Thank you Dr. Clark.


I like The White Horse Inn as well.


The essays are good to read. However, there are sweeping comments that are too general in regard to dispensationalism. DT is presented as decidedly Arminian; too wide of a brush ("the cross is ahappy by-product of God's plan for natioinal Israel").


"Honest Dispensationalists will admit this."
In other words, if you disagree then you are either dishonest, or ignorant.


"It's not a matter of who reads the Bible literally, it's a matter of who reads the Bible literally the way the Bible wants to be read, the way the Bible writers, esp. the Apostles, read it themselves."
This is well said, but poorly followed up.

"So ask yourself, who is a better guide to understanding the Hebrew Scriptures, Paul or C. Ryrie? There really is a choice."
Very unhelpful and unedifying use of sarcasm. A dispensationalist would insert Calvin or Witsius or one of the other heroes of CT here and the statement would be just as valid in reverse (though I usually prefer Calvin's comments over Ryrie's).


This discussion involved hermeneutics, not systematics. Any honest CT will admit that their system isn't much older than DT, in the scheme of things. It's not a matter of which is older, but which is right. There are tenets of both from the earliest days of the church.



Sorry Bob. At this point an effort to understand one another and discuss the difference in hermeneutics has been superceded...

Blessings
Joe

[Edited on 6-3-2006 by Wannabee]

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I do not know, and I do not say, that a person cannot believe in Revelation and in evolution, too, for a man may believe that which is infinitely wise and also that which is only asinine. ~ CHS