I just read Biola's doctrinal statement (at Biola University - A Private Christian University in Southern California) and was surprised to see that it's not as "hard cessationist" as it used to be.

After the usual language about the extraordinary gifts being used by God to authenticate the biblical writers and their message, there's this: Beyond the foundation era, God, in His sovereignty, may grant any spiritual gift and work miraculously for the benefit of His Church at any time. To me, in this context, this seems to be a significant softening of Biola's historic "hard line" position against the charismatic gifts.

Too bad.

I guess that statement also means that one can't use Biola's doctrinal statement to have Moreland, shall we say, move on, employment-wise...

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Richard T. Zuelch, M.Div
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