The reason I'm on this track is because the word "dispensationalist" gets used as a pejorative more often than not. There are a lot of crazy ideas that get attached to the word — antisemitism being the most relevant one at the moment — such that the well gets poisoned almost every time.
I've no...
I get the point and agree. I just like my way of trying to get it across.
I prefer to just state the doctrinal information. Saying "Calvinist" or "dispensationalist" tends to classify people rather than communicate a set of beliefs.
My pleasure. :D
OK. I think it's best to discuss...
No.
What we believe is irrelevant.
They have meanings. They're not useful when trying to figure out what the Bible is saying.
Trial and error.
Context.
Whims.
You can.
It was a suggestion I gave, not a command.
PWDennis:
When relativity theory is defended, people tend to say GPS wouldn't work without it. Are the GPS calculations also merely Doppler calculations?
I think so.
Some guy said that Muslim extremists and Christian extremists were the same and I asked him for an example. Then the entire Internet started mocking me. More than 10 million views and 6,000 replies and shares. Lol.
Even with cracks, gravity doesn't take water very deep — although, to be fair, CM probably means pressure. And, yeah, at any great depth, the pressure gets too great for gaps. Water inside the Earth will only ever travel upward.
To be fair, the inferences about antediluvian atmospheric conditions are mostly speculation.
There are a few Biblical certainties regarding the time.
And I think the canopy idea is poisoning the discussion a bit.