Do you not think context is important? Or is it important only when YOU are denigrating other's proof texts?
Do you not think the continuity of the metaphor is important? If it doesn't mean wrath/anger, what is it signifying in your spin of the text?
Spiritual Interpretation....pt4
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Iconoclast, Apr 25, 2017.
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<------------> Disregard. Was texting my neighbor on the BB!
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Covenanter Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
I wonder where @Yeshua1 gets his comments from? If they were from Scripture, he would tell us.
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Covenanter Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
In previous threads I have tried to introduce the subject of Gabriel's seventy weeks. Daniel 9.
This I understand to be readily taken literally as referring to the saving work of Jesus, his confirmation of the covenant, & the destruction of Jerusalem & the temple.
70 weeks or 490 years would be expected to end soon after Jesus' saving ministry. Why do dispensationalists claiming "literal interpretation" separate the 70th week from the 69 by 2,000 years? -
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Does it say appearing, or coming? -
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Martin Marprelate Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
The Scriptures teach both that the Gospel will be preached all over the world and that people of every tribe, tongue and nation will be saved, but also that there will be terrible times in the Last days with persecution rising, and the love of the greater number will growing cold etc.
Is this not exactly what we see today, and have seen all through history? That the Gospel is moving in great power in various lands, but in others, dreadful persecution of Christians and a falling away in many places. Why should we be surprised or discouraged? The sovereign God who cleared all the missionaries out of China and then brought amazing revival may yet do something even greater in Europe or the Middle East before the end.
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John of Japan Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Let me ask this again. Did Keach tell you the purpose of figures of speech? If you don't know why the figures of speech are in Scripture, you can't interpret them correctly.
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John of Japan Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
1. His M.Div. and Ph.D. are from Whitefield Theological Seminary, which certainly looks like an Internet degree mill. For crying out loud, there are not even any faculty members listed in the catalog--apparently one guy runs the whole thing. How can I trust Chilton if he is dishonest in his education? I would happily be proven wrong about this, but having spent a huge effort and much money to get my degrees, I don't have much patience with degree mills.
2. If Chilton wrote the publisher's blurb, it shows grave misunderstanding of not only dispensational theology, but any premil position. It's very insulting to my theology.
3. He was involved in the Dominion movement, which is filled with problematic actions and teachings.
Besides, I would much rather learn what you think and know than Keatch or Chilton. Do original Bible study. You are capable of that. That's how I came to my own positions: hundreds of hours of personal Bible study. -
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The Reconstructionist Movement is very dangerous, as it blends together with Domenion theology!
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SCRIPTURE IS LITERATURE, and is to be treated that way, was it a literal Rooster that crowed, or did they in the first century have a man who'd come down, yell out "Hear oh Israel your sacrifice is here", which was called "The Rooster" or "The Cock Crow"
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There is no AntiChrist coming, AntiChrist is used 3 times in the epistles of John, it refers to anyone who denies Jesus came, anyone who denies He came in the flesh, or rejects Christ, the term "Anti-Christ" is not found in book of Revelation, same author John, but Beast is, number of the beast, 666 or 616, there is debate on this variant, but 666 is the name Ceasar Nero, trust me the Churches in the first century KNEW who John was talking about. -
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