Comments on: Cessationism and the last days http://www.4-14.org.uk/cessationism-and-the-last-days …Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves… Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Mark Lauterbach http://www.4-14.org.uk/cessationism-and-the-last-days#comment-9 Mark Lauterbach Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:03:24 +0000 http://www.4-14.org.uk/?p=25#comment-9 Excellent comments -- thanks for that. It helps me refine my thought. Realized eschatology is NOT the view that we have a large taste of the future glory -- Romans 8 is clear on that. But it insists that the gift of the Spirit is the down payment -- and that there are aspects of that new age we do enjoy -- certainly the most obvious is our present standing with God. I died and my life is hidden with Christ in God. I have stood before his final judgment seat and am declared righteous. My main point was that cessationism ends up with a focus on the wrong transition. If we taste 3% of the future age, then this entire age is such a time and not just the beginning. Excellent comments — thanks for that. It helps me refine my thought.

Realized eschatology is NOT the view that we have a large taste of the future glory — Romans 8 is clear on that. But it insists that the gift of the Spirit is the down payment — and that there are aspects of that new age we do enjoy — certainly the most obvious is our present standing with God. I died and my life is hidden with Christ in God. I have stood before his final judgment seat and am declared righteous.

My main point was that cessationism ends up with a focus on the wrong transition. If we taste 3% of the future age, then this entire age is such a time and not just the beginning.

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