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To: Gamecock
As an outsider looking in -- question: why do guys on both sides of the divide persist in using the terms "dispensationalist" or "replacementarian"? From what I've read, if one takes the strict definition of the terms, hardly anyone fits them exactly.

Instead of a serious debate, this can be reduced to poster's hurling "d.." or "rep..." a

41 posted on 06/08/2012 12:16:31 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos
As an outsider looking in -- question: why do guys on both sides of the divide persist in using the terms "dispensationalist" or "replacementarian"? From what I've read, if one takes the strict definition of the terms, hardly anyone fits them exactly.

"Dispensational" is their own term for themselves. It goes back quite a ways, at least to Clarance Larkin and the Scofield Reference Bible. Google it, go to Wikipedia.

"Replacement Theology" is their pejorative term for those that don't hold to the dispensationaists own unique views of the church and it's relation to Israel. The term has no meaning, outside their circles, and no one outside their circles talks that way.

"Replacementarian" is term coined by a Freerepublic dispensationalist*. Same old hooey, different day.

Instead of a serious debate, this can be reduced to poster's hurling "d.." or "rep..." a
Not a lot of headway seems to be made.

*whom I will not ping. No good is likely to come of it.

49 posted on 06/08/2012 5:25:43 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it." -- J. Gresham Machen)
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