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Originally Posted by mvdm  Contact Mid America Reformed Seminary. Dr. Cornel Venema has been giving 4 lecture sessions this April on the topic of pentecostalism, the gifts of the spirits, explaining the cessationist position, the second baptism of the spirit, etc. The last one is tonight, which I will be attending as well. I believe these lectures are made available to the general public, but not sure if it is in mp3 or CD Rom format. |
There is nothing in the WCOF denigrating speaking in tongues. The closest thing is in the worship section saying all prayer uttered in a worship service must be in a known tongue. If there were, it would violate Paul's injunction not to prohibit speaking in tongues.
All the cessationist arguments I have studied have been found wanting. The strongest one, which I used to accept, is that tongues presume to be new revelation, and thus violate a closed canon, until a friend pointed out to me that none of the instances of tongues recorded in the Bible contained any revelatory material.
