping the church find its way back to God’s Word as the only supreme authority for faith and life and leading the church back to the glorious doctrines of justification by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. It kindled the fires of missionary endeavors, it led to hymn writing and congregational singing, and it led to the centrality of the sermon and preaching for the people of God. It is the celebration of a theological, ecclesiastical, and cultural transformation.

So we celebrate Reformation Day. This day reminds us to be thankful for our past and to the monk turned Reformer. What’s more, this day reminds us of our duty, our obligation, to keep the light of the gospel at the center of all we do.

(taken from Ligonier.org)

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What is the doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture?

The word perspicuity means “clarity.” To say that something is perspicacious is to say that it is clear. The doctrine of the perspicuity (clarity) of Scripture is one of the basic tenets of Protestant evangelicalism regarding the Bible, along with the doctrines of the inspiration, inerrancy, and sufficiency of Scripture. In short, the doctrine of perspicuity means that the central message of the Bible is clear and understandable and that the Bible itself can be properly interpreted in a normal, literal sense.

The doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture was a main belief of the Reformers. Martin Luther taught against the Roman Catholic claim that the Bible is imperspicuous, that is, too obscure and difficult for the common people to understand. The Bible, the priests and bishops taught, was unclear, and the people should not be trusted to interpret or even read it for themselves. On the contrary, the Reformers encouraged lay Christians to study and interpret God’s Word on their own. The Reformers believed that the Bible proclaimed itself to be inherently clear and that God is able to communicate His message to all men, even the unlettered. A main tenet of the Reformation is that Scripture is clear enough for the simplest person to live by. Because of their belief in the perspicuity of Scripture, men like John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, Myles Coverdale, Thomas Matthew, and Pierre Olivétan went to great lengths to translate the Bible into the vernacular.

The Bible itself proclaims its own perspicuity. Deuteronomy 6:6–7 exhorts parents to teach the Scriptures to their children, indicating that they can be understood by children. The New Testament confirms this when the apostle Paul encourages Timothy to continue in the things he has known of the Holy Scriptures from childhood (2 Timothy 3:14–15a). Psalm 19:7 declares that the “testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple” (ESV). Surely, the simple cannot be made wise by something they are unable to understand. Psalm 119:130 further explains that God’s Word “gives understanding to the simple,” meaning that it is not necessary to be highly educated to comprehend its truths. The Bible’s meaning is clear to all.

The doctrine of perspicuity means the Bible is clear in its essential matters and able to expose to man that which is comprehensible to him about God—His nature, His character, His dealings with mankind in the past, and His plans for the future. The Bible is clear in all that is necessary for man to know in regard to his sinful state, his need for salvation, and the means of attaining that salvation, faith in Christ (Romans 3:22).

The doctrine of perspicuity does not mean that every passage of Scripture is equally clear as to its precise meaning. Certainly, there are passages that can be obscure to modern readers due to historical or cultural references. And some of the theology is difficult; Peter said that Scripture contains “some things that are hard to understand” (2 Peter 3:16). The perspicuity of the Word of God does not eliminate the need for interpretation, explanation, and exposition of the Bible by diligent scholars.

(To continue this article, click on this link)

https://www.gotquestions.org/perspicuity-of-Scripture.html

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BxBlues on TikTok!

 

What is good 'ol BxBlues doing these days!  I'm on TikTok ya'll!  

And I'm dealing with Sinless Perfectionists and Hyper-gracers!

Hyper-Gracers are just as theologically clueless as the sinless perfectionists with their bad-bible reading.

Consider the following:

So now I'm dealing w/ some sort of hyper-grace person on TT, and this guy is just as stubborn as the sinless perfectionists!  LOL

I don't even know where this guy is coming from but he doesn't seem to have a clear understanding of the basic reading of the text.  

He somehow thinks that we can't be perfect and the apostles expected us to be perfect so therefore we shouldn't repent or continue living by faith, b/c that's considered "works"!  ????

What the??

How ridiculous.

He wants to try and pin me down w/ his perhaps narrated and rehearsed questions but I might have him trapped in defining what the apostles goal was in all their exhortations to the churches about holy living - if they weren't able to achieve it. 

  If he answers, he expected them to be "morally perfect" then that's quite impossible and doesn't relate to us today and it would apply to us today and today's church but it's NOT what we're seeing even in our own lives!  If he says he didn't expect them to be perfect then what was all the exhortations for then??   

The truth is, you're either going to think you're perfect like the flawed sinless perfectionists are or you're going to say we need to leave those exhortations alone and just "believe one time"... which is stupid b/c what's the sense of believing and living as though you don't believe which is what makes the distinction between the world and the person of "faith".... how far can they get w/ that argumentation??

Not far at all!

So catch me on TikTok for those of you into Christian apologetics and theological issues concerning Christianity and The Word of God

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No Objective Morality??

 

How is it that some say, there is no objective morality?

This is a huge sign of where we are in this relativistic culture.

However, as humans, we sure can't live as though there is no objective morality or else society will come undone!  

I would say, this is why there is indeed so much social and emotional collapse happening w/in our culture today.

Secularism... It does a body, and a mind bad!

JOHN 17:3 - TRINITY EVERYWHERE!!

 Why do Muslims and other Unitarians/Universalists love using John 17:3 when it's PACKED with so much that points to Jesus Christ's exalted humanity and eternality? 

I will unpack at least FIVE POINTS which blow up the arguments of the deniers of The Lord!  :)

Be warned:  You can't have a false God nor a false Christ; you must KNOW HIM as HE IS.   Believe in Christ and LIVE!!

"And this is eternal life, that they may KNOW You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."