One of
my concerns about some hardline cessationists is the way their scepticism
towards modern miracles implicitly casts doubt on Biblical miracles. If a
cessationist automatically and invariably greets every reported miracle in
modern times with the same debunking mentality as James Randi or Michael
Shermer, then why assume biblical witnesses are somehow more believable? It
seems arbitrary to draw a bright red line between the total credibility of
biblical witnesses and the total incredibility of modern witnesses.
Now, some cessationists like
Jack Cottrell and Francis Nigel Lee do make allowance for modern miracles, but
with a significant caveat: they classify all modern miracles as demonic.
This creates an odd
asymmetry. During the church age, the Devil is free to perform miracles while
the Holy Spirit is disarmed.
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