W
PLEASE TELL ME YOUR INTERPRETATION OF 1CORINTHIANS13:1-6 IN REGARD TO THIS QUESTION: HAVE THESE GIFTS BEEN BESTOWED BY GOD UPON THE UNSAVED TOO, OR DID THEY LOSE THEIR SALVATION BY WORSHIPPING THEIR GIFT RATHER THAN THE GIVER OF THE GIFT? ONCE THE GIFT IS GIVEN, IS IT TAKEN AWAY BECAUSE OF LACK OF CHARITY/LOVE?
OR WERE THESE GIFTS GIVEN BY GOD, GIVEN TO THEM AS A CHILD, WHEN THEY HAD MUCH FAITH, BUT HAD NO PRIDE & WERN'T PUFFED UP?
FOR EXAMPLE, I KNEW SOME PEOPLE WHO WENT TO JIM JONES' ORIGINAL CHURCH. THEY CLAIM THAT HE HAD GIFTS FROM GOD INCLUDING HEALING. AFTER A WHILE THESE PEOPLE LEFT HIS HUMBLE 1ST CHURCH, BECAUSE THEY SAID HE STARTED DOING FAKE HEALINGS.
THE NON CHRISTIAN PEOPLE I SEE ON TV WHO USUSALLY MAKE SUCH GENERAL CLAIMS TO AN ENTIRE AUDIENCE, THAT SOMEONE IS BOUND TO FIT INTO THIER "KNOWLEGDE/GIFT", I JUST CONSIDER THEM SNAKE OIL SALESMEN WITH NO GIFT AT ALL, EXCEPT THEFT & PREYING ON THE GRIEF STRICKEN.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO MAY APPEAR TO HAVE A GIFT FROM GOD, YET DO NOT PROFESS CHRISTIANITY, OR ARE OFTEN WRONG IN PROPHECY, & SOMETIMES CORRECT.
(NOT SPOKEN PRESUMPTUOUSLY). SO WERE THOSE PEOPLE GIFTED, THEN BECAME PROUD OF THE GIFT, YET THE GIFT WAS NOT TAKEN BACK, WHILE THEY CONTINUED TO SPEAK THINGS WHEN THEY KNOW GOD DIDN'T TELL THEM TO? (FOR MORE ATTENTION).
1- "though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal"2- "And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."
4-Charity suffereth long, and is kind, charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5= doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil. 6- rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth."
OR WERE THESE GIFTS GIVEN BY GOD, GIVEN TO THEM AS A CHILD, WHEN THEY HAD MUCH FAITH, BUT HAD NO PRIDE & WERN'T PUFFED UP?
FOR EXAMPLE, I KNEW SOME PEOPLE WHO WENT TO JIM JONES' ORIGINAL CHURCH. THEY CLAIM THAT HE HAD GIFTS FROM GOD INCLUDING HEALING. AFTER A WHILE THESE PEOPLE LEFT HIS HUMBLE 1ST CHURCH, BECAUSE THEY SAID HE STARTED DOING FAKE HEALINGS.
THE NON CHRISTIAN PEOPLE I SEE ON TV WHO USUSALLY MAKE SUCH GENERAL CLAIMS TO AN ENTIRE AUDIENCE, THAT SOMEONE IS BOUND TO FIT INTO THIER "KNOWLEGDE/GIFT", I JUST CONSIDER THEM SNAKE OIL SALESMEN WITH NO GIFT AT ALL, EXCEPT THEFT & PREYING ON THE GRIEF STRICKEN.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO MAY APPEAR TO HAVE A GIFT FROM GOD, YET DO NOT PROFESS CHRISTIANITY, OR ARE OFTEN WRONG IN PROPHECY, & SOMETIMES CORRECT.
(NOT SPOKEN PRESUMPTUOUSLY). SO WERE THOSE PEOPLE GIFTED, THEN BECAME PROUD OF THE GIFT, YET THE GIFT WAS NOT TAKEN BACK, WHILE THEY CONTINUED TO SPEAK THINGS WHEN THEY KNOW GOD DIDN'T TELL THEM TO? (FOR MORE ATTENTION).
1- "though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal"2- "And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."
4-Charity suffereth long, and is kind, charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5= doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil. 6- rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth."
