False. Other than the Scofield Reference Bible, it has been the most influential book written in America against the validity of the charismatic gifts today. Warfield argues that “these gifts were … distinctively the authentication of the Apostles.… Their function thus confined them to distinctively the Apostolic Church, and they necessarily passed away with it.”1 The notion that the more spectacular spiritual gifts ceased with the apostolic age is now commonly known as cessationism. As I have detailed
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