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To: mas cerveza por favor
These iPhone Amish are wrong for thinking they can atone for sin by throwing away the Bible to embrace dispensationalist heresy.

Care to expound on that a bit?

22 posted on 12/01/2010 3:20:24 PM PST by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: mgstarr
Care to expound on that a bit?

If this article is correct, these Amish have adopted the dispensational nonesense about "replacement theology." Such an idea never existed prior to John Darby, the Nineteenth Century founder of dispensationalism. The term "replacement theology" is a false, pejorative insult against traditional Christianity.

The Jews who followed their prophesied Messiah were not "replacing" anybody. They remained faithful to God as they founded the Church and eventually brought in the Gentiles. Unbelievers were not God's people in the Old Covenant, so their status has not changed.

1 Peter 2:9 "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;"

28 posted on 12/01/2010 3:44:12 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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