Attitude re-adjustments for ACNA-multistreamists, Anglicostals, devotees of saints’ invocations, Lady of Walsingham, TBN, & Pentecostals

Lee, Francis Nigel. Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles—What and When and Why?http://www.dr-fnlee.org/docs8/mapm/mapm.pdf. Accessed 30 Sept 2013.

Attitude re-adjustments for ACNA-multistreamists, Anglicostals, devotees of saints’ invocations, Lady of Walsingham, TBN, Pentecostals, Charismatics, Montanists, the Charisma Mag-Rag and other enthusiasts: Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) F.N. Lee. Costals aggressively pushed themselves forward; the pushback is long overdue and is undertaken.

(And, a special word for ACNA’s catechetical efforts at
Reformation amnesia: http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=18192#.Um_6jIzD9jo)

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:

18. William Shedd: on the role and goal of miracles

Rev. Dr. William G.T. Shedd was sometime Professor of Theology at Union Seminary in New York. He has an instructive chapter on 'Miracles' in his textbook Dogmatic Theology.

Said Shedd:40 "The miracle is an extraordinary act of God. It does not differ from the ordinary course of nature because it requires a greater exertion of Divine power, but because it requires a different exertion of it.

"To cause the sun to rise, and to cause Lazarus to rise, both alike demand Omnipotence.

But the manner in which Omnipotence works in one instance, is unlike the manner in the other...."Whenever the ordinary method by natural means is inadequate to accomplish the Divine purpose in the government of the universe or any part of it, God employs the extraordinary method by miracle.... The miracle occurs only when there is an occasion requiring it.... The miracle is a part of a great whole, which is supernatural: namely, the Person of the Redeemer and the work of redemption...."The Old Testament miracles are connected with the Jehovah-Angel or the redeeming God. Those of the New Testament are connected with the Jehovah-Logos or Jesus Christ...."In the future history of the world, certain events are to be brought about miraculously -- because they cannot be by ordinary physical laws. The resurrection of the bodies of all men, is one of them.

"The sudden dissolution and reconstruction of this material world at the end of the redemptive economy (First Corinthians 15:24 & Matthew 25:31-46), cannot be effected by the present slow and gradual operation of natural laws. There must, therefore, be a miraculous interference [then], similar to that by which the world was first created."

Mr. (Rev.Dr.) John MacArthur, "Strange Fire:" Where are the Evangelicals on Charismania?

Charismatic Lexicon - Part One

H/T to Team Pyro

http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2012/08/charismatic-lexicon-part-one.html

Charismatic lexicon - Part One

by Dan Phillips

In the interests of communication and instruction, and because I'm here to help, I offer this lexicon. I'm calling it Part One because (A) I'm sure there'll be more, because (B) I'm pretty sure readers will supply some great stuff that (C) I will steal, publish here, and claim as my own.

First, then: the term as used by a Biblically-oriented Christian (BibC); then the Leaky Canon Charismatic equivalent (LC²). I paint, as I must, with a broad brush... but not that broad.

BibC: Culmination of millennia of revelation in a completed, wholly sufficient and closed Canon
LC²: Whatever. (Alternate: And then that happened...)

BibC: Feeling.
LC²: The Holy Spirit.

BibC: Hunch.
LC²: The Holy Spirit.

BibC: Silly passing thought.
LC²: The Holy Spirit.

BibC: Impulse, best to be rejected after a bit of wise and critical reflection.
LC: The Holy Spirit.

BibC: Testing by Scripture and rational examination.
LC²: Unbelief.

BibC: Walking in gracious, faith-driven obedience, which definitionally and consciously rests on the written Word alone.
LC²: Deism.


BibC: Living impulsively and irresponsibly, eschewing Biblical analysis and responsible decision-making, and blaming the whole mess on God.
LC²: Moving in the Spirit.


BibC: Undocumented anecdote allegedly done in a corner thousands of miles away and transmitted through the world's longest game of "telephone."
LC²: Proof that "the gifts" continue.

BibC: The undeniable absence of substantiated and globally-accepted claims to revelatory/attesting gifts among the Biblically orthodox from the first century until 1906.
LC²: "The man behind the curtain." (Alternate: "Look! A comet!")

BibC: The undeniable fact that modern instances of substantiated and globally-accepted claims to revelatory/attesting gifts among the Biblically orthodox depends on drastic reinterpretation of Scripture and playing fast and loose with the laws of evidence.
LC: (See above)

BibC: Prophecy is an explicitly Biblically-defined phenomenon in which God gives inerrant, binding, direct revelation to someone and assures that it is communicated as such. It is objectively verifiable.
LC²: Whatever you say it is. Except not verifiable or falsifiable.

BibC: Insisting on redefining the Biblical teaching about and descriptions of revelatory and attesting gifts so as to smuggle pale imitations into a time-frame some twenty centuries after their disappearance.
LC²: Non-negotiable essentials.

BibC: Affirming the all-over-the-Bible teaching of the sovereignty of God in salvation.
LC²: Totally negotiable, relatively minor.

...and one reverse:

LC²: A divine healing that undeniably proves all charismatic claims.
BibC: Answered prayer, God healing -- which all Christians have always confirmed and distinguished from the gift of healing.

THE MONTANIST CRISIS: A KEY TO REFUTING THIRD-WAVE CONCEPTS OF NT PROPHECY



Modern Montanists



http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj14i.pdf

"The following discussion uses quotation marks and also the term “so-called” in reference to these current practices of “tongues” and “prophecy,” because a careful examination of the NT reveals data about the nature and practice of these NT gifts that contrasts with such practices as presently displayed. For instance, an exegetical examination of the biblical phenomenon of tongues in Acts 2:1-13 and 1 Corinthians 12–14 (especially 14:1-19) indicates conclusively that “tongues” were human languages that the speaker had not learned by natural means and not non-cognitive, non-understandable speech that is currently labeled as such. See Normal L. Geisler, “Appendix 5. Were New Testament Tongues Real Languages,”in  Signs and Wonders (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale, 1988) 165-68; Robert G. Gromacki, The Modern Tongues Movement (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1967) 53-68; Thomas R. Edgar, “Tongues: The Nature of the Gift,” in Miraculous Gifts, Are They for Today? (Neptune, N.J.: Loizeaux, 1983) 108-70; Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., “Prophecy and Tongues,” in Perspectives on Pentecost (Phillipsburg, N.J.:Presbyterian and Reformed, 1979) 55-87; Robert L. Thomas, Understanding Spiritual Gifts, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1999 [1978]) 186-91."