Samson's Jawbone

  For the first time in this blog's history, I have re-opened a series. It comes after recent conversations with continuationists where my arguments have been rejected. Continuationist claim that cessationists  don't understand the nature of tongues. The debate between continuationist and cessationist almost always goes something like this: Albert (the continuationist) almost always claims that there is no biblical basis for cessationism that it denies God's ability to work miracles. George (the cessationist) points out that the assertion is a negative. A negative is not proof a of positive. If I say, "I say I did not catch a fish," that statement fails to say anything whether there were any fish in the pond, or whether I was even fishing.  An argument that cessationist do not believe something, is not an argument in favor of continuationism. Incidentally, it is a false claim. Cessationist do believe in spiritual gifts, and miracles, they just don't believe th