quick McArthur question

[nodak]

I am currently baptist but not Baptist so will post here.

I read on one of the threads on the Baptist only section where someone referred to McArthur as a dispensationalist. I thought he was calvinist. Did I miss something?

 

[DHK]

I am currently baptist but not Baptist so will post here.

I read on one of the threads on the Baptist only section where someone referred to McArthur as a dispensationalist. I thought he was calvinist. Did I miss something?

Most of the Calvinists (that are Baptists) that I know are dispensationalists.

 

[webdog]

I am currently baptist but not Baptist so will post here.

I read on one of the threads on the Baptist only section where someone referred to McArthur as a dispensationalist. I thought he was calvinist. Did I miss something?

You are correct. I agree with his eschatology, and not his soteriology.

 

[Perpetua]

I am currently baptist but not Baptist so will post here.

I read on one of the threads on the Baptist only section where someone referred to McArthur as a dispensationalist. I thought he was calvinist. Did I miss something?

Yes, he is both. Calvinist in Soteriology, dispensationalist in eschatology.

 

[TCGreek]

He's both. That's a fact.

But most in the Reformed tradition are Amillennialists.

 

[nodak]

Thanks! Yes, most (not all!) Baptist Calvinists I have met are pre mil. Not the same as dispensationalist--at least, not the same as those I know who identify as dispensationalist. But they do seem to be kinfolk theologies to each other.

I have to say most I know who identify as dispensationalist are not calvinist.

Starting to confuse even myself!

 

[TCGreek]

Thanks! Yes, most (not all!) Baptist Calvinists I have met are pre mil. Not the same as dispensationalist--at least, not the same as those I know who identify as dispensationalist. But they do seem to be kinfolk theologies to each other.

I have to say most I know who identify as dispensationalist are not calvinist.

Starting to confuse even myself!

Well, we could get into the discussion of the time of the Rapture. :thumbs:

 

[thomas15]

Thanks! Yes, most (not all!) Baptist Calvinists I have met are pre mil. Not the same as dispensationalist--at least, not the same as those I know who identify as dispensationalist. But they do seem to be kinfolk theologies to each other.

I have to say most I know who identify as dispensationalist are not calvinist.

Starting to confuse even myself!

Two other well known dispensationalist who are Calvinist: Lewis Sperry Chaffer and Henry Morris.

I think the real friction lies between Covenant Theology and Dispensationalist Theology. It depends on how the Scriptures are handled. Both can be Calvinist.