We believe the sixty-six books of the Bible are God’s “special revelation” to man. We believe the Bible is sufficient for everything pertaining to life and godliness, and that the biblical canon is closed. We do not believe God is giving inspired special revelation to people today, like He did to the patriarchs, prophets, and apostles of old. Christians are called to live by the Word of God alone, not by feelings, emotions, intuition, what we sense, or our interpretations of God’s providential acts or events around us. is where the description goes.

We do not believe there can be fallible special revelation. The Holy Spirit, being God, cannot err; therefore, what He communicates to man cannot err. There is no such thing as fallible prophecy, visions, dreams, or inspired special revelation of any kind. The idea that there can be fallible special revelation is an accommodation to those in Charismatic circles who claim to receive special revelation from God, but what they claim is from the Lord doesn’t come true. Those who falsely claim divine revelation that fails to come to pass are deceivers or false teachers, and their words are not from the Lord (Deuteronomy 18:20–22).

We believe God still performs miracles—salvation being a regular miracle of God. Sometimes God performs miracles in answer to prayer. Yet God is not giving men miraculous sign gifts in the church today. Sign gifts were given to verify and identify a messenger of God and his message during times when the Bible was being written. Now that we have the completed Biblical canon, the full and sufficient revelation of God, sign gifts are no longer needed. Men were given sign gifts during three distinct periods of history, which always meet these three criteria: 1) sign gifts were only given to a select few, 2) sign gifts were only given in a specific geographical location, and 3) sign gifts were only given while the Bible was being written. The three distinct periods when God gave men sign gifts were the time of Moses, the time of the prophets Elijah and Elisha, and the time of Jesus and the Apostles.

We believe God gave the gift of tongues during the time of the Apostles, while the New Testament was being written. The biblical gift of tongues is when a person is supernaturally gifted by God to speak in a known language, previously unknown to them, so that others who speak that known language can understand the Word of God being preached. Both the preacher who has the biblical gift of tongues and the listeners who hear someone preach with the gift of tongues understand what is being said. Those who do not speak the known language that is being spoken through the gift of tongues need an interpreter. The Apostle Paul, in I Corinthians 14, distinguishes between the biblical gift of tongues and pagan ecstatic speech. Ecstatic speech is gibberish, not a known language, not edifying to others, can’t be interpreted, and the speaker doesn’t know what he is saying. The biblical gift of tongues edifies others, is practiced out of love for others, is destined to pass away, and is used to evangelize the lost, is never to be practiced by women in the church, and is to be used in an orderly manner. Sign gifts have never been the norm for the people of God. The Bible warns that in the latter days, Satan will seek to deceive even the elect with false signs and wonders.