Featured What led you to depart from Dispensational teachings?

Premil viewpoint still good, but not the rest of dispy!

 

Where does the "Mediatorial Kingdom" come in that 3D scheme?

Does the New Covenant end with the second advent? Or continue through to the NH&NE?

 

I get the impression, from both real & fake news, that Dispensationalism. in the form of "Christian Zionism" is the established religion over there.

I completely rejected premillennialism, & Pentecostalism, when I read in their doctrinal basis - "The Premillennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ."

 

Yea well that can create a political football. If you do know Sinclair Ferguson you should reach out to him to compare notes.....he will both shock you & make you laugh.

 

I was a Pre Trib Tim Lahaye man, Was taught it all my life. As I got older I questioned things, Questioned the timing of the "rapture" then questioned if there was one because some preacher came into our church and preached on Post tribulation (which he was never allowed back). And finally I heard a Partial preterist preacher online explain the discourse to me in the most simple way I could imagine. No more adding this, having gaps here.


It all clicked. I do still question things much on Revelation and the Antichrist but ever finding this site and the great people here, I am learning more than I could imagine.

 

are reformed thinkers amillenianist?

 

Some. Though, I've been around more Presbyterians than Baptists, so that may explain it.

 

Some. Some are postmillennialists. Still others are historic premillennialists (Chiliasts).

 

I began serious questioning (about several things from my Southern Baptist upbringing, not just Dispensationalism) after I followed the advice of my non-denom Bible teacher to 'Strip away everything you think you know about the Bible and approach it as a child. Begin on page one and read through as quickly as possible in order to capture the ideal of it, praying as David, "Let me behold wondrous things from thy law" '.

 

I was historical premil, but under the mentoring of Dr. Monroe Parker, I was drawn toward dispensationalism because of (a) the fact that the glory of God is the foundational principle for the theology, and (b) its emphasis on grammatical-historical hermeneutics.

 

SBTS President Albert Mohler declared this on his radio show in 2010:

"I'm not sure that dispensational premillenialists are wrong....I'm certainly not sure they're wrong, and I'll tell you this—one of the good things is, I've never met a liberal dispensationalist, and I'm very thankful for that. Dispensationalists love the Scripture and they are determined to obey and to understand the Scripture"

 

Not all “dispensation” thinkers are Darby/Lahaye followers.

Dispensation is merely another form of outlining the Scriptures in a short method distinguishing various ages.

 

Hopefully the same eulogy applies to all evangelicals, regardless of our views on eschatology.

 

I will add that the greatest battles I fought were those who not only rejected dispensational/premillennial thinking, but passionately embraced both preterist or covenant thinking.

It seemed inevitably the endorsement brought some decline either in moral fiber, Bible veracity, and/or puffed up dismissive attitudes. This was not as prevalent in Baptist churches, but standard in Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopal, and some Presbyterian leaders.

Catholics were the worse!

Not declaring that any scheme automatically brought such decline, for all certainly have the numerous failures, just that which seemed more consistent.

Back in the day, it seemed preachers who were covenant holders where more often found struggleing to read the Scriptures through eyes too long before the cup which was not coffee or Dr. Pepper.

Ever wonder why the worldly media industry never seems to mock covenant and preterist thinkers?

 

Did some eschatology die?