As a youngster of 12 -and-a-half years old, I first heard the teaching of the pre-tribulation rapture from Dr. Charles J. Woodbridge, of dear memory. He was most impressed with an air of authority in his person. He presented the …
The New Covenant, Torah and Dispensationalism, Essay 12
Dispensationalism embraced a fundamentally wrong view of the Torah of Moses. Exodus-Deuteronomy was looked at as a dispensation of law that offered salvation based on keeping the Law or works righteousness. There were grace notes in the Torah that one …
The Gospel of the Kingdom, and Salvation by Allegiance Alone, Essay 11
Michael Bates has written a very important book entitled Salvation by Allegiance Alone. This is a presentation that is very counter to classical Dispensationalism. Bate’s thesis is simple. It is that the word range of the Greek word for faith …
The Gospel of the Kingdom and Discipleship, Essay 10
George Ladd and Dallas Willard When the Gospel is wrongly preached, there is often difficulty in motivating people to enter into discipleship. Because J. N. Darby and Classical Dispensationalism separated the Gospel from discipleship, the idea of “cheap grace” in …
The Mosaic Covenant: Grace or Law, Essay 9
Theologians in the history of Christianity came up with many different approaches to the Mosaic Covenant. Sometimes with Antisemitic tropes the Mosaic Covenant, often called only the Mosaic Law, was presented as a punishment for the Jewish people because of …
Grace and Law: Classical Christianity and Dispensationalism, Essay 8 in Beyond Dispensationalism
How the Law of God relates to the message of salvation by grace and the invitation to enter the Kingdom has been a source of much debate in the history of the Church. I will speak about the Protestant history …
Hyper-Grace and Carnal Christians, Essay 7 in Beyond Dispensationalism
I spent my teen summers at a famous Camp at a beautiful lake in the mountains. I eventually became a counselor. The pattern for the meetings, especially in the evenings was the same every week. On Saturday through Tuesday, there …
Bible Haters and their Humanistic Love Paradox
We are living in an age that is unusual for its hatred for the Bible and Christianity. The apologists for hating biblical faith make two major claims among others. One is that the Bible is full of violence and vengeance …
A Literal Hermeneutic, Essay 6
Dispensationalists have done a service for the Body of Believers in raising the awareness of subjective methods of hermeneutics (the science of text interpretation). After so many centuries of domination by those whose approach to the Hebrew Bible especially, was …
Thoughts Given to a Friend on Israel and the Palestinians
Here are thoughts to help with your article. 1. It is very important to not conflate the three very different situations in Israel within the Green Line (an armistice line- never a defined border) and Gaza and the West Bank. …