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Originally posted by blhowes
Quote: Originally posted by Wannabee
So, progressive revelation is also a big part of the dispensational hermeneutic. The NT does shed light on the OT, but only when the NT passage took place. The OT writers/audience did not have the same insight (revelation) as the NT audience.
| I'm not sure what you mean when you say "...but only when the NT passage took place"
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Sorry Bob. That wasn't clear. My point was that there are many things that could not be understood until the NT was written. We can't read NT understanding into OT passages in cases where there was no way the OT audience could have understood it that way. The church is a good example. Their is no way the OT saints could understand "church" as we know it. Jesus made it clear that the church began at Pentacost (though there are some arguments that it may have been at other times, this is generally accepted by Dispies). There are other examples, but times burning and I must run.
Hope that was clearer.
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