[Dr. Eckleburg]

How many things discerned from Irenaeus's writings here are taught in the churches of Christendom today. We can start with 1]Preterism, then 2] the Allegorization of the Scriptures, then 3] Replacement Theology, then 4] an irrational disdain for and mischaracterization of Dispensational Theology, then 5] that what the prophets of the Jewish side of the Book wrote are not for today, then 6] the use of those versions of the Bible that are based upon the corrupted manuscripts that came from the hands of the disciples of Father Simon the Magician.

You're batting one for five here, Chip.

Partial Preterism is faithfully Scriptural; there are some allegories offered in the Scriptures (a map is not equal to the territory); The New Covenant has replaced the Old Covenant (new wine in new wineskins); and a disdain for dispensationalism is a healthy disdain for a political agenda being superimposed over God's word in the guise of correct doctrine.

I will give you that the use of corrupted texts is a great error and a backroad to Rome, unlike the Textus Receptus which remains the most faithful rendering of God's word.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Meant to ping you, too.

[Uncle Chip]

Read Irenaeus carefully. His writings are not Scripture but they are worth listening to. He is identifying the origin of things that are in the church today and where they come from. I'm not batting here, Irenaeus is. Try to strike him out, if you can.