Category: Hermeneutics
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The Golden Rule
If you’d like to stir the pot, tell folks that the “Golden Rule” doesn’t apply to everyone. If you’d really like to stir the pot, say the same thing about the entire sermon encompassing the Golden Rule (Matthew 5-7, the “Sermon on the Mount”). Lest one think my dispensational convictions have…
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Daily Bale for October 2, 2012
Today started significantly different than most other days. Hannah is getting braces and that’s done at Case Western Reserve. It’s a lot cheaper but it isn’t exactly around the corner, being a good 45 minute drive away. Of course, there isn’t a whole lot around the corner where I live anyway!…
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Mystery
The word “mystery” in the NT refers to truth previously concealed but now presently revealed. That definition is borne out in Matthew 13:11-17. Note especially verse 17– For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it,…
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Christ in the Old Testament
There has been an effort among many to “find Christ in the Old Testament.” This has brought both good and bad results, and such from both covenant and dispensational perspectives. I unashamedly align with a “classic” dispensational approach to the Scriptures (a la Ryrie’s Dispensationalism), but I will be the…