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Good post (although I detect a hint of corporate election ;) but no worries :))

My mind goes quickly to the gospel accounts with this issue. I see conservatives (like myself) use exegetical gymnastics to deny an apparent discrepancy. I find these apparent discrepancies easier to solve through the study of the Jesus tradition and ipsissima vox (used in a broader sense than...

Like I was saying, no "iron scepter."

Define error

Are you referring to a particular passage??? Where is iron scepter in the Bible?

I'm a big fan of singing after the sermon since I see worship through music as a response to being filled w/ the Spirit and not a preparatory practice to be filled. But that's for another thread.

I'm curious... why do you keep posting Comfort's commentary info? Are you trying to prove a point that I missed somewhere. Again, very curious.

Even those in academic dispensationalism critique the view that distinguishes between the K of God and the K of heaven. The real question is, "What does the word 'kingdom' actually mean?" For me, it primarily means reign or rulership or kingship mostly because that is the primary meaning of...

So I preached to my students the other day, and the chaplain said I should give the students a chance to respond by raising their hands or something to that effect. I said I don't find a Biblical precedent for it, so I let my theology drive my practice, the Holy Spirit will change their hearts...

Actually, I am not an advocate of the platonic concept of some ethereal place where we will be spending eternity. My destination is not heaven above but the recreated heavens and earth in the New Jerusalem in a resurrected body. However, I also believe the language of gathering from the 4...

I just don't understand people wanting to get "degrees" from a place like this. What is the point? Even having the moniker "dr." to their name means little when you look and see from where it was granted. Sad.

No... the redefinition of Israel began with Jesus. He re-enacts many of Israel's significant events ebodying Israel. Thus, he fulfills Israel's covenants (2 Cor. 1:20). Jesus, in many places and examples, extends this concept of Israel redefined to his disciples and eventually the disciples...

But you are presuming a 7 year hell-on-earth scenario that doesn't really have much biblical support. So the time of the rapture around those 7 years becomes moot. If there is no 7 year terror fest, then the timing of the rapture just does not matter b/c it doesn't exist.

Others would say neither. I would say that it is not that Israel was renamed "church" only that Israel was redefined.

I completely agree it is a matter of interpretation. My problem is that there is nothing that says "7 years." So there is a lot of qualifying and vacillating going on.

Then you've not really carefully read that book. NCT is not covenant theology. They for the most part arrive at the same conclusions, but they get there differently. I don't hold to the theological covenants of grace, redemption, or works. I do see the Scriptures unfold its drama through...

But these verses don't go into proving a tribulation of 7 years. Where is that ever mentioned???

I don't see a 7 year trib coming to the world. It may get better or worse (not sure where I fall there), but I believe that the next event to occur is Jesus to return and usher in the completed kingdom associated w/ the new heavens and new earth and New Jerusalem (i.e. eternity). I believe the...

You've already skipped ahead. Does the Bible even teach a 7 year tribulation as the pre-tribbers believe??? You have to define and defend "tribulation" before you put a timing of rapture on it.

You do realize that you can be amill and not be a covenanter right? There is a new brand of theology unfortunately dubbed "new covenant theology." Of course there are many forms, but basically it holds to many views of covenant theology w/out adhereing to the theological covenants. So it...