Do Cessationists reject Lee Strobel and Craig S. Keener's books collating modern-day miracle reports?
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Apologies for the slightly sarcastic tone of this answer but I suppose the opinion of a Cessationist would lean towards sarcasm. The question in my mind is basically "What do doubters think about collections of stories that people can make?" (I personally never heard of these books).
The simple answer is they are stories that the average doubter has not encountered directly and has therefore no real opinion or necessarily even an interest (or even hold their attention span). It is very similar to UFO stories. They may seem interesting if one happens to hear about one - but a doubter just brushes it off as some unexplained story. Part of the problem is doubters need a certain amount of independent proof to believe in something. Independent proof often requires a discussion with the person making the claim. People often discern a persons story by their body language when asked specific questions, more than what they say anyway.
So I think the answer is basically ambivalence because it would be nice to encounter a true miracle but many feel we haven't. In the same way, many don't believe in UFOs (as in the alien lifeform version) because they always waste their time 'flying around' and don't land and start eating people. When they encounter something directly they might believe something about it. It's not a full rejection. They just have no interest to hear about some light 'hovering' somewhere over the distance against the laws of gravity.
I don't think Cessationist beliefs reject the possibility of miracles because even conversion is a kind of miracle. So it's not about feeling insecure about claims and rejecting them without reason outright. It's more about explaining why there are not a collection of DVDs showing missing limbs being extended before our eyes by a modern Apostle Paul, or why our family members get cancer and die. It's explaining why we observe, what we observe, and still have faith in the miracles of the Bible.
Also it's not about what is possible in the future during some great awakening of Christianity either, if such a thing occurs. It's just about history and what we see around us, while also holding fast to the word of God. Nor is it about judging what others might believe on the issue.
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No, cessationists do not necessarily reject the credibility of a certain miracle. Cessationism is the view that the miraculous spiritual gifts are no longer in effect, not always accompanied by the view that no miracles continue to occur.
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