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December 28th, 2020. Introduction

One of the problems associated with being a cessationist is that people think that you must hold the idea as the firmest of doctrines,

that the Holy Spirit no longer does anything in this world.

Another problem is that some of your fellow

cessationists agree with it somehow, not recognizing it as a grotesque caricature

of the cessationist position. Secationism holds a certain particular signg gifts, e.g. prophecy, healing, are no longer

operative today, but which is not the same thing as believing that God is no longer operative

today.

To say that the sign gifts were of limited duration is not to say that God is dead.

In a nutshell, the cessationist position in a nutshell holds that in former days God spoke to us through the prophets. This This foundational work was attended with miraculous power so that the people could know that the people speaking the word of God to them had the authority to do so.

God set the foundations right where he wanted them and no builder coming afterwards would have the authority to move anything.

Subsequent builders could build up but not out.

We could identify who these foundation workers were because they brought their authentication with them.

2 Corinthians 12 says,

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patients, in signs and wonders and and mighty deeds.

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