1stCenturyLady
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Scripture doesn't support your claims. Tongues, Prophecy, and Word of Knowledge all expired with the Apostles who administered these gifts. God moves us inwardly by love and the witness of the Spirit. Also through the presence or absence of faith. But never apart from scripture since the close of the apostolic age.
Your premise is utterly unscriptural.
These gifts are all part of the New Covenant, and nothing in a covenant ends until the covenant, itself, ends. Like sacrifices in the Old Covenant ended when the New Covenant began. Not a jot or a tittle ended until it was fulfilled. The same is true in our New Covenant. Prophecy, tongues, knowledge, wisdom, healing, faith, miracles, interpretation, and discernment have not stopped. Nor have visions and answered prayer.
And, again, faith is a gift of the Spirit in response to a rhema, but it is faithfulness/endurance that is a fruit of the Spirit. What's more, all are given a measure of faith by the Father and is enough to accept or reject Christ with a free will and intent.
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