At which point does he say
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and so, brethern, the Penteteauch and the scrolls of the Prophets are good enough for eternity, now tell each other that no more prophecy may exist?"
He doesn't, let's make that clear, if it's not.
To reply to you and Oyster, on this, I want to add something that Paul wrote, which struck me the other day.
1 Corinthians 12, ,
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7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit,
9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,
10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.
11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit,"
So those who say that this is "
available to all immediately," may be correct in a fashion, since the Holy Spirit, and its fruits, is the evidence in our lives of our Salvation. If all of us have the same Spirit as Jesus, then we all have access to this, from the moment we are given to the Holy Spirit, or CAN. And this is where i'm unclear.
Jesus says all who ask receive. In a body of believers, perhaps our return on our request is from a fellow believer. But in our own lives, perhaps the same gifts really are available to each?
Maybe the difference between 1 Corinthians 12, and the speaking of Jesus that God gives to all that ask,
is specifically that Paul is using a ton of pages in this letter, to describe, specifically, what happens during Love Feasts, or the gathering of the Saints.
He's not saying you won't have the gift of healing from the moment you get the Holy Spirit, he's saying you'll each be appointed different tasks on a day, maybe, as God wills.