Lee, Francis Nigel. Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles—What and When and Why? http://www.dr-fnlee.org/docs8/
Attitude re-adjustments for the ACNA, Anglicostals, TBN, Pentecostals, Charismatics, Montanists, Adrian Warnock, Charisma Mag-Rag, John Piper and other frenzied wildcats from Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) F.N. Lee. Costals aggressively pushed themselves forward; the pushback is long overdue and is undertaken.
A theological study about the nature of miracles and their cessation at inscripturation but the continuation of pseudo-miracles according to revealed religion from the fall of the first Adam till the second coming of the Second Adam.)
And now, for corrections and tough-minded rebukes from F. Nigel Lee:
17. Godet: the purpose and progress of miracles
Rev. Professor Dr. Frederic Louis Godet, the famous French-Swiss Reformed Theologian, wrote the article titled 'Miracles' for the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge during the nineteenth century. Rev. Dr. Godet there asked: 39
"For what purpose, then, were the miracles wrought? Jesus calls them signs. And so they were -- external manifestations destined to make the weaker [human] spirits understand the moral work He had come to accomplish.... Each group of His miracles illustrates a special side of that work of spiritual deliverance which He had come to accomplish.
"But this is not all. When He extends His miraculous power to nature proper (stilling the storm, multiplying the loaves etc.) -- He reveals Himself: not only as the Curer of the moral miseries of humanity, but also as the future Restorer of nature itself....
"The miracles of the Apostles stand in the same relation to those of Jesus, as the miracles of Joshua to those of Moses -- or the miracles of Elisha, to those of Elijah.
They are a continuation and a complement...."No miracles are wrought now.... Miracles serve only as an accompaniment to the work of God for the salvation of the human race. That work was completed by Jesus and His Apostles -- and what is now left to be done, is simply the individual appropriation of God's work. But for that purpose, no miracle is necessary...."In the most ancient epoch of the history of mankind (from Adam to Moses, comprising about 2500 years) -- Biblical history does not record one single miracle, properly speaking....The first miraculous acts in the domain of nature, are the signs given to Moses -- at the moment he entered upon his office.... Then, six or seven centuries elapse, and no miracle occurs; but it re-appears at the moment when the existence of monotheism is seriously threatened by the invasion of the grossest paganism, in the times of Elijah and Elisha.
"Again, two or three centuries roll on without any miracle -- until the period of the Babylonian captivity.... Finally, an interval of four centuries separates this third epoch of miracles from the fourth -- which is also the last; the most striking; and belonging to the full dawn of history -- the epoch of Jesus and His Apostles...."Miracles reconcentrated on certain decisive points, instead of being scattered uniformly over the whole surface of Biblical history.... They do not occur incidentally, at any moment. They belong, as Weiss has said, to a special history; to a superior history which runs through ordinary history from beginning to end -- to the history of salvation."
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