Are you a Continuationist or a Cessationist?

[ChristIsSovereign]

Continuationism: Charismatic, Pentecostal, etc.
Cessationism: Most Baptists, Presbyterians, etc.

I vote Cessationist.

 

[marineimaging]

What specifically does a Cessationist do to make them not a Continuationist? I don't know how my being a Baptist would qualify me as either or...?

 

[Brian Mcnamee]

4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

 

[Tree of Life]

Cessationist.

 

[ChristIsSovereign]

What specifically does a Cessationist do to make them not a Continuationist? I don't know how my being a Baptist would qualify me as either or...?

It's hard to explain... essentially we believe Pentecostal tongues, manifestations, etc. are false.

 

[marineimaging]

It's hard to explain... essentially we believe Pentecostal tongues, manifestations, etc. are false.

What If I believe that a person can speak in a tongue if there is another person who understands it if the Lord so desires it for a purpose He deems necessary. I mean, if a blind man can be made to see, a lame man to walk, a diseased woman to be healed, God can do anything He wishes. If He wants me to tell a person about Christ and we speak two different languages, I am certain that God will either make my tongue his, or his ear mine, or our language universal. What does that make me?

 

[A_Thinker]

Sounds like ... whether or not you believe that the gifts of the Spirit (tongues, healing, discerning of spirits, prophecy, etc.) continue today ... or have ceased ...

It should be noted that some gifts (i.e. Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Giving, Leadership, Mercy, etc.) have, obviously not ceased.

 

[ChristIsSovereign]

Sounds like ... whether or not you believe that the gifts of the Spirit (tongues, healing, discerning of spirits, prophecy, etc.) continue today ... or have ceased ...

It should be noted that some gifts (i.e. Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Giving, Leadership, Mercy, etc.) have, obviously not ceased.

I believe that tongues, healing, and prophecy have ceased.

I believe that the discernment of spirits continues to this day, in that we can tell true from false with our Holy Spirit-guided 'gut.'

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Continuationism: Charismatic, Pentecostal, etc.
Cessationism: Most Baptists, Presbyterians, etc.

I vote Cessationist.

Actually, this can be sliced up into more than two categories.

 

[ChristIsSovereign]

Actually, this can be sliced up into more than two categories.

Of course it could, but I'm listing the two major viewpoints on the issue.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Of course it could, but I'm listing the two major viewpoints on the issue.

...well, then, I vote for a moderated form of Continuationalism, but one in line with Robert L. Saucy.

 

[ChristIsSovereign]

...well, then, I vote a moderated form of Continuationalism, one in line with Robert L. Saucy.

I'm on the opposite side, being cessationist with select exceptions, e.g. God giving someone the knowledge of a language to evangelize in a foreign country, miracles that happen when enough people pray for it, e.g.

 

[Hearingheart]

Well, I guess I'm a Continuationist, although with moderation and balance.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

I'm on the opposite side, being cessationist with select exceptions, e.g. God giving someone the knowledge of a language to evangelize in a foreign country, miracles that happen when enough people pray for it, e.g.

From my more philosophically oriented position as a Christian, I think it's fine if you see things that way and I can agree that a lot of what passes for Gifts of the Spirit today most likely aren't a good representation (to put it mildly) of what God was actually doing among the first disciples in the 1st century.

At the same time, I don't see anything in Scripture that makes me think Cessationism offers the clincher argument, other than a very, very vague reference by Paul in 1 Corinthians 13 about prophecies and tongues ceasing at some point for some reason. Of course, if we were to take this as some kind of oncoming MasterPlan to be put into effect by the Lord with some supposed completion of the biblical "canon," then that other little bit about "knowledge also passing away with the oncoming of love" doesn't seem to have very much cogency or coherence.

No, I think Paul was being more general and wasn't speaking in connection to any foresight he might have had (or not had) that the Instituted Church would at some point "define the New Testament canon."

 

[Travelers.Soul]

There is actually a third option called "open but cautious." I grew up southern baptist, have been an active member of a southern baptist church since I was saved, went to southern baptist schools both for college and seminary, and am a southern baptist pastor's daughter. Most southern baptists I have known (until recent), as well as most of my professors, were in the "open but cautious" category.

 

[Thedictator]

Continuationism: Charismatic, Pentecostal, etc.
Cessationism: Most Baptists, Presbyterians, etc.

I vote Cessationist.

I'm a Bible Restorationist, and I guess a Cessationist.

 

[ChristIsSovereign]

I'm a Bible Restorationist, and I guess a Cessationist.

I'm essentially a non-denominational fundamentalist.

 

[Floof]

Continuationist I think.

 

[Sanoy]

Do full cessationist view a return of the gifts in the last days or is it viewed as stopped for good? (Just a question)

 

[Thedictator]

I'm essentially a non-denominational fundamentalist.

I believe that my church fellowship is also non-denominational, we believe that denominationalism is a sin (1Corinthians 1:10-13). We believe that there is only one Church, and that church must follow the pattern given to us in the New Testament. If your church is a new testament church then your the Church. Man made extras are a sin.

So what makes you a fundamentalist? I know what people say about them, but I rarely get a chance to here from one on what they really believe.