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Originally Posted by aron
Your comments on Corinth are interesting. It took me a long time, post-LC, to realize that Paul was not so much giving the saints the permission to function, with the phrase "you can all prophesy", as he was trying to bring their function into line, with the stress on the following "one by one".
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aron, we received lots of bad teaching in the Recovery from this epistle. Paul said he would show us a "more excellent way," but after listening to WL, most were persuaded that prophesying was this "more excellent way." We were basically taught that "all must prophecy one by one," when the scripture really says that all the prophets should should wait their turn and "prophecy one by one." As you said, Paul in this book endeavored to correct problems in Corinth, rather than mandate methods for all time. If there was a mandate, however, it would be
love, which always seems to be the first thing discarded when zealots go searching for the right way to "play church."