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Wisdom, healing, prophecy, tongues — the gifts of the spirit sometimes get treated like a skill tree you level up, but 1 Corinthians 12 isn't handing out superpowers. Instead, Paul is refereeing a squabble, and his point is that a body needs a hand as much as a head. This week on Data Over Dogma: what the gifts actually are, why Paul counts celibacy among them, and how a spirit-led movement turned into an org chart with qualifications. _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Welcome and Whence 0:49 A Listener's Suggestion 1:37 Gifts of the Spirit 1:47 Starting in 1 Corinthians 12 2:07 Where Else They Appear 3:03 Paul Writes to Corinth 3:45 Spirituals, Not Gifts 4:09 Paul's Actual Argument 4:42 Diversity Without Hierarchy 5:45 Edification and Order 6:12 The Skill-Tree Misconception 7:34 The Encanto Model 7:59 Celibacy as a Gift 8:53 The Magic Mike Detour 10:52 Not a Prize Catalog 11:17 Gifts or Roles 12:52 A Spirit-Led Church 13:19 The Pastoral Epistles 14:32 Romans 12's Gift List 15:26 Fledgling Movement, Then Institution 16:44 Tongues: Two Kinds 18:04 Tongues on a Mission 19:23 Tongues in the Early LDS Church 20:43 Ephesians 4 and the Body 22:08 Cool Gift, Now What 23:36 Join Us and Patreon _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #1Corinthians #GiftsOfTheSpirit #SpeakingInTongues