tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207090717465549067.post9100809261938012388..comments2023-05-03T10:49:26.807-05:00Comments on THEE FAULTED BLOG: President Obama and the use of MediaTim Faultedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14661891731862299512noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207090717465549067.post-35836396237501980922009-01-28T11:20:00.000-06:002009-01-28T11:20:00.000-06:00RYC:Thanks Tim,First, I think current historical e...RYC:<BR/><BR/>Thanks Tim,<BR/>First, I think current historical evidence is demonstrating that tongues was not as absent as we originally thought. More and more evidence is popping up showing that we were wrong about that - and sometimes not so innocently wrong. That is, some church historians, with theological dispositions toward cessationism, skewed the evidence by either making tongues speakers look heretical or freak-show-ish, or just denied the existence of the phenomena among them. I think the Montanists were one example of a group that did speak in tongues. Though there were unofficially labelled as heretics b/c their ecstatic religious expressions.<BR/><BR/>Also, even if tongues had disappeared amongst most people -which it probably did, there is no logical reason to go from that evidence to the ceasing of tongues altogether. That is, there were many things that changed when the church became institutionalized under Constantine and a focus on the supernatural experience of Tongues may have had little place in their practice - much to their spiritual detriment, I’m sure. It could also be evidence of the Holy Spirit’s sovereign withdrawl of Himself from certain forms of ekklesia b/c of their refusal to believe.<BR/><BR/>I think I Corinthians 14 speaks about tongues in this way, so that’s why I made that comment. Though, I would add that there may be many, many more expressions of tongues that the Bible doesn’t comment on. Paul is not setting limits to the expressions of tongues in I Cor., he is setting limits on how the gift is to be understood in the context of the church gathering.Tom 1sthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16281465700829698800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207090717465549067.post-6014895682960053052009-01-23T10:01:00.000-06:002009-01-23T10:01:00.000-06:00Good word here, man. Good word.Good word here, man. Good word.Tom 1sthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16281465700829698800noreply@blogger.com