Tom Schreiner and Sam Storms have both published essays this morning
at The Gospel Coalition discussing whether the miraculous gifts are
still in operation today. Tom Schreiner argues the cessationist
position–that miraculous gifts have ceased. Storms argues the
continuationist postion–that prophecy, tongues, and the rest continue. I
think both essays have a constructive tone even as they
straightfowardly disagree with one another.
The essays are too short to cover the issues exhaustively.
Nevertheless, I think that Schreiner has the stronger argument. For me
anyway, the arguments for the continuationist position continue to fall
short biblically. At the end of the day, this all comes down to what the
Bible teaches, and on that point cessationists and continuationists are
still at loggerheads. In any case, I’ll leave it to you to read their
essays and form your own opinion. For a longer for argument in favor of
the cessationist position, I recommend Dick Gaffin’s classic work Perspectives on Pentecost. HT: Denny Burk
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