Originally Posted by
tdidymas
Your argument appears to be right in theory, except for one statement you appear reversed from what I would see as a logical argument:
It seems to me that edification
should be (in theory) the
result of daily usage and "unyielding pattern to investigate this element."
Yet your argument is reversed of this. Why is this? If you are trying to say that "building oneself up" is the activity leading toward the result of edification, then your argument doesn't follow either, since those two items is the activity itself. So your argument appears circular. Like saying "the activity of self-edification results in self-edification."
So then, let me be more specific in my question:
How exactly are you edified? What is your tongue-talking doing for you? What is the fruit of it?
TD
Thank you for the correction. Would this correct the spirit of the message? “would be a sound decision for building oneself up.”
What is it doing for me? I would have to forward that question to the Lord’s own reasoning. How am I to know what He would cl***ify as unprepared territory to bless if I wasn't involved with the gift? If overly concerned with what you will wind up with, keep in mind that p***age in Luke.
9“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10“For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened. 11“Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12“Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he? 13“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” (Luke 11:9-13)
It would be difficult to separate the gift from the Giver.