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cessationism

  1. didactics

    How should we analyze Brian Clark’s amazing story?

    From a cessationist point of view is it possible to receive a vision from God or by an angel if it’s for the purpose of preserving one’s life? I understand that visions aren’t necessary if we have God’s Word; He can instead lead us to hear His Word preached. Any thought’s on this would be...
  2. HatGuy

    Cessationists: How does God guide you?

    I figure this forum will probably consist of the most cessationist, but please put this somewhere else if I am wrong. My question is to understand from cessationists how God guides them to make decisions - where they will live, how to live out their vocation, etc. Say you feel you would like...
  3. chadMiddleMan

    Middle Ground Theology on the Big 5

    Hi Everyone! This is Chad from the Middle Ground. I've dedicated the past couple of decades to reading, researching, pondering, and writing about proposed Middle Ground positions for several major theological categories, Old Earth vs Young Earth, Arminianism vs Calvinism, Credobaptist vs...
  4. rakovsky

    What early Christian writings described the "cessation of prophets"? (Solved)

    (Update: Based on the research and discussion below, the answer is basically Tertullian and Origen) Book I of the Christian Sibyllines from the first few centuries AD appears to describe the foundation of the church of the Christians who follow the New Covenant, then the leading of the church...
  5. A

    Theologies of Healing

    I'd like to have a cordial discussion about miraculous healing, but we'll have to see how this goes. :) As an opening question, do you think healing is always God's will? I'm not asking if it always happens. They answer to that question would be rather obvious. But as we know "it is not God's...
  6. Bible Highlighter

    Cessationism: Tongues, Prophecy, and the Gift of Miracles Have Ceased.

    Cessationism: Tongues, Prophecy, and the Gift of Miracles Have Ceased. (Note: This does not mean miracles have ceased, but it means that the gift of healing or the gift of miraculous gifts and prophecy as seen in the early church has ceased). Important Note: Please keep in mind that I am not...