Josho,
Hello, Josho I do not think we have interacted before. As you might suspect I would be identified as one who would be known as a cessationist.
Let's take a look and see where we can and do agree, then see where we differ.
In the OP. You said this:
To the cessationists it's time to believe in the supernatural.
Cessationists do believe in the supernatural. God is supernatural, saving faith is supernatural. We also believe what God says what he will and will not do.
Josho....what is your understanding of the position of the cessationist?
Okay then, so how can you preach a living Gospel, if you believe that miracles from Jesus have ceased?
Josho, We are to establish the truth of God by the preaching and teaching of scripture. Scripture us the living word of God;
Heb4:12
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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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For the word of God is living and effective
gar ho logos ho theos zaō kai energēs
Why should people practicing witchcraft have more power than Christians?
They do not have more power.
Don't you think they would get more people converted to witchcraft, if Christians didn't believe in the power of God?
Not at all. Salvation is of the Lord Josho. God is going to seek and save every person He has purposed to save. Not one person that Jesus came to save will be lost.
There is a reason why many people have turned into the new age, witchcraft spiritual direction.
Yes.
Paul tells us about the root of such sins;
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
That's a reason why the world needs to see the power of God, so they won't turn to the wrong spiritual direction, so that they won't chase after other spirits that are not of God.
Josho, I understand why you might suggest these things but in time I think I can show from scripture another point of view that you might not have heard correctly presented.
If we agree that would be fine, and if we do not agree at least you will understand why the historic church has believed.
The world needs to see the Holy Spirit at work in the lives of Christians. It will help many turn to God.
Yes, here we agree.
2 Corinthians 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;