Objection: Paul Didn’t Mention Any Spiritual Gifts to Timothy and Titus When Discussing Church Matters. The Reason for This Is the Miraculous Gifts Weren’t Even Something to Talk About at That Time.
Arguments from silence are dubious at best. I could use the same “argument from silence” to declare that the moral integrity of elders and deacons was not something to talk about at the time at Corinth because he did not include a list of moral qualifications for them as he did to Timothy and Titus.
You can’t expect every letter to say everything! We have all the different letters so that we can read what we need to know when we read all of them. No single epistle has all truth – if it did, the other ones would be unnecessary.
You could just as well say that spiritual gifts were “in order” in these pastors’ churches so that Paul had no need to correct anything that was going on as he did at Corinth. That’s the problem with such arguments from silence!
However, we can silence the argument that Paul didn’t recognize Holy Spirit power at work anymore. Was the Holy Spirit only poured out abundantly on the church at Corinth? No! Paul told TITUS (of all people!) that He had been poured out abundantly!
Titus 3:5-6:
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
No evangelical would deny that the “us” whom Jesus saved according to His mercy includes us. I don’t know any who would teach that the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit does not apply to us. Thus, since “shed on us abundantly” is part of this same sentence, the Holy Spirit has been poured out on us abundantly.
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