It is the Biblical notion that miracles have ceased to be normal... This is not to say that God has stopped performing miracles, or that the Holy Spirit has stopped working, but only that the Apostolic miracles such as speaking in tongues,
prophecy /
revelation, and healings have ceased as a normative
gift to individual believers: 1) The Holy Spirit's purpose in imparting the «sign
gifts,» has expired 2) The sign
gifts were given exclusively to the original Twelve Apostles, so that the sign
gifts and Apostleship are inextricably linked 3) The
gift of Apostleship no longer exists