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WHAT WERE THE “TRADITIONS” THE THESSALONIANS WERE TO STAND FIRM AND HOLD TO?

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“So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter” (2Th 2:15)   Should Protestants accept that the apostles, like Paul, gave unwritten traditions that are equal to scripture, that we must stand firm and hold to? What are the traditions …

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The Cessation of the “Doxa” (gift) of Apostles and the Cessation of the “Charismata” (gifts) today

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In this article, I want to respond to a common but what might seem at first to be a somewhat peripheral part of a popular cessationist argument. But as we will see it is foundational for the so-called Cascade Argument as well as arguing for a fundamental distinction between the apostolic era and our own …

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