Lee, Francis Nigel. Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles—What and When and Why? http://www.dr-fnlee.org/docs8/
Attitude Adjustments for Anglicostals, Pentecostals, Charismatics, Montanists 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 reproofs from F. Nigel Lee:
16. A.A. Hodge (continued): miracles are objective and redemptive
"The gospel is not a disclosure of abstract moral or spiritual truths, but rather of a series of objective FACTS constituting the stupendous history of redemption....
Among the most convincing elements of this history, is the witness it bears to the events we call 'MIRACLES.'
The incarnation, the crucifixion, the resurrection, are the very substance of Christianity and its saving power.... These are the central suns of the constellations of miracles recorded in the Bible...."Sporadic, inconsequent 'miracles' could prove nothing -- and would themselves be difficult to prove. But, given a supernatural crisis; a supernatural teacher; and a supernatural doctrine -- MIRACLES are found to be in place like JEWELS on the state-robes of a king.
ALL the great MIRACLES recorded in Scripture, gather around two great foci in the history of REDEMPTION -- the giving of the Law through Moses" (right after the Lord saved His people from oppression in Egypt), "and the life and death of the incarnate God" in and miraculously conjoined to His human nature.
"If God did not carefully CONFINE His powers to the lines of established and known LAWS; if we lived in a world in which MIRACLES instead of being the INFINITE EXCEPTION were the RULE and God were constantly breaking forth with the exercise of supernatural power in unexpected places, and like the wild lightning eluding the most rapid thought as it dashes zig-zag across the sky -- we should find all thought and intelligent action impossible.... The universe would be a chaos, and the community of men a bedlam...."
If Adam had not apostasized, the entire course of human history would have been a NORMAL development in fellowship with God. The central principle of loyalty to God having been preserved intact; the whole moral nature of man would have GROWN healthily; and all his faculties in all their exercises, and all his relations with his fellows, would have been correspondingly normal.
"But since sin introduced rebellion against the supreme authority of God, the human character had been radically corrupted and human society disorganized.... In consequence of this state of facts, the God of Heaven has set up a Kingdom in antagonism to the kingdom of Satan and to all temporal kingdoms organized in Satan's interest; which Kingdom shall never be destroyed but, breaking in pieces all its antagonists, shall stand for ever. This Kingdom of the God of Heaven was introduced immediately after the Fall...."The process by which this Kingdom grows through its successive STAGES toward its ultimate completion can, of course, be very inadequately understood by us. It implies the CEASELESS operation of the mighty power of God working though all the forces and LAWS of nature, and CULMINATING in the supernatural manifestations of grace and of MIRACLE.... The omnipotent Holy Ghost works to the same end, directly and indirectly, in every sphere of nature and of human life....
"This Kingdom from the beginning and in the whole circle of human history -- has been always coming. Its coming has been marked by great EPOCHS -- when NEW revelations and new communications of divine power have been imported, from WITHOUT [alias from the OUTSIDE], into the current of human history. The CHIEFEST of these have been the giving of the Law; the incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and session of the King on the right hand of the Father; and the mission of the Holy Ghost." Thus Rev. Professor Dr. A.A. Hodge.
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