Covenant Reformed News – October 2022 • Volume XIX, Issue 6
This article defends the Reformed cessationist position that miracles were restricted to the apostolic age, primarily performed by the apostles themselves rather than ordinary believers. The author uses detailed exegesis of Acts to argue against Pentecostal and Charismatic claims of ongoing miracle-working gifts in the modern church, establishing biblical and theological boundaries around extraordinary divine intervention.
The Workers of Miracles Who are the workers of miracles after Christ’s incarnation, atoning sacrifice on the cross and ascension into heaven? The biblical and Reformed answer is, “The apostles and a few others, and that only in the apostolic age.” However, Pentecostals and Charismatics would respond, “The apostles and many others in the apostolic age, and many since then.” Many renewalists claim that this includes apostles and prophets in the 1,900+ years since the deaths of the 12 apostles...