You have me wrong here. I believe I said that a Spiritual Gift doesn't merit superiority. And if the scripture has everything needed and the scripture teaches about gifts, should we not heed the teaching?
As for Timothy and Paul and their faith , your question seems a bit off. I have never stated that healing or any such thing requires super faith. I think I said that those with Super Spiritualism and wear a cape to show that are wrong and missing the point of the gift.
Because I believe in tongues as a gift of God doesn't mean I believe that non-believers are bad , or whatever. We just have a different opinion on the topic. We are allowed to have different opinions without jumping on the rage filled posts and war of words.
The Machine
Machine;
no rage filled post
and i know you
believe that the practice of 'speaking in tongues' of today is biblical.
i appreciate your sincerity, that you do really believe it.
but it just isn't. i say that not because i think you're lording anything over anyone.
but just simply because the uttering of unknowable "words" (sounds) is not what happened to the disciples at Pentecost.
they spoke clearly, miraculously, even in the regional dialects of the languages of the devout jews who came for Pentecost, from the gentile lands they resided in, having grown up speaking that local language.
the miracle at Pentecost was that those few disciples of the Lord's miraculously proclaimed in their visiting kinsmen's languages the Wonderful Works of God - the Good News about Jesus Christ (some of our New Testament truths). They received Power from on High to do this, even though they were simple Galileans.
and it was understood. It amazed them all
...can you imagine? it must have been something.
that was the miracle, and that is all that is meant by tongues. it's just an old word that means a known human language.
k...ttyl