Cessationism and Tongues

Cessationism and Speaking in Tongues 

©2209 Vincent Cheung

Some people call me a Reformed Charismatic.1 I remember one person who criticized me on the basis that the term is a misnomer and an oxymoron. He thought that a Reformed person could not at the same time be a Charismatic, and a Charismatic could not possibly deserve to be called Reformed.

Cessationism Contradicts Predestination

Cessationism Incompatible With Predestination
　
The foundation doctrine of Calvinism is the doctrine of Predestination…the idea that all things exist because God willed them to exist, just the way that they are, and that He did this in some sort of eternal decree before anything at all existed except Him (1Cor.2:7). Predestination is the cardinal point or primordial principle of the theological system known as the Reformed Faith. Before the foundation of the world, God devised a plan which encompassed all things…all beings, all events, and all universes (Eph. 1:4,9; 3:11; Isa. 14:24-27; 46:10-11; 2Tim.1:9). It is His Sovereign government of everything (Deut. 10:14; Acts 2:23; 4:28; 17:26; Rom.8:28-30), and it is beyond the comprehension of everyone, except for God Himself.