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his site exists to provide scriptural exegesis, links to resources, information, and cultural commentary from the reformed perspective. I am commited to the overarching sovereignty of God, the pursuit of His glory, and the five solas of the reformation.
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The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part XI
Conclusion This series has been far longer than I originally intended, but we have finally come to the end. In this post, I want to very briefly summarize the study so far. We began the study by looking at the spiritual gifts, and dividing them int...
The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part X
So far, we have surveyed various scripture from both the Old and New Testaments in order to establish the internal witness as to when the miraculous gifts were to cease. So far, we have seen that the Bible seems to point to a first century fulfillme...
The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part IX
Thus far, in an attempt to see if the Bible answers the question of “when?” we have looked at Acts 2.14-21 and 1 Corinthians 13.8-13. In this post, I want to take a quick look at a few other verses, some of which have been hit on several...
The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part VI
In the previous post, we looked at the nature of the gift of tongues and what exactly they were. We were able to conclude that the gift of tongues was the supernatural (spirit-given) ability to speak in earthly languages previously unknown to the spe...
The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part V
Having resolved the biblical office of apostle, I want to look at another specific spiritual gift before going back to generalities. The gift of tongues is probably that which comes under the most fire in today's continuationist movement. In this po...
The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part IV
In part III, I looked at the usage of "signs and wonders" in the New and Old Testaments, and we saw that in the majority of the verses that we found that the term was used to show that they were to authenticate and confirm the message and revelation...
The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part III
In the last installment, I listed out the gifts and divided them up between those that are generally agreed upon to be continued, and those that are in question as to whether they continue or not. I also stated that I would begin to discuss the offic...
The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part II
Before I get into the discussion of internal evidence of spiritual gifts, I want to briefly expand the introduction of part I to mention a few things. First, both the continuationist and the cessationist camps come in a variety of flavors. In the co...
The Continuationist/Cessationist Debate Part I
IntroductionThe debate on the charismatic gifts has gone back and forth throughout modern evangelicalism, regarding whether the miraculous gifts of the Spirit are still in use today or whether they had a specific function and have ceased. Far better...
