Lee, Francis Nigel. Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles—What and When and Why? http://www.dr-fnlee.org/docs8/
Schooling Anglicostals, TBN, Charismatics, Montanists and Kin. Costals aggressively pushed themselves forward with global marketeering; a pushback is long overdue.
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 reproofs from F. Nigel Lee:
21. B.B. Warfield: miracles were objective and supernatural
Rev. Professor Dr. B.B. Warfield is 'notorious' for his view that all miracles ceased
during the apostolic age. That is the gist of his famous book, Counterfeit Miracles.44 Yet even there, he stoutly defended the reality of miracles -- against those who deny that they ever occurred.
Less well-known is Warfield's essay The Question of Miracles. There, he argued: 45
"The question as to miracles is not precisely the question of the supernatural. There are modes of the supernatural that are not miracles. There is the subjective supernatural...."[Yet] miracles are objective supernatural occurrences in the external world.... Their actual occurrence is a matter of experience, and is a proper subject for testimony."
Since the inscripturating of the final book of the Bible, is the last miracle which has ever occurred -- there is no need to give any 'testimony' at all (and certainly never to claim any similar kind of authority) for any subsequent remarkable events such as immediate healings etc. For whatever the latter are, they are certainly not miracles.46
Warfield rejected the occurrence of any miracle as such, ever since the apostolic age.47 He assessed all so-called post-apostolic miracles -- to be pseudo-miracles.48
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