So you are unable to answer my question after all, obviously in this passage you presented it is meant to be metaphorical but in the verse I gave it clearly is not it just flies in the face of your belief so you reject it.
Yell me this then what did Jesus mean if it is not to be taken literally? if no one comes to him except the father draws them what did he mean by that?
I was simply giving an example as to how, just because Jesus said something, does not mean it pertains to today.
So? Are we to speak in tongues today?
After Israel was to be warned by that sign gift up until Jerusalem was demolished in 70AD?
1 Corinthians 14:20-22a
Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants,
but in your thinking be adults.
In the Law it is written:
“With other tongues
and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
but even then they will not listen to me,
says the Lord.”
Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers.
Tongues were as a sign to unbelievers!
Like the plagues of Egypt were to be a sign to Pharaoh - who would not believe!
T
ongues then ended.
For Jerusalem and the Temple had been destroyed by Titus in 70AD.
“With other tongues
and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
but even then they will not listen to me,
says the Lord.”
Shalom.....