While
not the most commonly cited “proof-text” for sola scriptura, some opponents of
the Latter-day Saint belief in modern revelation cite 1 Cor 13:8-10. The NIV
reads as follows:
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they
will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is
knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but
when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
I
believe LDS apologist, Jeff Lindsay, blows this one of the water here.
It
should also be noted that Paul did not believe that he was living in a time of
this "completeness," for later in his letter, he speaks of his desire
that people would, not just speak in tongues, but also prophecy, and that he
himself speaks in tongues (1 Cor 14:5, 6; 18, 22-23, 39).
Furthermore,
notice that Scripture is never mentioned in this pericope. What Paul is
discussing is the superiority of love. Absolutising this verse in the same
eisegetical manner some wish to do, one would have to argue that this pericope
precludes, not proves, not just sola scriptura, but the important of any
Scripture whatsoever!
