Lee, Francis Nigel. Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles—What and When and Why? http://www.dr-fnlee.org/docs8/
Corrections for Anglicostals, TBN, Alpha, Charismatics, Mr. (Canterbury) Welby, Montanists and their Kinfolk : Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) F.N. Lee. Costals aggressively pushed themselves forward; the pushback is long overdue and is undertaken.
Proverbs 12.1: “Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.”
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 rebukes from F. Nigel Lee:
19. Dabney: miracles were rare; supernatural; and attested God's messages
The view of the great Southern Presbyterian Church in its heyday, was essentially the same. Rev. Professor Dr. R.L. Dabney's Lectures in Systematic Theology boldly declared:41
"The prime end for which God has introduced miracles, [is] to be attestations to man of God's messages....It is the glory of the true miracle, that the more fully it is comprehended the more certainly it would be a smeion" alias a sign -- and indeed such a one as to attest "God's messages alias His words.
"A miracle," explained Dabney by way of definition, "is a phenomenal effect above all the powers of nature, properly the result of supernatural power -- i.e., of God's immediate power which He has not regularly put into any second causes lower or higher.... Miracles are not anarchical infractions of nature's order....Every miracle was wrought in strict conformity with God's decree. But this is in God: the natural law is impressed on the nature of second causes."
Miracles, Dabney further clarified (in his work Discussions: Evangelical and Theological), are all past tense. "We are all in substance agreed," he insisted, 42 "that a miracle was such a manifest suspension of the laws of nature -- as only God can work. Miracles were usually rare in their times. For, had they become customary, their end would have been disappointed...."While the Christian miracles are thus proved to be entirely credible, we have no need to claim that God now answers prayer by miracle. The doctrine of the Bible is that He answers prayers for spiritual good by grace in the hearts of men, and for natural good by that perpetual and special providence through which He regulates the working of every second cause in accordance with its natural law."
Corrections for Anglicostals, TBN, Alpha, Charismatics, Mr. (Canterbury) Welby, Montanists and their Kinfolk : Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) F.N. Lee. Costals aggressively pushed themselves forward; the pushback is long overdue and is undertaken.
Proverbs 12.1: “Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.”
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 rebukes from F. Nigel Lee:
19. Dabney: miracles were rare; supernatural; and attested God's messages
The view of the great Southern Presbyterian Church in its heyday, was essentially the same. Rev. Professor Dr. R.L. Dabney's Lectures in Systematic Theology boldly declared:41
"The prime end for which God has introduced miracles, [is] to be attestations to man of God's messages....It is the glory of the true miracle, that the more fully it is comprehended the more certainly it would be a smeion" alias a sign -- and indeed such a one as to attest "God's messages alias His words.
"A miracle," explained Dabney by way of definition, "is a phenomenal effect above all the powers of nature, properly the result of supernatural power -- i.e., of God's immediate power which He has not regularly put into any second causes lower or higher.... Miracles are not anarchical infractions of nature's order....Every miracle was wrought in strict conformity with God's decree. But this is in God: the natural law is impressed on the nature of second causes."
Miracles, Dabney further clarified (in his work Discussions: Evangelical and Theological), are all past tense. "We are all in substance agreed," he insisted, 42 "that a miracle was such a manifest suspension of the laws of nature -- as only God can work. Miracles were usually rare in their times. For, had they become customary, their end would have been disappointed...."While the Christian miracles are thus proved to be entirely credible, we have no need to claim that God now answers prayer by miracle. The doctrine of the Bible is that He answers prayers for spiritual good by grace in the hearts of men, and for natural good by that perpetual and special providence through which He regulates the working of every second cause in accordance with its natural law."
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