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 [...]

Christianity Today (June 2011) actually had two good articles that, though not without quibbles, are definitely worth mentioning. The first is “The Search for the Historical Adam,” which is an excellent summary of the theistic evolution, historical Adam, etc. debate. It raises the provocative question that every Christian must answer: Did Adam and Eve really [...]

“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 [...]

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. [...]