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    Dispensationalism

    The propensity to literalism with the symbolic visions of Daniel and Revelation while ignoring or making symbolic the clearer scriptures on the end times found in the Gospels and Letters. For example, why does “this generation” not mean “this generation” … placing many of the prophecies at Acts...
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    Dispensationalism

    All of Revelation is a vision (according to the author) so all of Revelation is symbolic. The same “yardstick” applies to the visions of Daniel. That is the nature of “visions”; they employ visual imagery to convey spiritual truths.
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    Dispensationalism

    Please correct me if you have a different understanding than I do, but the core of “dispensationalism” is that God relates with people differently in different times (ages or dispensations). Back to the paraphrased quote: “Unless you believe that nothing changed when Adam fell, then we are all...
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    Dispensationalism

    It would be fine, if it were true. However, I do not “detest dispensationalism” and that should have been clear from my opening statement … There is some merit in the work of dispensationalists when discussing the ‘Eras’ from creation to the Apostolic (and post-Apostolic ’Church Age’). There...
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    Dispensationalism

    The doctrine of the Trinity STILL does not exist for those that refuse to see it in scripture … OT or NT. Point being … it was ALWAYS there, whether people choose to admit it or not. Yes, with more “God breathed” scripture comes more revelation, but only a clearer focus of what was there from...
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    Dispensationalism

    Dispensationalism holds its own until one gets to eschatology where flights of fantasy replace what scripture actually says and eisegesis (reading meaning into the text) replaces exegesis (reading meaning out of the text) as the preferred mode of operation. As R.C. Sproul once said, unless you...
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    Dispensationalism

    [Genesis 1:1 NASB95] 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [Genesis 1:26 NASB95] 26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth...
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    Our Own Resurrection Means Nothing?

    I have no idea, but scripture teaches both: 2 Corinthians 5 6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are athome in the body we are absent from the Lord— 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight— 8 but we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent from the body and...
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    What year was it when the Catholic Church made up the fictional story of Maccabees?

    If this is really another run at a canonical Maccabees, let’s take a moment to examine the “Martyrdom of Polycarp”. Polycarp died in the Second Century AD (the exact date is debated). Nobody knows who wrote the book, but it is generally attributed to the “Early Church Fathers” as a group. The...
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    What year was it when the Catholic Church made up the fictional story of Maccabees?

    Since you cared enough to start a topic on it … Who told you the story of Maccabees was fictional? Who told you the “Catholic Church” made it up? (please clarify the word “Catholic”) … are you saying “Eastern Orthodox” “Roman Catholic” the “Universal” church of all believers? Why the...
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    What do you think about buying gold?

    Good advice for those in the Church of Laodicea. As a commodity investment, gold seems to have plateaued near a record high, making this a better time to sell than buy.
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    What year was it when the Catholic Church made up the fictional story of Maccabees?

    No.
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    Is observing Lent a good idea?

    Is observing Lent a good idea? Yes. Anything that places our focus on Christ is a ”good idea” so taking a ‘season’ to think about the coming of Resurrection Sunday will not harm anyone and may benefit most Christians. Giving something up, just to give something up, is not really “observing Lent”.
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    What is the Urim and Thummim?

    Nobody knows. Best guess: two stones, one light and one dark used to get a “YES” or “NO” answer from God.
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    How to identify a valid pastor.

    They wear their collar backwards. ;)
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    I believe Noah’s flood was 5,000 years ago, not 4,400.

    “Irrelevant” is a term YOU selected. I never made such a claim. What I said was … WHY there was a flood and and WHO created the flood is MORE IMPORTANT than the exact date of the flood. … and I stand by my statement of fact. The story of Noah is primarily a story of Who and Why rather than When.
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    I believe Noah’s flood was 5,000 years ago, not 4,400.

    I think the WHEN is less relevant than the WHO and WHY.
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    What's the moon for?

    The purpose of the moon is really cool in Celestial Mechanics terms. Gravitational perturbations cause planets to shift in their axis over time … without the moon, the other planets would cause the North Pole to “wobble” so that it might point more towards the sun (in summer) and further away...
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    Oldest piece of Tech you still use?

    That’s how I got my first flip phone … they mailed it to me free with a note that my 1G brick would soon no longer work so I had to use this free phone instead. I miss it when phones had a big GREEN button to answer and a small RED button to hang up and I didn’t need to claw at the screen like...
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    The order of things

    However, let us never fear or despair, because … “we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” - Romans 8:28 (I believe that the original Greek for “all things” really means “all things”) ;) … but don’t...
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