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November 2005

More on the charismatic debate

November 17, 2005

Cerulean Sanctum, Chis Daukas, True Grit and Gaddabout have blogged for the charismatic side. Posts from the other side seem rather sparse- I can only find one from David Wayne, and he doesnt really count as most people think he and I are the same person anyway! Meanwhile Rob continues to tirelessly keep us up [...]

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Fallible Prophecy?

November 16, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER has a helpful contribution to our debate on the charismatic view of prophecy. He explains Grudem’s view of NT prophecy and why he doesnt quite believe it. He concludes: “When we call something ‘prophecy’ that is really my own interpretation of some spontaneous impression we are giving a greater weight to that impression/interpretation than [...]

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Tim is growing to love the ESV

November 16, 2005

Tim has a great post where he is being the Tim we all love. He shares his thoughts from his reading of the ESV Old Testament, and shows in detail the weakness of some of the other translations. He concludes: “As I indicated earlier, I was grateful this morning that I have access to such [...]

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Fallible Prophecy?

November 15, 2005

Postscript Posthaste: Fallible Prophecy?: “When I read this post by Adrian Warnock this morning, I just had to respond. Particularly because he has backed himself into such a corner, he’s bound to come out the other side as either a cessationist himself or a very inconsistent charismatic (if he hasn’t achieved that title already).” He [...]

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Lets get some things straight in the charismatic prophecy debate

November 15, 2005

PyroManiac is a wiley rascal. He is STILL trying to claim that he o so innocently had no thought of cessation in is head when he started his series on modern prophets. But, cessationism is so much part of him that he didnt even need to have the thought in his head for it to [...]

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Calling all Lion the witch and the wardrobe marketing people

November 14, 2005

Challies Dot Com is complaining about marketing again, but this time its about the new Narnia movie. All I can say is that I wish some marketeer would approach me and our church about sneak previews and other such “evil” things connected to what should turn out to be the film of the year! I [...]

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Phil’s true feelings on the charismatic unmasked…..

November 13, 2005

Phil Johnson is trying to act all coy over on his blog about what he really believes about the charismatics. Well, I thought I’d let him speak for himself from three years ago: “…..I wish I had time even to give you a broad overview of the groups and individuals throughout church history who have [...]

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Update on the charismatic debate

November 13, 2005

Phil Johnson agreed with me that it is correct to speak of answered prayer outside of a miraculous context: I appreciate the prayers and the well-wishes, and I agree that God’s answer to Adrian’s prayer (by sending rain that eliminated the high pollen counts) was just as much an answer to prayer as a miracle [...]

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Questions from a reader for cessationists

November 11, 2005

correspondent asked me the following questions and agreed for me to put them to my blog readers: One question for cessationists would concern John 16:13: When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, [...]

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The charismatic debate – are impressions prophecy?

November 10, 2005

In the ongoing charismatic debate JOLLYBLOGGER: speaks of the reformed doctrine of providence: “I think this speaks to charismatics and cessationists. To the charismatics it blurs the natural/supernatural distinction. In other words its not as if God is absent from the natural and present in the supernatural. God is present in everything. The fact that [...]

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The charismatic debate – the gauntlet remains down

November 9, 2005

Miscellanies on the Gospel is THE place to go right now to catch up on all the posts. There seems to be a lot going on. What I want to see is some cessationists interacting with scripture on it. So far from what I have read I still havent read a single point based on [...]

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Charismatics, prophecy and healing

November 9, 2005

I hope that this latest charismata discussion will help us to correct misunderstandings. For example, Agent Tim thinks I believe tongues is a means of salvation- I have never said that and reject that notion totally! Also, unbelievably for me even after our debate of last year jollyblogger seems stuck with the idea that prophecy [...]

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An E-Reproof for Reformed (or Not Reformed) Cessationists

November 8, 2005

If I may borrow some my of dear friend’s bandwidth and storage space, I wanted to humbly use my posting privilege here to point you all to a ever so slight emotional eruption I had concerning the current debate/discussion over charismatics and charismaniacs. I’m deeply concerned by the prevalent attitude among many of my reformed [...]

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Round one of the great blogger charismatic cessationist debate

November 8, 2005

In a post entitled Fight, fight Theophillis says : “Sort of. Adrian Warnock and Pyromaniac are Spurgeon-bashing each other. “ Meanwhile Paul Huxley isnt impressed yet : What do I have to add? Well it seems that most of the blogging so far has been over whether Spurgeon was charismatic. Or a tug of war [...]

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Spurgeon: a forerunner of the moderate charismatic?

November 8, 2005

PyroManiac has served us well and honestly by providing quotes which show Spurgeons view of impressions. The balance he brings is fantastic. All of the quotes are worth reading, but here are some that stand out to me: ‘A Well-Ordered Life’ (sermon #878): Some, I know, fall into a very vicious habit, which habit they [...]

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GOD OR NOT : atheists and christians interact about proof

November 7, 2005

The only God or Not Carnival is up, and I have had some great comments from some of the atheist readers who no doubt wouldnt usually read my blog. For those of us who want to discuss and share our faith this is a fantastic opportunity which doesnt stop now- one of the posts has [...]

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Here’s praying that the charismatic vs cessationist debate will enhance our Blogging community

November 7, 2005

Blogging is a format that permits the formation of community that crosses the boundaries we feel in the real world. The so-called on coming storm of the cessationist vs charismatic debate in some ways proves it. For, whilst I think Rob somewhat overstates his point, he is I hope and pray correct in his prediction. [...]

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Blogotional joins the fray and comes down against the cessationist view

November 6, 2005

Go for it Blogotional: I understand that there are important, very important issues surrounding the gifts, but I for the life of me do not understand cessasionism. It seems to me that cessasionism is completely antithetical to scripture. Why would Paul spend so much writing on how to manage the charismata in I Corintians 12-14 [...]

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Forgiveness and a tale of modern prophetic insight

November 6, 2005

My friend and pastor Tope is a good charismatic preacher. This morning as part of his sermon on forgiveness he told a story of how God spoke to him about a woman’s past. There are so many examples I am aware of from my experience of God genuinely speaking today that I am fully convinced [...]

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Rememember, remember the fifth of November – Guy Fwkes Night

November 6, 2005

Remember, remember the fifth of November,gunpowder, treason and plot,I see no reason why gunpowder treasonshould ever be forgot.Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,’twas his intentto blow up the King and the Parliament.Three score barrels of powder below,Poor old England to overthrow:By God’s providence he was catch’dWith a dark lantern and burning match.Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the [...]

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