Sunday 31 August 2014

Cessationism and Reformed Doctrine

The doctrine of cessationism, held by many of the Reformed, is a contradiction of a number of their own Reformed doctrines.

It denies the continuity of the Covenants - for the gifts of knowledge, wisdom, prophecy, faith, healings, miracles and the discerning of spirits are part of the terms of a number of the Biblical covenants.

It also denies Sola Scriptura - for it has no clear basis in Scripture; and it implies that parts of the New Testament instructions are no longer valid for the present-day Church, and relies on extra-Biblical authorities for the up-to-date instructions which supposedly replace the now outdated Biblical instructions. It founds the present-day Church not solely on the foundation of the Apostles, but on the foundation of the so-called fathers of the Reformation. 

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