A major theological system rejects spiritual gifts on the claim that knowledge, tongues, prophecy, disappeared when the canon of Scripture was complete. That argument is based on this verse
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"Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away." I Corinthians 13:8-10.
The assumption is made that the expression "that which is perfect" refers to the completed Bible. At the time of Paul's writing not all New Testament writings were composed or bound as a volume. The writings were not finished for approximately another thirty years; canonizing of them (determining which ones were to be included as Scripture) did not occur until the year 367 A.D.
Let's examine the claim, "that which is perfect,” being a reference to New Testament Scripture:
