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To: P-Marlowe; xzins; HarleyD
That would make you a... dispensationalist.

Not necessarily. Progressive revelation exists within Reformed eschatologies as well.

171 posted on 04/16/2007 5:43:49 AM PDT by jude24 (Seen in Beijing: "Shangri-La is in you mind, but your Buffalo is not.")
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To: jude24; HarleyD; xzins
Progressive revelation exists within Reformed eschatologies as well.

Call it what you want. It's still dispensationalism.

172 posted on 04/16/2007 5:48:54 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: jude24; topcat54; Dr. Eckleburg
Exactly. The events of Acts were the revelation of an expansion of the scope of God's covenant visible covenant community beyond the borders of ethnic Israel, from the biological covenant line of Abraham to the spiritual covenant line. That expansion is a major theme throughout the New Testament. The New Covenant is essentially a reaffirmation and expansion of the Old Covenant. Or, as C. Matthew McMahon described it, God's covenant dealings with man are built progressively throughout Scripture like a skyscraper, with each successive covenant building upon the next. The scaffolding is put in place to provide the framework and then the next portion is built on top of the previous.

The fundamental difference between Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology in that respect is that in the former each section of the building looks markedly and jarringly different from the section beneath it.

176 posted on 04/16/2007 6:22:24 AM PDT by Frumanchu (Historical Revisionism: When you're tired of being on the losing side of history.)
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