[Sean]

Originally Posted by Godsdrummer

Actually he is closer to the true understanding of this passage then you are!
I wonder just how you read sometimes. Or if you can read. Oh I know you can read words, but when they are put into sentences longer than "see Jane run" you mind must go in to hyper drive.

You laugh at the thought that maturity puts away childish things? But that is just what Paul states in the verse 11. When I became a man, I put away childish things.
Another thing you might not grasp is that nowhere does it say tongues will cease not prophecy, nor knowledge. Paul is comparing these to Charity, saying that Charity will never fail.
Paul wraps the whole thing up by saying, three things abide forever, Faith, hope and Charity, and the greatest of these is Charity.

Loren, do you believe like Benincasa on this passage too?