I won’t buy into any Christianity that is so cessationist that it turns God into a distant, uninvolved deistic style God.
The very incarnation of Jesus argues in favor of a God who will be involved with His creation, and of a God who will involve His people.
God is Spirit, so the greater realm of reality is spirit. His primary involvement with us will be spiritual, but that is no where near the same thing as metaphorical or allegorical.
It is an IN REALITY involvement with us. He is really involved in baptism, and He is really involved in communion, and He is really involved in prayer. I do NOT accept hyper-cessationism as Christian.
Amen to that. Everything goes back to the Garden. Every day, Adam walked with God and conversed with Him. It has always been about relationship. After Adam ate the fruit, God still showed up. It was Adam that ran off and avoided God.
God sent His Son to reconcile us with where we once stood with Him. The Creation itself cries out for it.