Romans922
Puritan Board Professor
3. It was essential that they should be infallibly inspired, and thus protected against error and mistake in their public teaching, whether by word or by writing (John 14:26; 16:13; 1 Thess. 2:13; Deut. 18:20).
Well, I suppose that the Spirit doesn't speak to us anymore. Pity. The Helper was only for the Apostles, and now He's left us.
Also, when the Apostles spoke with the authority of the Spirit, they were infallible -- not all the time. Look at Peter, who had to be rebuked by Paul for succumbing to peer pressure.
I wrote this a couple of pages ago, with no response:
" 'In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
he sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
Note how it says "the last days." That's the entire time from Jesus' first coming to His second coming(judging by Scripture). It does NOT say "in the apostolic age . . . your sons and daughters will prophecy."
[Edited on 6-27-2005 by Romans922]