Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, December 2, 2013

Schooling Montanists: Corrections from Francis Nigel Lee


Lee, Francis Nigel. Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles—What and When and Why? http://www.dr-fnlee.org/docs8/mapm/mapm.pdf. Accessed 30 Sept 2013.

Schooling Anglicostals, TBN, Charismatics, Montanists and Kin. Costals aggressively pushed themselves forward with global marketeering; a pushback is long overdue.

Proverbs 12.1: “Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.”

A theological study about the nature of miracles and their cessation at inscripturation but the continuation of pseudo-miracles according to revealed religion from the fall of the first Adam till the second coming of the Second Adam.)

And now, for reproofs from F. Nigel Lee:

21. B.B. Warfield: miracles were objective and supernatural

Rev. Professor Dr. B.B. Warfield is 'notorious' for his view that all miracles ceased
during the apostolic age. That is the gist of his famous book, Counterfeit Miracles.44 Yet even there, he stoutly defended the reality of miracles -- against those who deny that they ever occurred.

Less well-known is Warfield's essay The Question of Miracles. There, he argued: 45
"The question as to miracles is not precisely the question of the supernatural. There are modes of the supernatural that are not miracles. There is the subjective supernatural...."[Yet] miracles are objective supernatural occurrences in the external world.... Their actual occurrence is a matter of experience, and is a proper subject for testimony."

Since the inscripturating of the final book of the Bible, is the last miracle which has ever occurred -- there is no need to give any 'testimony' at all (and certainly never to claim any similar kind of authority) for any subsequent remarkable events such as immediate healings etc. For whatever the latter are, they are certainly not miracles.46

Warfield rejected the occurrence of any miracle as such, ever since the apostolic age.47 He assessed all so-called post-apostolic miracles -- to be pseudo-miracles.48

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