Thursday, July 5, 2018

Debate: Have the New Testament Charismatic Gifts Ceased?



We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth. (Article of Faith 7)

The following debate, between two Protestants on the question of whether the charismatic gifts continue today:




Michael Brown (Arminian) affirmed the motion, and, to put it nicely, absolutely destroyed Zachariades (Reformed) on this issue. While they both accepted a false a priori assumption (i.e., the belief in the [formal] sufficiency of the Bible [the false doctrine of Sola Scriptura]), Brown soundly revealed, through careful exegesis, that tongues and other gifts were intended to continue after the inscripturation of the New Testament.