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[MyRescueKittehRocks]

I put this one up in DC's so I'm gonna shoot. What are your thoughts on "The Gifts" (Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12-14) are you cessationist or continualist?

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Are you a virgin and, if so, what are you reasons to maintain that pitiful state of affairs?

How is that a pitiful state of affairs Kal?

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

I put this one up in DC's so I'm gonna shoot. What are your thoughts on "The Gifts" (Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12-14) are you cessationist or continualist?

The church's official position is continualist (as evidenced by numbers 17 and 18 in the Fundamental Beliefs), but I take more of a moderate view.  While I certainly lean more toward continualism (why would the Apostolic/spiritual gifts cease with the Apostles?), I don't generally buy into the claims of miracles that many Pentecostal denominations make.  I also believe that they have changed over the centuries.  While I don't believe that most Christians today heal the sick, cast out demons, or raise the dead in the same manner as Jesus and the Apostles, I do believe that we use the gifts by our words and deeds.  This would apply to prophecy: while I don't believe that prophets exist today like the type seen in Bible times, various people have served as prophets throughout the Christian era by their teaching.  I don't consider Ellen White to be a prophet in the same sense as the biblical prophets, but she was a prophet in the sense that she was a good teacher who showed her faith by her life and teaching.  The same would apply to Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Rick Warren, Mother Teresa, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope John Paul, etc.

I have my my own skepticism over Warren but the other specific names I can see your view. Would you put David Wilkerson or Leonard Ravenhill in this list?

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Are you a virgin and, if so, what are you reasons to maintain that pitiful state of affairs?

Simple.  Read Exodus 20:14.  I've been able to get along without sex for 21 years

Stop using the Bible to cover up your failure as a man.

He's not using the Bible to cover up anything Kal. He's standing upon it aa a firm foundation to build his life.