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    ECT Only a D'ist would poo-poo Holford's victory

    Only a 2G2P2P D'ist would pee on Holford's victory against Payne by showing the bone-crushing force of God's wrath predicted by Christ in that generation. And did I mention it was a victory? It caused many in England to ignore Payne's total trashing of the Bible in 1805, so thoroughly, that...
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    ECT If David Calls Him 'Lord'

    ...and he did. The Lord who was to sit at God's right hand was already being called Lord and is now enthroned. It is David's own words who are most often used to underwrite this, in early Acts, in Hebrews, and in Acts 13. The land and temple promised completed their purposes in David's...
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    The distraction of locating Noah's Ark

    It is unfortunate that the important question about the deluge always ends up on the location of Noah's ark. This happened as recently as last fall's 'search for Noah's ark' release. All the chips were on that play. The deluge is instead an ENORMOUS GLOBAL GEOLOGICAL event by comparison with...
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    ECT D'ists would have skipped and poo-poo'd the 'triumphal entry'

    Because they are looking for an actual muscular kingdom of David on a throne in Jerusalem, Dispensationalists would not have attended the parade. A guy on a young donkey? You've got to be kidding!
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    ECT D'ism's doubts about the Davidic kingdom vs NT teaching

    The D'ist is afraid that the Bible is not reliable if there is no Davidic kingdom in Israel forthcoming. 1, the methodology is wrong. We are CHRISTIANS which means we read the OT as people IN CHRIST, and that it is fulfilled IN CHRIST. 2, Paul answers your doubt in Acts 13! The resurrection...
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    How the Bible solidfies its case as true

    The D'ist is afraid that the Bible is not reliable if there is no Davidic kingdom in Israel forthcoming. 1, the methodology is wrong. We are CHRISTIANS which means we read the OT as people IN CHRIST, and that it is fulfilled IN CHRIST. 2, Paul answers your doubt in Acts 13! The resurrection...
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    ECT the charade about 'saved' in Rom 11

    Nowhere in Romans does saved mean a restoration of Israel's theocracy. It is instead a way of grouping the 3 aspects of redemption together: justification, sanctification, glorification. In 11 itself, Paul is urging Jews to be at work in God's mission to the nations, and not to rely on one's...
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    ECT How D'ism Curtails Trust in the Bible

    The public defense of the Christian message is in a very odd situation because of Dispensationalism: while the weakest and most distant arguments are supposed to be believed, the most forceful and obvious demonstration of the truth of the Bible is held in suspicion by a clunking 'theology'...
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    ECT The "Land Issue" Not 'on hold'

    The NT has the following things to say about the land. It does not depict Christ doing or even aware of a land promise offer to follow up on. 1, Mt 5. The meek would inherit Israel, but not the zealots. Most of the Sermon on the Mount was said with them in mind. He tried to win and change...
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    ECT Rom 15 as one of the key self-organizing chapters

    The chapter makes it very clear what is going on with the promises to the fathers and the incoming of the believers from all nations. It has great OT quotes to underwrite this. It then does one other thing that we should all pay attention to: a defining of spiritual and physical blessings...
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    ECT Section Titles in Moses Writing

    The section titles of Moses writing Moses writing often had section titles. His units of material often follow this pattern: 1, title or topic 2, background 3, new material One of the reasons for this is that it was originally oral, told around herders and desert trekkers'...
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    ECT Another Note on the Letter of Hebrews

    As you may know, most of the NT is in Koine Greek which is relatively easy to work in. One exception is Luke-Acts which has triple the vocabulary and gets more complex in sentence structure. Still Greek was the market language of the day, so everything important was published in Greek. But...
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    ECT Why Rom 11 does not mean a restored Israel

    If you've read ch 10-11 attentively, you know that Paul would really like to see Israel in the mission of God. There are advantages to that. There is then the question in the trees and grafting section of 11 about who is really in the 'Israel' that Paul is talking about. The reason there is a...
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    ECT Is the OT entitled to equal time?

    Yes, we use the OT as background for the NT, but we don't pretend that the OT came after the NT. Rather that the NT came after and culminates things and matures them. The age of the child trainer or governess is over, Gal 4. Israel itself no longer exists for its own sake. It is to be part...
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    ECT Ignorant of Isaiah past 60?

    There is really not much different about Isaiah past ch 60. Most of the same themes that have been running are still there. Looking at a reference book on NT quotes of 60-66, there are some 45 selections used. The question, once one knows the NT, is whether the happy news of restoration...
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    ECT Luke's Parable of Minas

    1, Christ is the man who ascended to heaven and recieved a kingdom; he had left business in the charge of others. 2, the business is the mission of the Gospel, and especially what Jews should be doing about it 3, they didn't want the job; they hated him. He was 'made king' anyway 4, Some of...
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    ECT Why I Stopped Thinking Acts 3:19-21 Were Futurist

    First, I mean to say that futurist would be a very distant future. There simply is no conception like that in the NT. Almost all references to the 2nd coming in judgement, resulting in a NHNE were that it would be right after the Destruction of Jerusalem, and even that is not necessarily set...
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    ECT New MSS clarifies Rev 5:12; scholars squeal in delight

    Codex Clownicus (Cl)has been recently located in upper Phrigia and scholars are amazed to find a collation of v5 and 12 of Rev 5. They now realize that v12 was supposed to read: "Worthy is the Lion of Judah who has retaken Israel." (It was formerly thought to be ...the Lamb who was slain.)...
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    ECT Some lessons from Isaiah

    Once we know that the NT has quoted the OT, we are informed to look for something in an OT passage that we might not have seen otherwise. You are probably familiar with the Phillippians 2 passage about 'every knee will bow.' It is believed to be an early Christian song, and some translations...
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    ECT And now MAD says the prophets did not know of grace coming

    As for the stupidity of 'when did the prophets say grace was coming?' (I can't really believe someone would ask that): 2 Cor 6:1+ (based on what just got said in ch 5...). It's a quote from Isaiah about a whole age that was coming... A whole time period. I PETER 1:10: the prophets spoke of the...
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