The following is an adult Sunday School lesson based out of James 2:1-13 that I taught at my church, Lake Drive Baptist Church, in Milwaukee, WI on July 22th, 2012.
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Tongues | Special Revelation and Conclusion
The following belongs to a series on the continuation or cessation of the miraculous phenomena of tongues-speaking. Read the previous post here.
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Special Revelation and Tongues-Speaking
If no other argument up until this point has been persuasive, this next argument is the most decisive point cessationism has. The argument is as follows: 1) since tongues-speaking is revelatory (1 Cor 14:6, 26)1 and 2) since the canon of scripture (special revelation) is closed, then 3) no tongues utterances can be given in this age. Denying the second premise is dangerous business and places one outside of historical evangelicalism. Consequently, in order to deny this argument continuationists typically deny the first premise by arguing that the revelation given via tongues is different than that of scripture, and therefore, tongues’ continual existence is not inconsistent with a closed canon.2 However, problems surface when such a distinction is made.
Facing Trials with Spiritual Integrity (James 1:2-18)
The following is an adult Sunday School lesson based out of James 1:2-18 that I taught at my church, Lake Drive Baptist Church, in Milwaukee, WI on July 8th, 2012.
Kirk E. Miller 