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To: fishtank
Then you could move on to the work of Pentecost, Walvoord, Ryrie, MacArthur, Scofield and Wuest.

Why? Their brand of heresy was developed in the mid 1800s and has gone over several iterations and redevelopments so that Scofield and Ryrie don't have much in common. Is it eight dispensations, seven, four or three? Your guys can't agree, so do we have to refute each one? In fact, your team has gotten beaten down so much that we now have a new form of Dysfunctionalism called "Progressive" which borrows more and more from orthodox eschatological doctrines because so much of Dysfunctionalism is at odds with Scripture.

In a desperate and uncivil act, MacArthur invited a number of amill/post-mil theologians over to his seminary and proceeded to insult them. There are quite a number of refutations of his "Why all self respecting Calvinists should be Dispensationalists" screed, so much so that I have had to revisit my opinion of the integrity of John MacArthur - is his pride bigger than his zeal for truth?

Of course, everything I happen to believe comes from a plain, literal, normative reading of Scripture...

Actually it doesn't. It comes from profound arrogance and raw ignorance that leads you to think that you are smarter and better educated in the Scriptures than thousands of years of theologians that precede you. You must believe that you are a better Biblical scholar than Edwards, Owens, Luther, Henry, Whitefield, Spurgeon, Augustine, Aquinas, Warfield and ST writers such as Calvin, Hodge, Reymond and Berkhof.

I submit that you haven't spent even 1/100th of 1% of the time studying Scriptures, learning the languages, or studying the notes, comments and lectures that any of the aforementioned men of God have spent in their devotion to knowing and communicating the Word of God.

I can name drop as easy as you.

108 posted on 12/11/2010 8:55:26 PM PST by The Theophilus
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To: The Theophilus
There are quite a number of refutations of his "Why all self respecting Calvinists should be Dispensationalists" screed, so much so that I have had to revisit my opinion of the integrity of John MacArthur - is his pride bigger than his zeal for truth?

Dispensationalism is a hard meme to shake off. For those that have it, the church/Israel distinction is low level and axiomatic, and can't be questioned. It is to Johnny Mac's credit that he refers to himself as a "leaky dispensationalist". The leakier, the better.

141 posted on 12/12/2010 3:47:01 PM PST by Lee N. Field ("evangelicals don't know Torah well enough to be theonomists." --D. G. Hart)
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