No one around here hates dispensationalists, so get over it. It’s dispensationalism that is hard to digest for many of us. We’ve been there, we’re tasted the product, we’ve searched the Scriptures, we’ve seen the result, and we found better pastures. We’re just trying to save others the pain we endured for a time by comparing Scripture with Scripture.
And, as I’ve said before, the “real truth of the teaching” of dispensationalism is rather elusive since a) there is no universal dispensational creed, and b) some of you folks (like the progressives) keep changing the terms of the agreement.
“And, as I’ve said before, the “real truth of the teaching” of dispensationalism is rather elusive since a) there is no universal dispensational creed, and b) some of you folks (like the progressives) keep changing the terms of the agreement”
And after the social gospel, two world wars, the atomic bomb, communist purges and Pol Pot, post-mils decided that maybe the world wasn’t getting better as fast as they thought so now it’s back to the secret yeast thing.
And the amils still haven’t come up with a good reason for the sudden inbreaking of the triumphal Christ if Satan has been locked up and everything is just coasting along. What’s the point?
We will know when He dicides to tell us.
It’s REPLACEMENTARIANISM that is hard to digest for many of us. We’ve seen the destructive results, some even tasted the product in past religious ‘incarnations,’ we’ve searched the Scriptures, we’ve seen the dreadful results, and we found the truth of the better pastures much more Scriptural and fruitful for The Kingdom. We’re just trying to save others the pain we’ve observed so much of for such a long time by comparing Scripture with Scripture and believing the whole counsel of God in the whole of Scripture. It’s a frightful thing to see the deadliness of so much REPLACEMENTARIANISM unnecessarily result in too many sliding into hell unwittingly and ignorantly because of it.
The real truth of Dispensationlism lies in the difference between the Church and Israel.
That the promises made to Israel are not made to the Church.
That is the essential point that is lacking in false views of dispensationalism such as the 'progressive' one.
Two returns of Christ are mentioned in the scriptures, one for His Church (1Thess.4) and one coming back with His Church (Rev.19) to set up the Davidic Kingdom which has yet to happen.
Any escatological view that ignores that fact is simply rejecting clear scripture on the subject.