Dr Paul Allen

Dr Andreas Kostenberger argues that before the Bible was written, the Holy Spirit authenticated the Apostles' teaching with signs. He then states that once the Bible canon was closed, the scriptures became the abiding authoritative norm for all believers. The need for signs and wonders ceased, because any such additional miracles would only distract from the uniqueness of the person and work of Jesus, and the apostles' role as the foundation of the church, along with the prophets "With the writing of the New Testament documents and the closing of the biblical canon, the need for miracles ceased."   Andreas Kostenberger My Response:  No—there is no explicit biblical teaching that miracles ceased once the canon was closed. That claim comes from a theological inference , not a statement of Scripture. Below is a careful, fair explanation. 1. What the cessationist argument actually says Classical cessationism argues that signs and wonders had a specific, temporary fu...

It’s safe to say that the greatest mission ever accomplished, in the history of the world, is that which was accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ in the redemption of His people from sin. But the second most important act of redemption ever accomplished in history, and the second most difficult mission ever given by God to a human being was the mission God gave to Moses. Most Christians are so familiar with the story that they miss the existential agony that Moses went through as the enormity of the task that God set before him struck his consciousness. After God had revealed to Moses His sacred name, He then said: Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, “The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, ‘I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt, and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzite...