How Important Is It To Get Eschatology Right?

[Steven2006]

I believe it is of great importance, and being a dispensationalists which has taught me if we haven't got the first 11 chapters of Genesis correct we might be saved but we could be hurting the folks who come after us. Look at B. B. Warfield and Charles Hodge, Christians who were used greatly by God but were mess up on Gen. Hodge said," The church has been forced more than once to alter her interpretation of the Bible to accommodate the discoveries of science. But this has been done without doing any violence to the Scriptures or in any degree impairing their authority." I disagree, look at where Princeton is today on the Scriptures.
In the Scofield Reference Bible it has, "Relegate fossil to the primitive creation, and no conflict of science with the Genesis cosmogony remains." Again I disagree and the Scriptures do as well.

Get the first correct then get the Gospel out to a lost world and keep in mind eschatology, will help us remember time could be short, we need to get His Word out to a lost world. It all fits together.

Not sure I completely understand your response to my post since I wasn't talking about Genesis, creation or science, I was responding to the OP and the question of how important is it to understand completely eschatology. But that said I think we are for the most part in agreement. If you read my second post, I alluded to what I think you are getting at.

Because we should be looking to Christ and His return. We should be telling people about Christ and that He will return, that is very important. But saying that I still don't know if that also means it is so essential to understand exactly every detail of that happening.

 

[TCGreek]

They taste like chicken.

1. On a serious note, I think dinosaurs were created on day six and lived among man.

2. Why the Bible doesn't say a whole lot about them, I don't know, but it seems that after the flood the world environment so changed, that it became inhabitable for them to continue to live, so we have to turn the fossil records to learn more about them.

 

[Bob Alkire]

Not sure I completely understand your response to my post since I wasn't talking about Genesis, creation or science, I was responding to the OP and the question of how important is it to understand completely eschatology. But that said I think we are for the most part in agreement. If you read my second post, I alluded to what I think you are getting at.

My answer or what I was trying to say is you can be wrong on much of the history and eschatology and be saved. But it will give way to bad teaching in our schools,seminary and churches. Look at creation and the first 11 chapters of Genesis for a start in our seminaries, schools and churches. So many don't believe in the accounts in Genesis and I talking about professor, and preachers, which gives a much weaker message. I believe eschatology is the same, can be saved and be wrong which will make it harder for your family, friends and school.

 

[skypair]

I realize that most Reform churches do not study The Revelation at all. That is why many Calvies here have fuzzy or no opinion about what happens in the future. Most will say that the next event is Jesus coming back to set up His earthly kingdom which ignores huge portions of scripture regarding, importantly, that there will be a left behind, unbelieving church that will merge into the world religion of AC, Mt 25:1-13, 2Thes 2, Rev 2:22!

And so who would it be that doesn't want you to know this? Not God, right?

The most important issue then would be to discern God's program for the church vs God's program for Israel. Again, anyone looking at one covenant -- the covenant of grace (AKA Covenant Theology) -- is not prepared to study biblical eschatology. The coming tribulation is the consummation of God's dealing with ISRAEL and the 'holy city' (Dan 9:24).

skypair