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It's also interesting that not one solid piece of evidence for "sign gifts" has been presented on this thread. Lot's of "you're so bad for being sceptics" and lots of deflection to other topics, but no solid evidence at all.
I leave some room for mystery so as not to condemn myself just in case I am wrong.
I am looking for a more comprehensive biblical case for why a Christian would believe in Continuationism and not just a passage or two (Which could be taken out of context). I am open to Continuationism (even though I currently lean towards Cessationism).
So really it is not up to the continuationist to explain their plain reading of scripture position.
I'll have you know that I am SILLY Uncle Wayne and don't you forget itYou are correct, Uncle Wayne.
I do not doubt that God can heal today, and that God healed your daughter. What we do not find today is a person who can touch people and they ALWAYS heal 100% of the time as a part of having the gift of healing. The apostles who healed were able to heal all that came to them during the time of the early church when they had that gift. Paul healed a whole bunch of people, but later in his life, and he even sent clothes to heal others. It did not appear he had this same ability later on in his life because he was recommending Timothy to drink a little wine in his water for the infirmities of his stomach. Paul did not send him a healing cloth so as to 100% cure his condition. This to me suggests the temporary nature of the gifts (Which was to confirm the Word).
The Bible does say some gifts will cease - tongues, prophecy and knowledge, which AS A GIFT would seem to be WORD OF KNOWLEDGE.
I don't mean this rude, I really don't, but when I read this I literally laughed out loud.Yeh, it is.
They need to explain how if the gifts ceased, they really didn't.
That's the entire issue. It's not how various Bible passages can be interpreted differently by the two sides.
As I am following along with these posts, it looks like "Bible Highlighter" couldn't have made the answer to your question any clearer than he did by highlighting the answer in red, straight from Scripture.
I already told you the good news. The good news is believing that Christ died for our sins, He was buried, and He was risen three days later for our salvation according to 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.
Not sure I agree. There have been gifts throughout the history of the Church, sometimes more and sometimes less. And miracles have continued. It wasn't a short term thing that went away and has now finally come back.The prophecy regarding the coming of the Holy Spirit was compared to the early and latter rain. Pentecost was the early rain, then the long mostly dry summer, and now the latter rain has fallen. Both the early and latter rain had to do with the beginning and ending of the covenant by Jesus. He's coming, probably within 10 years.
If you want to believe that, go ahead. I might hope it will happen soon, but I'm not going to set any timetable.He's coming, probably within 10 years.
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