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	Cessationism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Christian theology, cessationism is the view that the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as tongues, prophecy and healing, ceased being practiced early on in Church history.
		Cessationism, however, is a doctrine that is generally perceived to be in retreat even among conservative and Evangelical Christians.
		Cessationism, continuationists would argue, cannot demand a two-level canon: one for the first century and one for the rest of the Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cessationism (1244 words)

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		The central failure of Warfield’s cessationism is the confusion of the sufficiency of revelation, i.e., in the unique historical manifestation of Christ and apostolic doctrine as finally revealed in scripture, with the procedural means of communicating, expressing and applying that revelation, i.e., via the charismata, including gifts of prophecy and miracles.
		Cessationism developed from a complex stew of post-biblical theologies and philosophies that had long been simmering in their polemical cauldron.
		For cessationism to demand the restriction of miracles to approximately the apostolic age, it is crucial first to establish some agreement on how one knows a miracle has appeared or even if Warfield’s concept of miracle is an intelligible notion at all.
	home.regent.edu /ruthven/assets/cessation_charismata.doc (12869 words)

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		His cessationism represents a failure to grasp the biblical portrayal of the eschatological outpouring of the Spirit of prophecy, expressed characteristically in the charismata, which are bestowed until the end of this age by the exalted Christ as manifestations of the advancing Kingdom of God.
		Warfield's evidentialist function for miracles, the foundation for cessationism, is reductionistic and superficial in view of the dominating role for miracles in the biblically formulated, eschatologically conditioned doctrines of pneumatology and the kingdom of God.
		Against cessationism, then, this brief sketch shows the biblical (and divine) impulse to offer the power of the Spirit to all who would respond to it, rather than limit it to a few founders of the Christian community whose status must be enhanced.
	www.abidingplace.org /guest/guest.htm (6662 words)

	Vincent Cheung @ RMIWEB » Blog Archive » Pentecostalism and Cessationism
		By "absolute" cessationism, I refer to the position that God has altogether stopped performing the extraordinary.
		This position claims that all the reasons for which he performed the extraordinary during biblical times are now gone and inapplicable, since the Scripture has been completed and the canon closed.
		One of the several reasons that I reject absolute cessationism is that there are biblically supported reasons other than those cited by the absolute cessationists for God to perform the extraordinary.
	www.vincentcheung.com /2005/05/13/pentecostalism-and-cessationism (820 words)

	A Case for Consistent Cessationism \| The Kingdom Come
		Most Christians have heard the term “cessationism” and understand it to mean that there are no more spiritual “gifts” today, but how we’d like to use it here is to denote not just gifts but also the offices such as apostles and prophets.
		We will continue in part 3 of “A Case for Consistent Cessationism” by looking closer at the general concept of cessation of the offices and how to be consistent we must consider the cessation of all of the so-called five fold ministry.
		In part 5 of “A Case for Consistent Cessationism” we plan to examine the actual role of the first-century elder in comparison to the role which modern day “elders” and “pastors” have taken upon themselves.
	thekingdomcome.com /a_case_for_consistent_cessationism (7737 words)

	Cessationism and the last days at 4:14 christian theology blog
		If classical cessationism underestimates the significance of Pentecost and the age of the Spirit, then this view is in danger of underestimating the significance of the return of Christ.
		My main point was that cessationism ends up with a focus on the wrong transition.
		If we taste 3% of the future age, then this entire age is such a time and not just the beginning.
	www.4-14.org.uk /index.php/archives/25-cessationism-and-the-last-days (1129 words)

	Banner of Truth Trust General Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This neglect may have come about because Edwards bases his case for cessationism far more on his understanding of redemptive history and canon than on his exegesis of disputed Scripture passages.
		I hope to demonstrate that Edwards's position, a more full-orbed understanding of cessationism than has been suspected, has unfortunately been neglected, much to the endangerment of the contemporary evangelical church.
		The depth and breadth of the arguments Edwards has marshalled against restorationism (the belief in the restoration of apostolic sign-gifts such as prophecy) marks out the apogee of cessationism, which is indeed one of the main themes of his writing and a matter of urgent concern for him.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?199 (910 words)

	Wayne Grudem at Challies on the Gift of Prophecy
		I think it is somewhat of a historical aberration that cessationism - that the leaders of the Reformed movement have been cessationist.
		So, I think that, rather than modern reformed cessationism being the historical aberration, it is modern reformed charismaticism that is the aberration, at least when it seeks to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, the unusual into the usual.
		And having said all of that and having gotten my nitpicking out of the way, let me again affirm my deep respect for those on the other side of the issue and my appreciation for their reminders to us that the Holy Spirit is alive and active today.
	theologica.worldmagblog.com /theologica/archives/2006/01/wayne_grudem_at.html (1895 words)

	Cessationism vs Biblicism --- A CWM publication online! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In short, moderate CESSATIONISM believes and teaches that the ministries of apostle and prophet are not valid since the completion of the canon of scripture and that those gifts of the Holy Spirit, which were essential to their function, have ceased.
		To say, as was common among a number of branches of conservative evangelicals several decades ago, that supernaturalism ended with the passing of the original apostles is without any biblical support.
		Cessationism affirms that God in His sovereignty has determined to cause certain things that He gave to the early New Testament church to cease or come to an end.
	www.christian-witness.org /archives/cetf2000/cess62_1.html (4078 words)

	The Boars Head Tavern » Blog Archive »
		Cessationists have been around a lot longer than the modern pentecostal/charismatic movement, so I’m not sure you can say it’s a response to the harm being done by those movements, though many of its modern formulations are.
		There is indeed crazy eisegesis that goes on in the name of cessationism, I agree.
		I think Gaffin does a pretty good job of putting cessationism into a history-of-salvation framework that makes sense, and you can’t do that sort of thing with a simple legalistic moral obligation like teetotalism.
	www.boarsheadtavern.com /archives/2005/12/31/11036905.html (304 words)

	Miscellanies on the Gospel
		But for cessationism that means that it cannot have been real NT prophecy to begin with.
		If cessationism were a central component to 1 Corinthians 12-14 one would expect it to be stated a little clearer somewhere else in the context, which it is not.
		I am appalled at this kind of cessationism which takes a stand on mole hills (as they do also with regard to their requirement that any missionary candidate who has been baptized must have been baptized in a Southern Baptist Church else they are not qualified to serve as an IMB missionary).
	mymiscellanies.blogspot.com /2005/12/theological-pillow-fight-updated.html (14693 words)

	Hip and Thigh
		One of their key lines of argumentation is to say, "There isn't one Bible verse that mentions the word Trinity." Yet, the biblical revelation of the Triune Godhead doesn't stand or fall on the absence of the elusive one Bible verse, but is testified to a proper exegetical understanding of the whole of scripture.
		When one considers the biblical data on gifts within the whole of God's revelation (see again the Robertson post I linked above) a person can easily conclude gifts like tongues and prophecy had a unique place in the Church and once they served their purpose, they were no longer needed and ceased operations.
		Cessationism is a cult, and amount to changing God's words.
	hipandthigh.blogspot.com /2005/12/cessation-of-spiritual-gifts-there-has.html (3078 words)

	Youth Ministry Spot Forums - Cessationism
		You have to be a theologian to screw that up :p.
		But the most obvious part against cessationism is the part that I have emphasized.
		Cessationism is the belief that the gifts of the spirit have ceased.
	www.ymspot.com /forums/printthread.php?t=271 (761 words)

	Charismatic Movement \| Cessationism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Many authors discuss the question of prophecy and the closure of the canon from the standpoint of cessationism.
		When one studies these discussions it soon becomes clear that different people are using the term cessationism in very different ways.
		I was challenged by a friend to read up on cessationism so I have a better understanding from where cessationists are coming.
	www.graceonlinelibrary.org /articles/discussion.asp?id=40\|\|411 (376 words)

	Cessationism
		The doctrine of cessationism is one such false doctrine.
		The church was blessed with the baptism of the Holy Spirit (Yashua's Words from Acts 1) on the day of Pentecost which came to empower believers that they may become vessels for His usage according to His determination to further His kingdom.
		Because the vessel must be a proper vessel to be chosen to be used, in other words, a person who believes in cessationism will not be a candidate of usage since that person rejects the gifts of the Spirit determining that they ceased in the first century.
	www.tpwmi.com /cessationism.html (1725 words)

	Cessationism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Having distinguished between these two positions on cessationism it is fitting that we should seek to evaluate them.
		Perhaps the insights of both viewpoints can be combined in the recognition that the gift allowing some of God's people to do extraordinary works for God at their will has disappeared, but that God may still use human agents to do wondrous works in extraordinary circumstances.
		To sum up, our discussion has shown that the word cessationism is indeed used with many different shades of meaning, and for this reason the word should not be used without careful definitions and qualifications.
	www.graceonlinelibrary.org /etc/printer-friendly.asp?ID=411 (3158 words)

	What is the relationship between preterism and cessationism? - TheologyWeb Campus
		(Cessationism is the belief that miraculous spiritual gifts like speaking in tongues passed away around the end of the apostolic age.)
		I not only studied everything written by Gentry and Bahnsen on the subject of their cessationism, I engaged in extensive personal correspondence with each of them in the late 1980's / early 1990's.
		Neither of them was able to present to me any convincing exegetical basis for the cessationist dogma, which seemed to me to be based not really in the biblical texts themselves, but in presuppositions which they sought to support with anything they could martial for that purpose in the biblical texts.
	www.theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?t=7122 (1316 words)

	Talk:Charismatic movement/Criticism salvage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many protestants who criticize Charismatic groups begin with a doctrine of Cessationism – that all supernaturally-evident gifts of the Holy Spirit (such as tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) ceased at some point in history.
		Two of the principal proponents of Cessationism are John F. MacArthur (author of “Charismatic Chaos”) and Norman Geisler (author of “Signs and Wonders”).
		Most non-cessational Protestants critical of Charismatic groups accuse them of directly violating a Biblical definition of correct usage as found in 1 Corinthians 12-14.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Criticisms_of_Charismatic_and_Pentecostal_belief (1633 words)

	Adrian's Blog: Jack Deere on cessationism
		The doctrine of cessationism did not originate from a careful study of the Scriptures.
		Seemed a bit reactionary against the ugly cessationism he used to be part of (i wonder if the UK really has much of that, the default certainly seems to be charismatic, albeit widely not that reformed)
		His points about cessationism being believed because of experience is very helpful - we're all experiential, and hopefully biblical with it.
	www.adrian.warnock.info /2005/12/jack-deere-on-cessationism_31.htm (1172 words)

	CAMPONTHIS: Cessationism or Non-cessationism: is that even the question?
		Rabbit trails are in abundance with little conclusions given from the sure foundation and context of biblical truth.
		I don't believe that "cessationism or non-cessationism (continuationism)?" is the right question.
		We must recognize that, although the blog world doesn't represent it, there are complicated biblical arguments concerning cessationism and continuationism.
	stevenjcamp.blogspot.com /2006/01/cessationism-or-non-cessationism-is.html (3366 words)

	PyroManiac: Some odds 'n' ends before I lapse into a drug-induced stupor
		In the first place, cessationism was not even an issue I planned to raise in my current series of posts on false prophecy.
		And if cessationism is the main issue in the minds of people who are undecided about whether or not to listen to voices in their heads, I'm willing to argue the point.
		One is Daniel J. Phillips ("'Cessationism': ragged dress for a rich lady"); a second is Dave Ulrick, "The Inscrutable Observer" ("Two tiers of inspiration?"); and the third one is William Dicks ("Hearing God and Moving in the Prophetic: A critique").
	phillipjohnson.blogspot.com /2005/11/some-odds-n-ends-before-i-lapse-into.html (3423 words)

	TheIrvins: Tongue Tied (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cessationism: the view that all extraordinary works of God and miraculous gifts of the Spirit have ceased.
		I never thought of these phrases in terms of "cessationism" or "continuationism" but I can see now how they apply.
		To say that God "spoke to my heart" or that God "moved me" in some way is akin to speaking in tongues or uttering prophecies.
	www.theirvins.com /archives/2005/12/tongue_tied.php (1046 words)

	For those interested only - On Cessationism. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Deere may be correct in that the doctrine of cessationism originates in experience but that does not mean it is not true.
		Experience is the confirming factor in the case of either continuation or cessationism.
		Whatever the case may be Deere raises the issue of putting the doctrine of cessationism to a biblical examination.
	www.antioch.com.sg /cgi-bin/Agora-Pub/get/expressions/169/3.html?inline=-1&admin (1457 words)

	Sharper Iron Forums - Cessationism?
		While discussing the merits of John Piper's writings in another thread (http://www.sharperiron.org/showthre...91andpage=1andpp=10), the subject of cessationism came up.
		As far as 'fundamentalists' believe regarding cessationism, it seems that there may be some dissent as to whether the signs/wonders and revelatory gifts did cease at some point in the past, specifically at the time of the completion of the Biblical canon.
		Secondly, is cessationism a 'fundamental' belief, or is it one in which we can disagree and still remain a fundamentalist?
	www.sharperiron.org /printthread.php?t=1007 (832 words)

	The Controversial Charismata
		The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts, by John F. Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary - A good introduction to the biblical reasoning behind the cessationist belief that some of the spiritual gifts served a temporary purpose and are no longer being given by God.
		Cessationism, by Willem Berends of Reformed Theological College - Berends first provides a history of Protestant cessationism, then notes the difference between strong cessationism (no miracles today) and weak cessationism (no miraculous gifts today).
		The Cessation of the Sign Gifts, by Thomas Edgar of Capital Bible Seminary - While this article focuses on cessationism in general, a good portion of it deals with the issue of the gift of Apostleship.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Atlantis/5068/charismata (834 words)

	Cerulean Sanctum » 2005 » November » 17
		So here's my challenge to those continuationists who insist that the problem of bogus prophecies pales in importance compared to the exegetical issues raised by cessationism: Name one faithful modern prophet whose prognostications are both objectively verifiable and always one-hundred percent accurate.
		If you argue (as most do) that the gifts being practiced today are different in quality from the gifts possessed by the apostles themselves, you are actually arguing for a kind of cessationism yourself.
		If no one can identify a prophet who meets the biblical standard for basic accuracy, the question of cessationism is essentially moot anyway.
	ceruleansanctum.com /2005/11/17 (1473 words)

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