But then don't come on my posts and try to do the same thing you're accusing me of. If you believe you are being unfairly "labeled" or otherwise unfairly treated, then I don't want to read any more disparaging remarks about "futurists" or "dispensationalists" or any of the garbage I've been treated to for years.
And it's not just a matter of not "(subsrcibing) to (my) view of eschatology". I've had outright denials of prophetic Scripture thrown at me for years. Now that the activity of fulfilled prophecy is picking up, even the most diehard deniers are having a tough time posting their denials without looking like idiots.
So while nobody knows the exact time Jesus will return, He did give us signs to look for and commanded us to look for those signs and recognize them as portents of His soon return. And that's what I intend to keep doing.
But then don't come on my posts
Label it "Caucus", and keep the overt hostility down ("Caucus threads are closed to any poster who is not a member of the caucus. ... The “caucus” article and posts must not compare beliefs or speak in behalf of a belief outside the caucus."). Otherwise it's fair game.
then I don't want to read any more disparaging remarks about "futurists" or "dispensationalists" or any of the garbage I've been treated to for years.
Maybe I'll just bookmark that post for later use, the next time someone starts ranting about "antisemitic replacement theology".
Don't like "dispensationalist"? "Dispensationalist" is what your school calls themselves. What would you prefer? "Futurist", likewise, is fairly innocuous.
I've had outright denials of prophetic Scripture thrown at me for years.
Not only does He want us to be on watch, He promises us a crown of righteousness for doing so.
"Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." (2 Timothy 4:8).
“You can believe what you please - it doesn’t have any effect on me whatsoever. “
I don’t believe what I please - I don’t have that right.
“But then don’t come on my posts and try to do the same thing you’re accusing me of. If you believe you are being unfairly “labeled” or otherwise unfairly treated, then I don’t want to read any more disparaging remarks about “futurists” or “dispensationalists” or any of the garbage I’ve been treated to for years. “
I have made no disparaging remarks, to the best of my knowledge. If I have, I apologise. I have certainly disagreed with you, but that is the nature of an “open” thread.
I was dispensationalist until about 1985 when I was in my late twenties. At that stage I had no idea there were even any other views having been brought up in the Plymouth Brethren. Then my beliefs were challenged by a very Godly Christian in a Bible study. That led me on a long, hard look at Scripture where I was forced to re-evaluate the basis for what I believed. In too many cases, it turned out to be the teachings of men (Darby, Schofield,etc and their more recent successors), rather than God’s Word.