Having a more dispensational past has left me quite “out of the loop” in regards to what “covenant theology” is and what it really means. The last few years of investigation have really allowed me to understand covenant theology. I have recently been working my way through Greg Nichols’ “Covenant Theology: A Reformed and Baptist [...]

Just came across Newkirk’s RTS thesis American Christian Zionism (hilarious how it appears right before Steve Hays’ thesis!). Download it here. I’ve only scanned through it; it looks like a very useful work. I can’t wait to sit down and read it all when I get the chance. Here’s a partial listing of Table of [...]

Hey Jamin, I have recently wanted to become more familiar with the subject of dispensationalism vs. covenant theology. I am currently reading Dispensationalism by Ryrie and have Michael Horton’s book on Covenant Theology (if you have a better recommendation I will purchase it). As I am downloading your lectures on apologetics, I decided to check [...]

I was reading through Robertson’s excellent work The Israel of God today. I found within the first 50 pages a fantastic summary of what I’ve been saying about Dispensational Zionism and Israel etc. for the past several months of this blog (earning myself the interesting title “dupe for the jihadists” (Hays) and…well, fill in the [...]

“It is the duty of all true followers of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to bless Israel and reaffirm her fundamental legitimacy and right to the Land.” – Joel Rosenberg, “With All Due Respect, The Vatican’s Latest, Painful Pronouncement On Israel is Wrong,” October 25, 2010 Introduction The unsound theology of historic Dispensationalism has [...]

Lyndon Unger posted a lengthy comment on my post “Darby’s Dubious Method of Bible Interpretation.” I decided to post my response here as well: I’m not sure you understand that this post is part and parcel of a larger refutation of Hyper-Dispensationalism. So when you say “I havent read anyone who says x,” it’s often [...]

I’m not sure how helpful this will be to anyone, but I laughed so hard I had to share it: We have even heard it asserted that those who lived before the coming of Christ do not belong to the church of God! We never know what we shall hear next, and perhaps it is [...]