In a recent comment here at Expository Thoughts, a reader named Joe took issue with the dispensational teaching that the land promises to Israel have yet to be fulfilled. Joe made several arguments in his refutation, one of which was the often repeated claim that the land promises of the Old Testament were completely fulfilled [...]
Archive for June, 2008
20 Jun
Typology and “Christ in all of Scripture”
We’ve been discussing typology in the comments to a previous post and I found a very interesting quote from the pen of Bernard Ramm (1956). He writes, “In an effort to find devotional and edifying truth in all Scripture, and to find Christ veritably in all Scripture, some dispensationalists have pressed typological interpretation beyond its [...]
14 Jun
Interview with Walter Kaiser
Andy Cheung has a nice interview with Walter Kaiser. He notes: More recently, there has been a view, from a good reformed position, that the New Testament has the right to reinterpret or attach meanings that were not in the text of the Old Testament. My way of thinking, as I have argued very hard [...]
12 Jun
Theology of the New Covenant
A crux interpretum with significant theological implications is the meaning of the promised New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-34; Ezek. 36:22-36). How does one distinguish between Israel and the church if at all (a debate between dispensational and covenant theologians)? Does the church presently participate in the NC and is there more than one NC (a debate [...]
11 Jun
The Essentials of Dispensationalism
Theological labels can be very helpful, and yet also very frustrating. Helpful in how they so quickly communicate where you stand on a given theological issue, and yet frustrating in how often they don’t do so very accurately. Misrepresentations abound, and when you say that you are a such-and-such, that label may communicate all kinds of [...]
5 Jun
Reflections on dual authorship
I want to thank Matt for pointing out the aspect of dual authorship in Matthew. This is a great illustration that clearly notes the unique specificity that the Lord used in communicating His word. A question that is not unrelated to this is over the agency by which the writers of Scripture delivered the divine [...]
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