tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9665353.post115499400982745934..comments2023-10-20T05:50:34.162-05:00Comments on with devotion: Cessationismkc bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17440862813109808755noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9665353.post-1155333391605065182006-08-11T16:56:00.000-05:002006-08-11T16:56:00.000-05:00I've been thinking on this for a while--your words...I've been thinking on this for a while--your words do that, KB--<BR/>I love this topic, too, because it reminds me of how great Jehovah is.<BR/><BR/>Do all of our differences really make a difference after all?<BR/><BR/>And I agree with DK on ONE POINT--<BR/><BR/>"...the(gifts) that are displayed today just seems to pale in comparison to what is biblical."God's Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05561357217539705033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9665353.post-1155136234282259582006-08-09T10:10:00.000-05:002006-08-09T10:10:00.000-05:00Thanks Andreia. I fixed the link.Thanks Andreia. I fixed the link.kc bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17440862813109808755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9665353.post-1155135042697183752006-08-09T09:50:00.000-05:002006-08-09T09:50:00.000-05:00KB Your link to Confessions did not work : ( Would...KB <BR/>Your link to Confessions did not work : ( Would love to read it!Andreia Huffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16826389170105845825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9665353.post-1155049323377836162006-08-08T10:02:00.000-05:002006-08-08T10:02:00.000-05:00I, too, love the topic!Until I became a reborn Chr...I, too, love the topic!<BR/><BR/>Until I became a reborn Christian 12 years ago at the age of 51, I was decidedly agnostic, not to mention a "cessationist." But since then, I have seen a number of instances when God's presence was very palpable. <BR/><BR/>For example: My brother was rushed into a heart catheterization because of several blockages. A large number of people prayed for him. Just before the procedure, the doctor told us that he very likely would go ahead and do bypass surgery. About an hour later, he summoned us and showed us the films. He said the blood was flowing perfectly well, and there were no blockages. He said, "I don't know how to explain that." I do. God did it. <BR/><BR/>The same thing happened to a man in our church. I know a woman who was healed of hepatitis C (the kind you can't get rid of) and another woman who was healed of multiple sclerosis. <BR/><BR/>Somewhere in a big fat book of Methodist doctrine (I'm a Methodist), I read that it was a mistake for the church to abandon the practice of healing services.<BR/><BR/>I think if people have "eyes to see and ears to hear," they'll see these miracles even today.<BR/><BR/>JudyJudy Callarman, Scrabble Has-Beenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479470085112931111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9665353.post-1155041465941468132006-08-08T07:51:00.000-05:002006-08-08T07:51:00.000-05:00"what do you think about the topic."I love the top...<I>"what do you think about the topic."</I><BR/><BR/>I love the topic!<BR/><BR/>It's funny, though. I don't think I ever took you for a charasmatic. I have nothing on which to base that. It's just the impression I got. <BR/><BR/>Obviously, I am a cessationalist. (Is that a word?)<BR/><BR/>But I still believe that God performs miracles today. (If you read my conversion story entitled "I love July 19th" then you know that I, myself, have experienced God's miraculous abilities in the form of both direct intervention, and physical changes.)<BR/><BR/>I am (temporarily) rusty on my doctrinal arguments right now. But setting that aside, I have not seen anyone speak in tongues the way the brothers and sisters did in the Scriptures. Why is it always the "tongues of angels" and not "German, learned on-the-fly"? I haven't seen any convincing healings, and not one raising of the dead. And I haven't seen any prophets emerge who have spoken the way a guy like Agabus did. <BR/><BR/>I dunno, even if it were biblically sound that the gifts still existed, the ones that are displayed today just seems to pale in comparison to what is biblical.<BR/><BR/>I am surely not trying to slam anyone or be incendiary. But I would assume that you would not have posted this if you dd not wish to discuss it with folks who disagree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com