If continuationism were true, there would be no argument about it among Christians.
The suggestion here is that God, if he were truly continuing to distribute miraculous and revelatory charismatic gifts throughout the Body of Christ, as Rom 12:3—8 teaches he does, then cessationism would be abandoned because of the obvious work of the Spirit’s grace in every church. In other words, if tongues and prophecy were occurring...
Monday, November 4, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Confronting Common Arguments and Objections to the Continuation of the Charismatic Gifts — Objection 4
Tongues were given by the Spirit for the proclamation of the gospel, in actual languages. Therefore, those who purport to exercise tongues as a private prayer language demonstrate both their ignorance of Paul’s teaching and the invalidity of their experience.
Are tongues only given for proclaiming the gospel in an unknown language?
No, tongues are not given for evangelism at all.1 They are given to extol the mighty works...
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