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To: dartuser
Covenant theology imposes a NT perspective on the OT text, plain and simple.

You mean like Jesus and the apostles did repeatedly throughout the NT? I’m a Christian, so your charge is a non issue.

Because I recognize the truth of some of Calvins work does not mean I am a Calvinist

My only point was that you seem to imply that becoming Baptist was somehow automatically linked to being non Reformed or non covenantal. I do not see that necessary linkage.

62 posted on 10/20/2009 2:17:29 PM PDT by topcat54 ("Don't whine to me. It's all Darby's fault.")
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To: topcat54
You mean like Jesus and the apostles did repeatedly throughout the NT?

Yes, they routinely threw out the entire OT background of God's work in human history through the nation of Israel and discarded the literal interpretation of the OT. Highlight and expansion is one thing ... replacement theology is another.

My only point was that you seem to imply that becoming Baptist was somehow automatically linked to being non Reformed or non covenantal. I do not see that necessary linkage.

The linkage may not be necessary, I conceed the point. But there is no Baptist church I have ever been in that even had a hint of Covenant theological perspective.

Dispensational and non-dispensational theology will always dialogue ... as our evangelism approach and our desire to live a pure life in anticipation of the imminent return of Christ are common positions. But there is unlikely to be common ground in escatological discussions because we approach the formation of systematic theology at different starting points.

76 posted on 10/20/2009 5:46:12 PM PDT by dartuser ("If you torture the data long enough, it will confess, even to crimes it did not commit")
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