Many see this as political writing. But given that thousands of churches and church members are harassed by their lack of interest or support in the present day secular nation-state of Israel by dispensational Zionists, secular Zionists, etc., it is once again appropriate to address this topic. It has direct bearing on our theology and [...]

Abraham Kuyper: Aggressive Reaction (to Traditional Apologetics) and Unnecessary Abandonment (of All Apologetics) (apologetics is “useless” (Lectures on Calvinism, 36). Herman Bavinck: Initial Critique and Summary of Solution (“The Valid Apologetic” in Reformed Dogmatics) Cornelius Van Til: Comprehensive Critique and Reformation (The Defense of the Faith, Introduction to Systematic Theology, A Christian Theory of Knowledge) [...]

Many of you have heard of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, which is one of the three foundational documents of RealApologetics.org. But many have not heard of the document written 6 years later, the 1695 Baptist Catechism (or “Keach’s Catechism”), which is the same faith expressed in a teachable, Q and A form. [...]

The most published and important branch of Hyper-Dispensationalism started to form in Wayne, New Jersey sometime around the 1930s: Here a group of believers began to see the importance of understanding the “the mystery” revealed to Paul, and the urgency of proclaiming the unadulterated “gospel of the grace of God.” It was Pastor C. R. [...]

As we’ve been learning in this series, Dispensationalism is a particular theology that evolved out of the cultural environment and personal experience of John Darby in the 1840s. I suggested that Dispensationalism was a poor way doing theology since it ignores the internal structure of God’s covenants and replaces them with man-made “dispensations.” Nevertheless, the [...]

After C.I. Scofield fought as a Confederate in the Civil War from 1861-62, he got married to a French Catholic and had three children. He entered law school and moved to Kansas in 1872. U.S. President Grant appointed him as the U. S. District Attorney of Kansas on June 9, 1873. Things were going well [...]

John Nelson Darby Darby was born in Westminster, London in 1800. When he was a young adult, he planned to be lawyer. But, before he could take the bar exam, he decided to switch over to the work of full-time ministry. It wasn’t long and he was preaching as a clergyman for the Church of [...]