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To: DreamsofPolycarp
That, and only that, is why I invest time showing its internal and historical contradictions, and its unbiblical nature.

Okay, that's fine, but then please invest some time in explaining the "unbiblical nature" of the dispensationalism of the apostles at the Council of Jerusalem here in Acts 15:

" 14Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. 18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."

239 posted on 05/23/2007 5:11:01 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
Okay, that's fine, but then please invest some time in explaining the "unbiblical nature" of the dispensationalism of the apostles at the Council of Jerusalem here in Acts 15:

Thank you for picking one of the very best sections of the New Testament to destroy the heremeneutic of the dispensational crew. In Acts 15 we have the first "problem issue" on how to incorporate the Gentiles into what was, up until now, an almost exclusively Jewish church. It was unthinkable that these persons could be "saved" and not have to obey the distinctions of the covenant people that had been followed for years. In hammering this out, we had first Peter stand up and say in essence "God saved US by faith and we could not keep the law, so why do you want to saddle them with what we could not do, since we are both saved by faith alone." Then Paul and Barnabas stood up and told about all the miracles and changed lives God was doing by faith. Finally James stands up and quotes Amos and says THIS SCRIPTURE IS FULFILLED HERE. What is most interesting about this is that this scripture was NOT fulfilled ";iterally" There was no fallen tabernacle of David which had been restored and yet James specifically states that the Gentiles flocking to Christ are a direct fulfillment of this prophecy. I cannot think of a better example of "spiritualizing" or "allegorizing" an OT prophecy than James does right here.

This is a classic example of how dispensational hermeneutics is in opposition to the scriptures itself, and the insistence of "literal" interpretation of OT apocalyptic genre is in fact, contrary to the scripture itself.

243 posted on 05/23/2007 7:36:47 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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