Semi-deism - Does God Have Laryngitis?

This is a post I have been goaded into making by an insanely absurd view of Sola Scriptura posted on another blog. Does God speak today, or a few years after Pentecost did the voice which shook the earth and promises to shake both heaven and earth lose aught of it's strength?

To those who would interpret Sola Scriptura as precluding God giving guidance today, let me ask a few questions. If you are honest and have a ready answer fair enough, but if not is what you believe right?

1. You do not believe that Scriptura Sola precludes preaching to expound upon Scripture, because preaching is enjoined in Scripture, but somehow all dreams, visions, etc. which are frequently used by God in Scripture interfere with it. Why?

2. If the cessation of the gifts was limited to the time of the canon of Scripture, then how do you explain Cyprian's prophecy of the soon cessation of persecution and his dream foretelling his death a year to the day before it occurred. Was the canon closed then or not?

As a pentecostal I believe that it was closed, and included in the canon are the ways in which God speaks to His people, including visions and dreams. God had already written all His inspired books, so the canon was closed. To have it close with a council is to place the church above the Bible and stand on Romish ground.

3. Does God not also speak through circumstances? If so how does this not violate your Scriptura Sola?

I would and do call this perversion of historic Scriptura Sola semi-deism. You go further than deism in that you do not deny the reality of revelation, or miracles, but yet you both deny they're possibilty today. All of the reasons given to show the rationality of revelation in the Bible also point to the speaking of God today...

Is it logical that God would create man and then not communicate at all? Is it any more logical that having created man, sought him when he fell and revealed Himself through His Son and the crucifixion and ressurection, He should no longer seek to communicate with man directly (obviously His communication would not be contradictory)? If He created man with a purpose, and far be it from Him to do anything without purpose, is it not logical that He would communicate that? If He had only a generic purpose in mind for all of us, how can He rule over history, where each small choice affects every other one? You must either deny His sovereignty, or acknowledge that God has grand purposes that are performed, but does not care about the little ones (Deism), or suffer a logical breakdown that God has specific and small oversight over our lives but only gives general guidance for us to figure it out by? Is that wisdom?

I leave all with that food for thought. God bless.