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To: The Theophilus
It will be quick ...

what we know is that you place zero value on doctrinal consistency and are OK with abandoning doctrinal integrity.

lol ... ok ... Is there a question in there somewhere? What do you mean by doctrinal consistency? Doctrinal integrity? My guess is that any doctrine that doesnt hold your view is inconsistent ... so there is not much point.

We also know that you consider each and every theologian prior to Darby as heretical and dead wrong concerning the doctrines of atonement, redemption, soteriology and eschatology ...

You really are behind the rest of the class. Do you reject all theologians prior to Luther?

Perhaps you could educate me on how dispensationalism rejects the Biblical doctrine of atonement, redemption, and soteriology of theologians prior to Darby. Maybe just pick one ... for example, please expound on how modern dispensationalists reject the doctrine of soteriology as espoused by Calvin.

because Dispensationalism was invented in the mid 1800s

And by your logic you should adopt the doctrines of the RCC because Protestantism was invented a mere 500 years ago.

and never has been accepted within orthodoxy.

And apparently you have the corner on orthodoxy.

I think we are done here ...

56 posted on 12/16/2010 1:05:35 PM PST by dartuser ("The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has limits.")
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To: dartuser
What do you mean by doctrinal consistency? Doctrinal integrity? My guess is that any doctrine that doesnt hold your view is inconsistent ... so there is not much point.

So your a priori position is that ALL of Christendom before Darby had it ALL wrong about eschatology, the doctrines of redemption, the Church, the Atonement, and, depending on which of the several variants of Dispensationalism you subscribe to, the doctrines of Grace. YOU are projecting that unless people agree with YOU, they are wrong.

Here is a random example of Dispensationalism's doctrinal inconsistency: Restoration of Temple Sacrifices. It is impossible for a Dispensationalist to recognize the final work of Christ on the cross and simultaneously say that Jesus Christ will be administering blood animal sacrifices in a temple made of human hands in the new earthly Jerusalem. So pick one, was His death and resurrection the final and perfect sacrifice, or is exactly one thousand years of future animal sacrifices administered by Jesus Christ in the [glorified] flesh the way to atone for sins?

Let's start there.

57 posted on 12/16/2010 1:43:28 PM PST by The Theophilus
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