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Cessationist

  • 2023
  • 1h 53m
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5.0/10
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Cessationist (2023)
Are the Charismatic gifts real? Speaking in tongues? Prophesying? Healing? Raising the dead? Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians believe they are participating in miracles. Are these miracles real, or have the miraculous gifts ceased?
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Are the Charismatic gifts real? Speaking in tongues? Prophesying? Healing? Raising the dead? Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians believe they are participating in miracles. Are these mira... Read allAre the Charismatic gifts real? Speaking in tongues? Prophesying? Healing? Raising the dead? Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians believe they are participating in miracles. Are these miracles real, or have the miraculous gifts ceased?Are the Charismatic gifts real? Speaking in tongues? Prophesying? Healing? Raising the dead? Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians believe they are participating in miracles. Are these miracles real, or have the miraculous gifts ceased?

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    • Les Lanphere
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    • David Lovi
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    • Joel Beeke
    • Justin Peters
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    • Director
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      • David Lovi
    • Stars
      • Steven J. Lawson
      • Joel Beeke
      • Justin Peters
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    4cchenders40

    A Mixed Bag

    Rightly condemns false teachers, faith healers and the like. Heretics like Kenneth Copeland, Hinn, Bakker and so on.

    But strings clips of godly men who are open to gifts like Sam Storms, Carson, John Piper, and others along with them but ate not faith healers or false teachers. It is a manipulative tactic to make these men look guilty by association. This documentary was not done in good faith toward other faithful men. Yes please condemn faith healers but don't smear godly men in your own camp (reformed). I am shocked that this exists. There is no hoping snd believing all things here.

    They also constantly change arguments, show partial verse quotes, and ignore key texts. Make arguments from theoretical implications of texts, and experience.

    Very disappointed with this documentary.
    10rosesaphira

    Sola Scriptura > personal revelation

    If you're a born again believer and you're unsure how to back up your belief that the gifts of healing, prophecy, and tongues has ended, this movie is a wonderful resource! Wonderfully filmed and I love that they take you to the scripture. The history behind the charismatic movement is so revealing and it exposes the deceitfulness and danger of believing that God gives man the power to heal in this currant age. The mental gymnastics (misusing scripture) they have to do to make people believe that the gift of speaking in tongues is still around is crazy. So many people grow up in the charismatic word of faith movement that they don't even know anything different. I hope this documentary reaches the right people and will give those who believe in the truth to give a defense.

    The word of God is sufficient for everything. No new revelation is needed.
    1lisaempoweredwellness

    Just an attack against beliefs they don't have.

    Someone has an agenda. I have not, nor ever will be part of the charismatic movement but never would I attack them the way this movie does. From a Christian standpoint a) they take biblical references out of context. Matthew was very much talking to a certain group of people at that time, Paul spoke those words but in context that looks much different than what is depicted here and easily seen by my 14 year old when we took the movie scriptural clips and read the whole context. Why would we as Christians support attacking vs teaching, leading to Christ and honoring/respecting his chosen?

    People are free to believe all this. I'm not saying they can't. But when you provide information like this, against a group of believing Christians, and then take things out of context it's hard not to see the irony in what you are doing vs what is truth.

    Watch the movie, go read the context of the scripture they are giving. Also note they reference things "not happening" but don't take into account this isn't the main theme of the Bible, there are a LOT of things not placed in there due to the irrelevance to the main subject/theme of the Bible. Jesus didn't heal everyone that came to him and not all that were healed were documented. That goes for all the things the apostles and beyond did. Not all was documented there either. Not relevant for salvation and eternal life. So to take that and dramatically use it to prove some point is making up stuff to prove things God doesn't even deem important to scripture.

    What if these same people spent time going out and spending time with these pastors and people that they feel are being misled and just taught them the word and left all this out? Guarantee they could spend years without even getting to this subject and teach them how to respect the gifts and beyond.
    10kubrick4277

    The 1-Star Reviewers Don't Understand The Bible

    This documentary film takes the Bible and explains the context for the verses that continuationists use to claim that spiritual gifts and prophecies are still occurring to this day. The cessationist viewpoint is the only way to rightly understand that A) there are no living Apostles, B) the spiritual gifts and prophecies ceased after 1 Corinthians, and C) anyone who is claiming that A & B are not true have AWFUL Hermeneutics and are making a mockery of God by claiming that the Holy Spirit is working through them.

    And tongues, by the way, means discernible language. It's an actual dialect, not gibberish that someone claims is a real language. They're fooling themselves and weak-minded individuals who aren't looking for God, but rather to have their infirmities taken away from them. That's not what God and the Bible is about. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an apostate. Period. Full stop.
    10dougjpeterson

    Very accurate

    I spent many years in the new apostolic Reformation and the Uber charismatic circles and this was very well done. There are certain people who want to protect these heretics displayed in the movie. I'm not sure why but this movie was very accurate and well done. I know that there are certain individuals that marked it negatively and didn't see it only because they are trying to spread misinformation. It's unfortunate but I recommend watching it. If you are someone who loves God and loves his word then you will definitely love this movie. I would suggest praying before you watch it. Read every scripture in context that is a brought up and pray after you will see for yourself that this is a great movie.

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      • September 21, 2023 (United States)
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