This post is not my usually-verbose set of thoughts, gang.
Rather, it is a quick-and-dirty, drive-by, Sunday morning hose-down and plea for consistency.
However, I wanted to cover some ground on those who like to believe that the miracles and other gifts of the Spirit have ceased.
For once, let us be consistent in our theology, those of us who are cessationists.
Here are my thoughts.
If some of the gifts have ceased, then why not all of the gifts?
If the gifts have ceased, then discernment has ceased.
If discernment has ceased, then there is no way we can supernaturally tell of the spirit behind the words or actions of a person.
If the gifts have ceased, then no one can be physically resurrected from the dead.
If the gifts have ceased, and the miraculous have ceased, and the miracle of raising someone from the dead does not take place, then let us be consistent and assume and assert that NONE the miracles in the book of Revelation, performed either by the L-rd or by the enemy, can take place.
However, if we assume that literal miracles can take place in the Scripture, then let us believe that they also can take place in the here and now.
Do let us be consistent, and let us cease wrangling with bad interpretations of the text.
