Ceased Doesn't Mean Deceased
... Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in divers manners to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His church; and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which maketh the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now ceased. What a statement! It pleased the Lord to reveal Himself to us! Amen! But sadly, as Solomon said, "Men have sought out many devices." Within the first paragraph we already see what is a hotly contested subject. In short, the position posited here is that of what is commonly known as cessationism, or to say that the miraculous and revelatory gifts of the Spirit no longer exist today. Even amongst modern Calvinistic folk the vie...