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Among us Christians are some who say they are Pentecostal, have gone so far as to pray in tongues, but then retracted. There is another established order they gravitate to. The cessationist fellows omit prophecy and knowledge... Parts of scripture, saying it applies no more. They then say the Bible is a complete book with nothing missing, as in Timothy, equipping the saints for all good works. I add here that this means they think Romans one describes all homosexuals and so they discipline their children to revert to heterosexuality. The assumption is that all homosexuals choose that inclination. I think this is an error.
With the same assumption, "God gave us a complete book in which He does one new thing after another, leading an account of God we can rely on to see Him always doing those same things over and over. Anything new can't be God. Because the Bible is complete, anything new is not God but a counterfeit. And there are no new revelations. All the truth we need is in the Bible, anything new is not from God. The revelation of the Father's heart of love is not true. Your commission prophecies are not true. The Spirit telling us new things about scripture is counterfeit."
These Pentecostals attack other mainstream Pentecostals on matters of revelation of truth, of God of mission... It seemed to start with a dislike of tithing. And doubts about prophecy...
They have aspects of cessationism and yet consider themselves Pentecostal.
I think the pattern is God always does new things, reveals Himself to His sons and daughters, and gives commissions and truths to us that line up with His word in the Bible. And that He can still do new things and give new revelations, in keeping with Bible love...
What do other fellows think?
With the same assumption, "God gave us a complete book in which He does one new thing after another, leading an account of God we can rely on to see Him always doing those same things over and over. Anything new can't be God. Because the Bible is complete, anything new is not God but a counterfeit. And there are no new revelations. All the truth we need is in the Bible, anything new is not from God. The revelation of the Father's heart of love is not true. Your commission prophecies are not true. The Spirit telling us new things about scripture is counterfeit."
These Pentecostals attack other mainstream Pentecostals on matters of revelation of truth, of God of mission... It seemed to start with a dislike of tithing. And doubts about prophecy...
They have aspects of cessationism and yet consider themselves Pentecostal.
I think the pattern is God always does new things, reveals Himself to His sons and daughters, and gives commissions and truths to us that line up with His word in the Bible. And that He can still do new things and give new revelations, in keeping with Bible love...
What do other fellows think?
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