This claim runs into serious difficulty with the description of the early churches as a body, in which those possessing different gifts were like the different parts. Not everyone was an arm or leg, and so likewise not everyone possessed any one gift, e.g. tongues. 1 Cor. 12:17, 27-30 makes this clear:- "If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?
Kadhia hii inagongana na ugumu wa maelezo kuhusu makanisa ya kwanza ulikuwa mwili, ambapo wale wanaomiliki karama tofauti - tofauti walikuwa kama viuongo mbali mbali. si kila mtu alikuwa mkono au mguu, na vivyo hivyo si kila mmoja alishika kipawa kimoja chochote, k.m Lugha. 1Kor.12:17, 27 -30 mistari hii yote inabainisha wazo hili:-