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The notion that God's word contain instructions, truths, and teachings that become obsolete from the passage of time and/or because some new "dispensation" has obsoleted them extrapolates doubt of nearly all God's written word. We've been wrongly taught that numerous verses are "not for today...

Several things I've learned in the past few years led me to develop an electronic device that will allow your computer to graph a plant responding to your sentiments towards that plant. For example, if this device would have been available to Jesus and the disciples, they could have seen the...

Cleve Backster settled on the name Primary Perception for this phenomenon. I would like help coming up with a non-religious-sounding name that is more clearly descriptive of it. At the same time and even more importantly, if you know of Biblical teachings that are in opposition or support of...

As one who has a profound interest in reading Near Death Experiences (along with Out of Body Experiences like Kat Kerr's), I read and viewed Rev. Howard Storm's NDE where he reports he was shown by Jesus and angels that God desires the day to come on earth when people will grow their food...

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Could some of you list for me a few Christian groups/denominations that don't believe in the existance of dispensation time periods at all? At one time I incorrectly assumed that adherents of covenant theology, being so opposed, if you will, to dispensational theology did not believe in...

To elaborate, think about all the times you've heard the phrase "Back then, they ..." to explain away the relevancy of a verse of scripture. Example: "Back then, the Corinthian women would disrupt the service ..." to justify claiming obsolesence of the timeless (in my opinion) truth in 1 Cor...

Besides discussing the question in the title, could anyone tell me of a denomination or church that believes like me? I would love to fellowship with like-minded believers. I consider myself hyper- or ultra-fundamentalist, charismatic, non-dispensational, and "non-cultural". By non-cultural I...

The Lord bless you for at least reading this post.... Through reading scripture for all it's worth, I have come to abandon the dispensational thinking that I was always taught. I do not find it anywhere in scripture. But now I can't find a like-minded group to worship with. If ya'll have...

Hi everyone. I see a sticky post asking "What do the _____ believe?" and this post comes from the other direction - instead of beginning with a group, I begin with a set of beliefs asking which group might match up to it. I was raised in a Christian home according to dispensational...

...at least in the sense the term "dispensation" is popularly used. Jesus said scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35). This can only mean that, unless explicitely stated otherwise, truth for one time period remains true forever (Deut 29:29, Ps 119:89, Ps 119:16, Isa 40:8, etc.). IOW, silence...

You all have honored me by reading and responding to my posts. Thank you. My other responsibilities have prevented me from returning the honor to the extent I wanted to. I restate (maybe more concisely) that I am convinced from a simple reading of scripture that "dispensation" is not a time...

Does anyone think that "the things" of 2 Peter were to be "suspended" instead of kept "always in rememberence"? 2 Peter 1:12-15 - If so, you have to think that the above passage is private truth, against 2 Peter 1:20 - To me, the most straightforward understanding of this passage means...

I'll bet some of you are familiar with Things To Come Mission. My late uncle is remembered on page 7 of their Fall 2005 "International Harvest" newsletter. He passed away 11/13. I come from a family of Right Dividers with two other uncles and a several cousins in or used to be in that...

I'm ignorant of Covenant Theology, so please allow my sincere question: Does Does Covenant Theology teach that certain New Testament instructions have become irrelevant (covet to prophesy, head coverings while praying)? Or that they were for interpretation private to their first century...

Can someone show me chapter/verse whereby we KNOW that all dispensations come to an end by default when the next one begins? When God says explicitely that one ends, I can accept it for that particular dispensation. But God says so many times that His word stands forever that I believe it is...

Surely some phenotypic variation would produce 16 and 18 yr cicadas. If these little guys had been around for billions of years, why do we still see a very pronounced 17 year cycle for the entire population in general? What is keeping the population synchronized so much? Has anyone done the...

Maybe I've been misunderstanding all along. I don't do the denomination thing ("The head of every man is Christ", etc.), I just considered myself charismatic because I believe all the Bible (NT especially). That must mean I belong in the non-denom section. Love you all, and the Lord bless you!

Does anyone still believe the woman should cover her head when praying and prophesying, submit to her husband and refrain from speaking as part of the church service? We're all one in Christ, right? So those commands were never valid in the first place! Or is it that those commands were given...