Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Paul's Spiritual Gifts Are Not a Tier List (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Wisdom, healing, prophecy, tongues — the gifts of the spirit sometimes get treated like a skill tree you level up, but 1 Corinthians 12 isn't handing out superpowers. Instead, Paul is refereeing a squabble, and his point is that a body needs a hand as much as a head.

This week on Data Over Dogma: what the gifts actually are, why Paul counts celibacy among them, and how a spirit-led movement turned into an org chart with qualifications.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome and Whence
0:49 A Listener's Suggestion
1:37 Gifts of the Spirit
1:47 Starting in 1 Corinthians 12
2:07 Where Else They Appear
3:03 Paul Writes to Corinth
3:45 Spirituals, Not Gifts
4:09 Paul's Actual Argument
4:42 Diversity Without Hierarchy
5:45 Edification and Order
6:12 The Skill-Tree Misconception
7:34 The Encanto Model
7:59 Celibacy as a Gift
8:53 The Magic Mike Detour
10:52 Not a Prize Catalog
11:17 Gifts or Roles
12:52 A Spirit-Led Church
13:19 The Pastoral Epistles
14:32 Romans 12's Gift List
15:26 Fledgling Movement, Then Institution
16:44 Tongues: Two Kinds
18:04 Tongues on a Mission
19:23 Tongues in the Early LDS Church
20:43 Ephesians 4 and the Body
22:08 Cool Gift, Now What
23:36 Join Us and Patreon
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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Who Broke the Holy Spirit?

AiG's Tim Chaffey claims to debunk EVERY major Bible contradiction in 26 minutes. Can he do it? Or does he break the Holy Spirit?







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