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To: Uncle Chip
Sure but what is meant by the phrase: "the end of the ages"???? Clearly there had been earlier "ages" and there were "ages" to come.

That is a different issue, and I agree that there were past “ages” (plural) and a future “age to come” (singular). The “ages” are past and we are presently in the “age to come”.

However, you were the one denying that Heb. 9:26 was referring to the "end of the ages" (plural) wrt Christ's coming to put away sin for His redeemed.

I take it now that you have backed away from that position.

The first half would be called "the beginning of the ages [aeons]" and

Where is this language used in Scripture? You seem to be wanting to twist things just enough to some end. Perhaps it futurist presuppositions getting the best of you.

162 posted on 08/14/2007 10:14:48 AM PDT by topcat54 ("... knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience." (James 1:3))
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To: topcat54
That is a different issue, and I agree that there were past “ages” (plural) and a future “age to come” (singular). The “ages” are past and we are presently in the “age to come”.

But Paul writes in Ephesians 2:7: "...that in the ages to come ..." --- that's plural, He was writing in the "age to come" about still more "ages" yet to come.

However, you were the one denying that Heb. 9:26 was referring to the "end of the ages" (plural) wrt Christ's coming to put away sin for His redeemed.

No I wasn't. Reread my responses to you. I questioned your implication that the "ages" ended there in the 1st century --- which you now admit they didn't.

Furthermore you have now taken a bold leap toward the dispensational position by finally realizing that there were "ages" [aeons] charted out by the Scriptures, and what the Scripture calls "ages [aeons]", others often refer to as "dispensations". Sshhhhh ---- I won't tell anybody if you don't.

163 posted on 08/14/2007 11:07:20 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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