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Nine Manifestation Gifts

(1 Corinthians 12: 7-10)
To finish up with the various groups of gifts listed in the Bible,
there are those that are bestowed on Christians by the Holy Spirit
in special circumstances.
One could argue that these would be given irrespective of the temperament type.
This may be the case, and so I shouldn't try to make them correspond.
Nevertheless, there does seem to be a correspondence,
and maybe God tends to use those most predisposed to receive the gifts,
but not exclusively.
Wisdom and prophecy, as note before,
could be manifested most easily by the intellectual type;
miracle working and faith perhaps are best shown
in someone who wants to do things;
tongues would be most naturally expressed in the talker
(and less easily in the thinker);
healing and interpretation of tongues
should be most easily accepted by the compassionate observer;
and discerning of spirits would be close to the perceiver,
but needing a fairly balanced personality
so is in the middle at the top.
And the word of knowledge
would be a supernatural teaching ability - I think -
so also in the middle.
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