You are basing doctrine on your signs as wonders ( false source of unseen faith) and not prophecy the true source of faith as it is written .
The thing is, I back up the doctrines I write about with specific scriptures that support them. You string religious-sounding phrases together and use phrases from scripture out of context. If your writings are comprehensible, it is often the case that they display that you misunderstand what a passage is saying. You have even gotten comments that demonstrate that fellow cessationists see this in your posts.
When we accredit the unseen work or power of the gospel to the hands or presence of the apostles .
On this forum, I think you are jousting against windmills. I do not see anything about the apostles having some personal power or holiness, at least not among the continuationists in this forum. Some cessationists seem to lean a bit in that direction. God's grace worked through the apostles to do miracles and such. And the Bible does use 'apostles' in a sense that does not include all believers. I know of no verse where it applies to all believers, though believers assigned a particular task, like delivering funds, could be apostles of the church that sent them as was the case in II Corinthians.
Then it exposes the sign and wonders seekers, self edifiers . Making gods in the likeness of men (corrupted creatures) It is a sign the apostles would have nothing to do with .Blasphemy the abomination of desolation.
Are you accusing me of idolatry, blasphemy, and the abomination of desolation because I believe the teaching of the apostles for the church in passage like I Corinthians 12 are still true and you do not (or do not understand them)?
Removing the unseen work of God that gave the person the faith to leap and declare he heard the voice of God working in him to both will and do the god pleasure of God.
The leap of faith concept comes from Kierkegaard as I recall. But those who see signs and wonders still have to believe the word just like those who don't have to. Seeing signs and wonders and then believing is not an unbiblical thing because there are many examples of it in the gospels and in Acts. Your jousting against something Biblical hear, throwing around Biblical phrases to argue against a Biblical concept.
Not the good pleasure of the apostles. Adding meaning to the word apostle clearly shows it destroyed the intent of the author .
We can see what apostles means from seeing how the term is used in scripture. I Corinthians does not teach that all are apostles.
I Corinthians 12
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
They say this can also be translated 'Not all are apostles, are they?' The implied answer is 'no.' And prophets and speakers in tongues are treated as different categories. Prophecy and speaking in tongues are treated as different gifts and contrasted with each other in I Corinthians 14:5
I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
But your interpretation seems to rest, based on the bits of meaning I can scrape from your post, on the idea that they are the same thing. Your interpretations are convoluted and confused. What does this chapter say about that?
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
You should humble yourself and realize you are not an expert on these things, pray and seek God for wisdom, in faith without doubting, so that you can understand the scriptures when you read.
And there they preached the
gospel. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of menAnd they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,Acts14:7-14
They did not say bow down to the perceived work of their hands as if God was served by human hands in any way shape or form to begin with
If anyone tries to sacrifice to a Christian who operates in the gifts, he and/or other Christians present should correct them. Who is worshipping Christian miracle workers now?
..it an evil generation that seeks after a sign .Believers seek after prophecy the one source of Christian faith .
Let's get it right. Jesus said a wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, but no sign shall be given unto it but the sign of the prophet Jonah. But He said to the disciples that ye are all clean, but not all of them, for He knew who would betray him.
His apostles asked Him for the sign of His coming and He answered them. They later prayed for God to stretch for His hand to do signs and wonders and God answered them as well.
In the passage you quote, the pagans were literally trying to sacrifice to the apostles and the apostles corrected them and managed to prevent it from happening. This is not a passage to be used as a weapon against those who believe in biblical miracles and gifts used in a Biblical way.
