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The Importance of Principles in Prescriptive Texts
Pentecostals will do this when it comes to salvation in the Book of Acts. They'll say, look, are all these people who spoke in tongues when they got saved. So they take a descriptive text describing what's happening and then apply it prescriptively for us. It would be the equivalent of saying, any time there's a dispute in the church, we should split up rather than striving for the bond of peace.