"The gifts of the Spirit, including healing, were withdrawn after the apostolic age."
How it sounds in your head: First Corinthians 13 says when the perfect comes, gifts will cease. The perfect is the complete Bible. So tongues, healings, prophecy—all that stopped when we got the full Scripture. Pursuing those gifts now is pursuing something God already retired.
"So that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ."
-- 1 Corinthians 1:7Source: Cessationist interpretation of Scripture used to explain away current powerlessness as theological.
She's heard seminary-educated people explain this interpretation convincingly, making it sound scholarly and biblically sound. It explains why her church doesn't see miracles without making God look weak—He just chose to stop.
Philip the evangelist had four unmarried daughters who ALL prophesied—not apostles, not men, not in the initial apostolic age but years later when the church was established. Young women still moving in supernatural gifts long after Pentecost, proving gifts didn't stop.
I REFUSE the lie that spiritual gifts were withdrawn. IT IS WRITTEN: 1 Corinthians 1:7 - I come short in NO gift while eagerly waiting for Jesus' return. The gifts operate until He comes back, not until theology says they stop. I am Abraham's seed under the BARAK blessing where God moves supernaturally. IT IS WRITTEN: Mark 16:17 - These signs FOLLOW those who believe. Present tense. Ongoing. I move in ALL spiritual gifts including healing because Jesus hasn't returned yet and the commission hasn't been revoked.
Your Father didn't withdraw His gifts like a parent taking away toys—He poured them out until Jesus returns, which hasn't happened yet. While professors debate cessation dates, He's ready to fill you with the same prophetic spirit that rested on Philip's four ordinary daughters who prophesied in their household.