Recent content by John of Japan

People think the Internet is anonymous...or something.

Aha. Thank you!

For easternstar and anyone else who wishes to criticize dispensationalism knowledgeably...

I completely agree.

Again, your questions reveal a profound misunderstanding of not only dispensationalism but other theology. You don't even appear to know the actual Scripture that speaks of this particular doctrine: "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under...

No. Your statement would not be dispensationalism, which has a doxological basis with Christological emphasis, not an Israelology basis. The primary concern of God is His glory. The church and Israel are two ways God accomplishes that. To be fair, some dispensationalists have called the church...

In what way?

Valid point! I always thought if I believed in baptismal regeneration like the Church of Christ/Christian Church and others did, I'd build a baptistry of the back of a truck and cruise around looking for folks to dunk and save! On the road to Smyrna, Tennessee there used to be a Ch. of Christ...

No. Peter pointed out that God had given the Holy Spirit, and by the definition of "dispensation" as a stewardship, yes, receiving the Holy Spirit at Pentecost was a huge "dispensation," or responsibility. That is why dispensationalists put the beginning of the church in the revival at...

Right. And it's not prophetic, but simply how the Jews were commanded to worship. No reason for this whole fuss. It has nothing to do with dispensationalism. Just looked through some of the best books on dispensationalism, and not a one has Num. 19:2 listed in the verse index: Ryrie...

I know and believe that too. So I'm wondering what this whole hulabaloo is. :Coffee

No. Yes. Don't know don't care. It's an extremely peripheral area, not even prophetic IMO (Num. 19:2). I haven't researched it, don't teach it, and am amused that non-dispensationalists think it's important.

That is correct. Noted.

"It is important to notice that in the first two of these instances [ there can be no question that the Bible uses the word dispensatin in exactly the same way the dispensationalist does" (Charles Ryrie, Dispensationalism, p. 32; Eph. 1:10 & 3:2). Are you actually calling dispensationalism a...

Yes, obviously the dispensations each occupy time, but the time frame is much less important than the stewardship God gives to mankind in each dispensation. Innocency was pretty short, but the church has already lasted 2000 years! Yes, I do believe that there are times when the dispensations...