Tuesday, September 02, 2008

for reformed cessationists only

Dan Edelen asks this interesting question to those odd creatures I'll refer to as Reformed Cessationists.

How is it that so many Christians in the West willingly endorse the idea that the Gospel of Grace lay fallow for 1,000 years until “rediscovered” by the Reformation generation (Hus, Luther, Calvin), yet they find it incomprehensible that any other major component of God’s word might lie fallow longer and only find its rediscovery in our generation?

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2 comments:

dle said...

Rick,

Thanks for the link!

I don't think the question only pertains to Reformed cessationists. I think it works for any group of Christians that discounts the possibility that living the True Faith can't find some kind of renaissance in our time. Be it a re-emphasis on a way of living the Gospel that suddenly strikes a chord in people or a deeper understanding of an old truth too long neglected, we are no less capable of radical understanding than was Hus, Luther, or Calvin.

To think otherwise is to live a dead faith that reached its most vital point and has been tottering toward geezerhood ever since. Truthfully, that's a terribly low view of God and of man.It also smacks of unteachability because it takes the stance "I know what I know and that's it." Such people have reached Christian perfection, at least in their own minds. They do not suffer the great unwashed (read: the inquisitive) gladly.

What a shame.

ricki said...

Dan - of course you are right but I still like poking at my cessationist friends.

:-)

reftagger