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Maybe you encountered people who espouse HyperCalvinism? They represent fewer than 1% of Calvinists. Some do hold to eternal justification. To them faith is just a realization that God has already saved them in eternity past. However election does not equal justification. Ask a Calvinist: did...

Steve King's views have already been out in public for a while. It should have been dealt with much earlier. I think the bigger press attention is what is causing Republicans to react to it now.

A private blog - very interesting. In the old days I collected papers and written notes that I placed in folders in a filing cabinet. I don't add to it anymore but still look for materials in there. Over time final notes shifted to the computer, first in Word, then mind maps (MindManager)...

There are a couple of different interpretations of Daniel's stone kingdom in the Dispensationalist tradition. The first view holds that the Daniel passage marks the fall and succession of different kingdoms. The Roman empire never fell to Christians (i.e., the kingdom of God), and there is a...

Distinction between Israel and the church is a key to dispensationalism. At the same time dispensationalism has never been a static tradition. So it is an error to mash Ryrie, Larkin, Darby and Walvoord all together and think they all held to the same beliefs across the board. Many classical...

Do you not know that dispensationalists believe that the church started in Acts 2? That we hold the Jewish believers in Acts 2 were members of the church? That we hold the new covenant was 1) inaugurated by Jesus at the Last Supper, 2) "cut" by His death on the cross, and 3) blessings are...

You really missed the point. If "write a paper on the topic" means he wrote about the idea of a pretribulation rapture, then you have already conceded the point. The conerstone to the "rapture hoax" theory is that the pretribulation rapture originated from Lacunza. If evidence shows that the...

No, I am arguing with you and your understanding of Paul. You are not responding to my arguments or my understanding of Scripture, just repeating the same things. If the olive tree is the New Covenant Church, then why would unbelieving Jewish branches be growing out the New Covenant Church...

The theory commonly called "the rapture hoax" for the origins of the pretribulation rapture goes something like this: 1. The idea originated with Immanuel Lacunza, a Roman Catholic Jesuit, who published a book in 1812 (in Spanish) called The Coming of Messiah in Majesty and Glory. 2. Edward...

The "Blessing" in Galatians 3:14 is a reference to salvation by grace through faith. This is something distinctively different than the promises of the Abrahamic covenant. In Gen 15:6 Abraham believed and was justified. This was before the Abrahamic Covenant was cut (15:9-21) and before he was...

BABarean2, The speaker in the video you posted is telling all progressive dispensationalists that they don't know their own beliefs, and that they MUST conform with what the speaker says and thinks is dispensationalism.

Hi BibleWriter, glad to see you are still around. Its been years since I was last here on CF. Not sure about recent posts, but dispensationalist forums do seem to draw people who want to criticize it. Years ago I read Gerstner's Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth hoping to get a balanced...

I am a dispensationalist, and I have no problem with viewing Paul as both Jewish and a believer at the same time. The church is made up of believers, both Jewish and Gentile. Israel consists of believers and unbelievers. There is some overlap between the two of Jewish believers such as Paul and...

Hi JF, No in the sense of identity with the label "progressive dispensationalist" - however yes in the sense of embracing certain options raised by progressive dispensationalists. Dispensationalism is not a static tradition. It has a heavy emphasis on progressive revelation along with a...

I don’t know what you mean by “Calvin’s style of writing.” Calvin actually wrote what Strong quoted, its easy enough to show they came from Calvin's commentaries. Your phrase “the atonement is not extended to all” contradicts Calvin’s phrase “and not because it is in reality extended to...

Oz, I think the case is solved, from here. Strong's quote of Calvin is not a single quote but a series of 4 quotes from Calvin's comments on 1 John 2:2, Rom 5:18, Mark 14:24 and John 3:16. Here is a portion of the article that references Strong's quotes:

I believe Eerdman's was founded in 1911, so its unlikely that they were the publisher. I think it likely that Strong had access to Calvin's Opera Omnia*, a massive Latin work of 59 volumes, and probably translated it from the Latin. The quote from Strong is consistent with what Calvin has...

In the past I think mainstream dispensationalists overreacted a bit to hyperdispensationalism. I disagree with hyperdispensational conclusions, but I wouldn't call them heretics. I think you hit upon the major practical difference - baptism. Here in the US it seems doctrinal conflicts among...

Well its a good rant, because you don't want the Bible to be just another book. Think of the homework as an opportunity to build a foundation of knowledge on the Bible. Like you said, most kids - and even most adults - don't take the time to study the Bible on the own. LDG

Yes, I heartily agree with the maxim and your disposition toward those with whom you disagree. :thumbsup: LDG