Dr. Bob Griffin said:
The second conviction was that the premillennial coming of the Lord is the only hope of man.
First, premillennial does not mean Dispensational premillennial (hence the departure of Arno Gaebelein); second, who gave the Niagara Conference a monopoly on determining what constitutes fundamental truth? third, Dispensationalists have not established that man's only hope lies in a premillennial return of Christ, i.e. it is yet to be established that Dispensational premillennialism is any more "hopeful" than any other eschatology.
Is Premillennialism A Prerequisite for Fundamental Baptists
Discussion in '2003 Archive' started by Ulsterman, Jun 30, 2003.
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Two questions:
1. What does the text of the Niagra Conference points *actually say*? I can't find it on the net - I can only find references to it, and the comments on the 5th point (about Christ's return) are vague.
2. How representative of "fundamentalists" was this conference? Did it represent a small group, a big group, all fundamentalists everywhere, 50%, etc.? How can we know? -
Bump - I still can't find the text of the five points from the Niagra Conference. Anyone?
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I haven't found the text, either, but I have found this:
The 5 point of fundamentalism did not come from Niagara (they published 14 points) but from a resolution of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 1910 (LINK). The five points are:
1. The inerrancy of the Bible
2. The virgin birth of Christ
3. Christ's substitutionary atonement
4. Christ's bodily resurrection
5. The authenticity of Christ's miracles.
Here is a good LINK for the 14-point Niagara statement.
Here is an excerpt:
Andy
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