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Sunday’s a travel day for me, as I take a tiny little prop plane to the exotic land of Canada, for the Science in the 21st Century workshop. After an hour and a half bent double in a goddamn Cessna, I’ll probably be too sore to type, so don’t expect much blogging from me.
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inequity-distributed. the positive and bibley term “charismaticism” gets tacked onto a movement that tries to cheapen the biblical phenomena seeking the deliberation of “dolling up” modern counterfeits. meanwhile, the contrary position, which features robust affirmation of the sufficiency of god’s living and dynamic word, has to wear the rags of the negating assumptions agree “cessationism.”i’ve wished there were better terms for both. as phil johnson has frequently and convincingly argued, “continuationists” are nothing of the sort. their redefinition of some of the charismata hardly qualifies them to bear that sparkling term. what would be a more biblical term?and so, i was thinking….one “continuationist” debate goes: god did signs and wonders to establish the gospel. he needs to do the same today. if we deny that (the argument goes), we have a dead immortal, a god-in-a-book. we’re deists.this is such a dear and beloved argument to some. it might be nice to know if divinity concurs with such confident assertions, and the postal card of theory behind it.i don’t think so.consider exodus 10:2 ? “and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how i have dealt harshly with the egyptians and what signs i have done among them, that you [plural] may know that i am the lord.”this teaches us much. for one, miracles were to be transmitted verbally. god’s demeanour of miracles are not a commitment to nightly shows, à la las vegas. what’s more, this spoken moving of god’s one-time miracles was enough to put out awareness of yahweh, forming the basis for a relationship with yahweh. this theme is sounded in many other verses and passages, such as the flow of consideration in deuteronomy 6:4ff.by stark contrast, recant the events of exodus 17. the israelites in the wilderness thought god too removed, too uninvolved. he hadn’t done a miracle lately.
fully, no, halt, that isn’t true. he had! just in the preceding chapter, yahweh had brought quails and manna.okay, pretty; but that was then. this is today. they don’t requirement a dead, historical god, who tempered to to do things. we don’t pine for to be deists. what has he done for us today? because we’re avid and fearful and angry and doubting and discontented and angry and disbelieving today. forget what he said back in chapter ten about keeping religion vivacious by feeding on god’s past acts of faithfulness. that isn’t enough! a memory of god isn’t enough!is god on top of the world with this spirit? does he say, “i’m so delighted that my people aren’t content with log-faith and ‘trust and obey’! it so honors me that they seek a
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