Maybe. But there's occasionally some good stuff, too : )
Not enough... that's a strange way to put it. I suppose I could be happy enough without gifts like prophecy; I love the word, and could subsist on it alone forever really. But to say I should go without it when it is a very real part of my life is like saying, "You may like roast beef, but you must only have steak. Both are available to you but only one is healthy." It's a weird thing to say for me. I think it would have been just as weird to the New Testament saints or even the Old Testament ones, because both had prophets in their midst, and God never told them not to listen to the words of the prophets. It's just a strange request.
Yeah, well here is where you should kinda get up to speed. I've had Cessationists in the past try to bait me with this question before, and you can't honestly think an intelligent person is going to fall for this do you? I mean, no offense, but if you are approaching the issue from the iron clad assumption that there are no such thing as modern prophets, you will simply dig up whatever dirt you can find (and even things made up) on whoever I would name, yes? I can go through the entire list of sinners in both the Old and New Testament for you of people you could find dirt on as well, including the Lord Jesus Christ Himself if you were so inclined. It's like the Pharisees, who hated the Lord Jesus Christ, baiting Him with questions about being a winebibber and casting out demons by the power of Satan and a whole list of other things. If their minds are made up already, where is the wisdom in answering?
The sound doctrine of the NT involved the churches operating in supernatural gifts (1 Corinthians 12-14). Unsound doctrine would be teaching a "Christianity" that was divorced from it.
But look, I've been around the block with Cessationists so many times that my head is still spinning, and so I know it would be an utter waste of time for both of us, and I value you as a brother in Christ enough to leave it that your time could and should be spent better elsewhere, and I can most certainly promise you that mine would as well. So let's forego it. We both know it will be a merry go round, and as spiritual grown ups like us know, we should stay off of the kiddie rides as much as possible.
God bless, and hope you don't take offense.
Hidden In Him