The mystery doctrine revealed to Paul completed the Word of God. It ended the need for further revelation. When a person claims to prophecy God's will or interprets tongues, they are 'claiming' that God is speaking through them (Acts 2:4). This is a blanket denial of the complete and final authority of the written Word of God.
We simply cannot believe that God's Word is complete while claiming that He continues to give further revelation of His will through extra-Biblical revelations. This is exactly the meaning of prophecy and interpretations. In the Jewish church in Acts, these giftings were still valid as they were used to communicate revelation from God, since the completed scriptures were not yet available.
Today, the Bible is the full revelation of God. The scripture is complete. God has finished His Word. It is through the Word of truth written in a book, studied as rightly divided, that God speaks today --and through which we grow up in Christ and become workmen of God (Eph 4:15; 2 Tim 2:15).
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