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Yep, dispensationalism gets a bad wrap from those who don't want to understand it.

I would much rather live during this dispensation of Grace rather than Law, but with the added knowledge this dispensation gives us there comes more responsibility. Judgement will be more harsh for those with more knowledge, and we in this dispensation of Grace have by far the most knowledge...

Paul said that one man regards everyday the same, and another regards a day as he pleases. Basically Paul said not to judge anyone who regards to set aside a particular day. Christ fulfilled the Law in it's entirety, including the Sabbath Day. He gave us liberty from the work of the Law. The...

Yes I do, because I don't recognize that God, I can't find Him in Scripture.

The Calvinists have told me for over 40 years that is the sovereignty of God, He can do whatever He wants. Z, that is not the God I serve, and how can they expect me to believe that when I can plainly see in Scripture the opposite God? Most of us take offense, in that we see it as an attack on...

No matter how it's rubbed over, that view see's a God that has left man to die in his sin without reaching out to him as He reached out to His so-called Elect.

You're confident in what you believe, we'll leave it at that. You certainly don't me explaining anything.

OK, Dave G, you have it figured out. Just ignore what I've said, I should have known better.

Just hear me out, Z, that's all I ask. What burns inside the majority of believers is double-predestination. They (we) reject it. There can be no single-predestination, if God in His sovereign will has elected some to salvation by default the rest are left for spiritual destruction. Where...

Of course there will be a rebuttal from the opposing belief, that is to be expected. I'm just asking you to research and see the roots of Calvinism, whether you agree or not. We didn't come up with this out of thin air.

If you have the time do some research on this info from the Library of Theology. Here's an excerpt. There are major similarities and yet subtle differences between Augustinianism and Gnosticism. While the Gnostics said that man’s nature was sinful and corrupt and that man didn’t have a free...

Now, BF, you know that's not what I'm saying. Let's don't be this way. @Silverhair is correct on the pagan philosophy, you can read all about it if you want.

Just picking with you, Z. I know you don't agree with me or SH.

Let's say, none that you'll accept.

Look at Cain and Abel to see how God reveals Himself to man. Both of them knew what the animal sacrifice meant, it represented the coming Messiah of God. Abel brought that animal sacrifice before God and was accepted, but what about Cain? Cain rebelled and brought a sacrifice of vegetables...

Of course I've read them, many times! All three examples you gave and several more including Pharaoh in Exodus are examples of rebellion and hardened hearts against God. God gives you what you want, as far as accepting Him or not. If you rebel and continue that rebellion and hardness against...

If unconditional election is true, then we are all saved through Reformed Theology and just don't know it yet. My original statement was said in sarcasm.

There's not a single one of us who wouldn't have done the same as Adam. We agree there for sure, Brother.

If we are honest with ourselves we know there is something that dwells in us that desires to lead us into evil. The Scripture doesn't say plainly that it's a nature, and if someone chooses not to call it that then that's fine. But we all need to bear in mind that something is there and it...

Well there's lots of Scripture from Paul in Romans that ties into this, and when you put it all together I see the lust of the flesh warring against the Spirit in the classical sense of good and evil. I know you don't believe that 2 natures can exist in man, but I believe they do. Paul teaches...