I think you miss the simple fact that the gifts were there to substantiate the message and the messenger as both being from God.....Paul clearly uses the words cease, vanish and fail when it came to the three gifts listed.....He also clearly points to something coming online and the completeness of that which comes on line (the word of God).....what blows my mind about the so called gifts in the charismatic circle today is that fact that they are totally contrary to what took place in Acts....PETER spoke in HIS own language and the PEOPLE HEARD in their own languages.....it was not some mumbo jumbo being blurted out....and on top of that..it is MOSTLY WOMEN who do it which CONTRADICTS other scripture and women not USURPING authorithy over the men to TEACH the MEN........
The verse you comment on here, I Corinthians 13:11 is one of the big problems with a cessationist view of the passage.
If having these spiritual gifts is the equivalent of having the speech, knowledge, and understanding of a child, and not having them but having the completed canon is adulthood, then you have put yourself in a superior position to the authors of the New Testament.
The logical conclusion is that you think that your speech, knowledge, and understanding is like an adults, while the apostles was childish by comparison.
Notice that Paul spoke of himself having the speech, knowledge, and understanding and of himself putting away childish things. Paul will experience these things.
The fact that Christians disagree about such issues proves that we do not have perfect knowledge and understanding.
If having these spiritual gifts is the equivalent of having the speech, knowledge, and understanding of a child, and not having them but having the completed canon is adulthood, then you have put yourself in a superior position to the authors of the New Testament.
The logical conclusion is that you think that your speech, knowledge, and understanding is like an adults, while the apostles was childish by comparison.
Notice that Paul spoke of himself having the speech, knowledge, and understanding and of himself putting away childish things. Paul will experience these things.
The fact that Christians disagree about such issues proves that we do not have perfect knowledge and understanding.