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 [...]

I am continually amazed at how much God has already used some of my material on Hyper-Dispensationalism (drafts from a book that is still being written!). Praise the Lord. This came in the mail today: My name is [name] I am a minister in the Kansas City area, though I will soon be planting a [...]

Hi Jamin, I just read your article over on AOMIN, on Joel Fink. It struck a huge cord with me as I was once a very committed Hyper-Dispy. I live in the [place], close to where the original Berean Bible College started. I also attended Grace Gospel Center in Bensenville, IL , where Jim Kirwood [...]

I noticed a familiar face on the front page of the May 27th, 2011 Yankton Press and Dakotan. Yes indeed, Pastor Joel Finck, that Hyper-Dispensationalist apologist who’s written several books criticizing orthodox Christianity, Calvinism, and everyone else who believes in any form of water baptism (whether paedo or credo)… After Pastor Finck preached as a [...]

As we saw in the last post in this series, the hyper-dispensationalist application of I Peter 2:8-9 is misapplied. As scholars have concluded, I Peter was written to Gentiles as much as Jews and not strictly to Jews or the “nation” of Israel. Why? If Peter is writing only to the Jewish nation of Israel, [...]

In case you want the primary sources of this heretical movement, below is (in order of importance) some resources with online links to either the full PDF text or hard copy (keep in mind, I’m limiting ‘Hyper-Dispensationalism” to Stam’s branch only, beings as it is the most published and perhaps the most popular): Cornelius Stam. [...]

Orthodox Christian theology teaches that “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work,”(II Timothy 3:16). Granted, some texts may be more directly applicable to certain audiences than others. Context determines [...]