And you're comfortable calling Zone a conspiracy theorist ??
By the 4th & 5th centuries various doctrinal variants were introduced into the Church via the pre Eastern Orthodox Church as persecution began to die down thus leading some to believe that the Church had entered into a new age resulting in the creation and adoption of Cessationism and Ammillennialism by the Orthodoc & Catholic Churches, both doctrines could be argued to contradict scripture if one were to interpret scripture at face value. Again, it only makes sense to me that the gifts of the Spirit would begin to dwindle as bad doctrine began to be incorporated into the Church.
Yup ... God fell asleep at the wheel. But know He's back ... working all kinds of signs and wonders for whoever seeks them (since the turn of the 20th century ... early 1900's)
In my personal opinion, now that man has both the means of travel and the technology to reach even the most remote places on earth, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are needed now more than ever for the fulfillment of the great commission.
The preaching of the gospel is what saves souls. And God will accomplish what He has started.
“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands” (Rev. 7:9).