A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance
Table of Contents
1 Prophecy Today?
2 Tongues Today?
3 Revelation Today?
4 Current Advocacy of the Continuation of Revelation
5 Conclusion
Selected Quotes
- “By speaking in tongues a person was delivering the very Word of God, infallible and inerrant in all its parts.” (34)
- “All gifts of the Spirit were for the benefit of Christ’s church. A ‘gift’ in the New Testament was bestowed on an individual so that he might provide a blessing for the people of God.” (39-40)
- “Revelation instead is a means to an end. It is the way by which the eternal God makes himself known to sinful men who are hopelessly lost apart from his Son the Lord Jesus Christ.” (57)
- “God’s ‘final word’ to his people is found in Jesus Christ and in the inspired revelation of his person and work as preserved in the old and new covenant Scriptures.” (85-86)
- “Why should a person be willing to risk supplanting the certainty of Scripture for the ambiguity of fallible prophetic utterances? Why would anyone be open to the possibility of surrendering his freedom of conscience in favor of subjugating himself to a supposed word from the Lord?” (105)
- “Prophecy continues in Acts to be an utterance with full divine authority. It was not an erroneous reporting of what a person thinks God might have said to him.” (126)
- “No adequate basis may be found in the documents of the new covenant that would sanction a special kind of ‘prophecy’ in the worship services of the church that originates in a revelation from God but is mixed with error as it is delivered.” (132)
- “In sum, great benefits come to God’s people if they are willing to take seriously the fact that the ‘final revelation’ has come in the Christ of the Scriptures. Far from hindering enthusiasm and a sense of the immediacy of God’s presence in their midst, faith in the sufficiency of Scripture will move them to serve him with the full vigor of their beings.” (149)
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THE FINAL WORD: A BIBLICAL RESPONSE TO THE CASE FOR TONGUES AND PROPHECY TODAY, by O. Palmer Robertson