SRoper
Puritan Board Graduate
I've been having some difficulty with the idea of spiritual gifts. My problem is that what we today identify as spiritual gifts appear to me to be no different than the gifts or abilities that the unregenerate man has. If a Christian is good at teaching we say he has the spiritual gift of teaching. If a non-Christian is good at teaching we say it can't be a spiritual gift because he doesn't have the Holy Spirit. It doesn't really make sense to me. Wouldn't the spiritual gift of say knowledge be an immediate gift? How can knowledge gained through ordinary means be a spiritual gift? We don't say that a Christian that is good with languages has the gift of tongues, do we? Help me out here.