[Dr. Eckleburg]

But the fact that some 30% of the Bible pertains to prophecy

If you say so. And most of that prophecy was fulfilled with the coming of Jesus Christ.

Here's a handy chart detailing the distinctions...

COVENANT THEOLOGY vs. DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY

I fall to the right. Whole-heartedly.

[Quix]

GOODNESS, DR E!

KEEP this up and I’ll have reason to question your documentation on the RC threads.

There’s a list of WHOLESALE WRONG assertions about Dispies on that linked doc just from a quick scan of the first page.

Sheesh what a stinking pile of untruths.

[dartuser]

That is a pretty handy chart, despite the left-to-right impled incorrect-to-correct conotation lol. Very adequate for a Sunday School slide. Hope you don't mind me "pinching" it. Thanks.

But the chart merely highlights the end result of our two interpretive schemes. The heart of the matter is the interpretation of the OT text.

Where we disagree is in the theological methodology used for the formation of a Biblical Theology of the Old Testament. The dispensationalist forms a Biblical theology of the OT based on the historical-grammatical interpretation of the OT text. The non-dispensationalist would form a Biblical theology of the OT based on the New Testament understanding of the OT text what we would call "reading the NT back into the OT." This is the heart of the matter, we see a distinction between Israel and the church because a Biblical theology of the OT demands it.

Dr Stallard has provided a pretty good article on this topic.

http://www.pre-trib.org/articles/view/literal-hermeneutics-theological-method-and-essence-of-dispensationalism

enjoy ...