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My parents went to Wheaton with Dr. Hendricks back in the 1940's. They called him "Howie."

My son teaches hermeneutics here--and refuses to let me horn in on it. He starts the first class with what not to do--an Internet video that tries to make out Obama as the Antichrist using numerology. Hilarious!

 

Ooh, do we have to go there? (Low voice: The one where JRR thought Mussolini was the Antichrist?)

 

This thing of studying all by yourself (and exceeding in knowledge people who put the hard work in to graduate from Bible college and seminary) reminds me of when I was an assistant instructor in a kung fu school, and two guys wandered in and wanted to spar. Their style was "Jeet Coonee Dough," and they were completely self taught. (They meant Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee's method.) I did a side kick to the head of one, stopping an inch away, and he said with wild eyes, "What was that?" It was a basic side kick, taught to our students in the very first lesson.

Let's not brag about our ignorance, okay?

 

My virtual lips are totally sealed.

Gotta go home. My wife's out of town and I'm at MickeyD's. Catch you later.

 

He was always pretrib, to my knowledge. Being in the SBC in his youth (possibly until 1955), he came to a premil position through personal Bible study. He never embraced dispensationalism, but admired Scofield and often quoted him, sometimes positively and sometimes to disagree. So the Scofield Bible may be what steered him to pretrib.

And you are forgiven for leaning, ever so slightly, to post trib.

 

Lean in to your computer. A little closer. They study the Bible at any good Baptist College that I know of, for Pete's sake.

This is logically irrelevant and even incoherent. Taking one graduate of these schools with whose theology you disagree, and making that mean that Bible college students don't study the Bible is a complete non sequiter.

Personally, I am not so arrogant as to say that anyone not believing in my dispensationalism is believing theological fiction.

American aid does not go to providing free health care and education for Israelis. Don't know where you got that. And actually, American public education is free. I went through 13 years of it myself. And any American (or illegal immigrant, for that matter) has access to free emergency room care anywhere in the 50 states. Please, get your facts right, Brit.

Never learned that at Bible college or seminary, myself, and I have attended 4 fundamental schools and teach at another. The only class this would be taught in is one on personal evangelism, and they don't teach that here where I teach, and the Japanese textbook I wrote on the subject didn't teach it either.

P. S. I never heard of any Bible college anywhere giving free Scofield Bibles to their students. You must have picked that one out of the ether--the 19th century scientific version, that is.

 

Yes, and one view of a Spirit indwelt believer can be Dispensationalism and another can be historic premil and another dispensationalism.

Hmm. I wonder who we are meant to think of as "proud" and who as "humble" in this post??

 

I was just checking my record, and I took 37 credits of undergrad Bible. (I'm not even including my seminary training.) At the usual 14 class hours for each credit, that's a total of 518 actual class hours of sitting under the teaching of godly, well-studied men such as Dr. Wymal Porter or Dr. Dennis Wisdom. (That does not include the hundreds of hours I spent studying for these classes.) What an awesome privilege I had of being taught by these wonderful men of God at Tennessee Temple. I truly thank God for my education at Bible colleges and seminaries, and for the godly, wise scholars who taught me.

This does not include the chapel and revival and missionary conference services I was required to attend, hearing some of the greatest preachers of the day: Lee Roberson, John R. Rice, Monroe Parker, E. J. Daniels, R. G. Lee (preaching "Payday Someday"), and many, many more. I would not trade my Bible college education for a billion dollars.

The "wannabe" Bibliologist (like Pidgeon) touts his own personal study as being authoritative over sitting in the classroom of godly and wise scholars. That's baloney, malarkey, and self-delusion.

 

You clobbered that nail right on the head.