{"id":151,"date":"2005-01-22T00:47:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-25T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T20:51:52","slug":"dispensational-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/dispensational-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispensational Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sozo<\/a>
\nsupplied a link in the comments section<\/a>
\na little bit ago with a pretty good chart showing the differences of Covenant
\nTheology, New Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism. The chart<\/a>
\ndoesn?t go into the differences in dispensationalism and even states as much
\nbeing very open to the fact that it is written from an NCT point of view. I do
\nhave certain problems with the chart and the brother?s commentary.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Sadly, it?s something that I?ve often noticed?this
\npropensity to bash dispensationalists as being foolish and inconsistent. This
\nis extremely hurtful when considering that dispensationalists read the same
\ninspired Scriptures. To snap at each other, unleashing the tongue, is most
\nharmful. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Brother Doug<\/a> makes it a
\npoint to not mire himself in eschatology<\/a>
\nand in so doing he proves how much wiser he is than myself. I?m not going to
\nanswer every single point in the chart but I will address some things which
\nhearken to those rash generalizations and presumptions that are so often being
\nmade by non-dispensationalists.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

[DISP]
\nStresses ‘literal’ interpretation of the Bible.
\n[CT] Accepts both literal and figurative (spiritual) interpretation of the
\nBible.
\n[NCT] Same as CT.<\/o:p><\/i><\/p>\n

This
\nis fundamentally correct. The chart does seem to imply that CT and NCT make
\nsense because they acknowledge literal and figurative interpretation. The
\nproblem is that they make a point to show that figurative means spiritual. They
\ndon?t mean the same thing.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sure
\ndispensationalists stress literal reading of the text and literal
\ninterpretation but that?s in the same sense that you would read any single
\nbook. It doesn?t ignore the rules of language, or figurative writing, or
\nmetaphorical expressions?not at all. It looks at the literal words and what
\nthey mean and how they?re being used to draw the meaning of the passage.
\nSpiritualization is the process by which you take a literal event and make it
\nmean something spiritual, sacred or religious. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Now
\nsomeone may have a problem with this and say something absurd like ?I have yet
\nto meet a dispensationalist who believes in a literal dragon ruling the world?.
\nDispensationalists read with the grammatical usage used in the period the text
\nwas written to establish the meaning of the passage. So when a
\ndispensationalist reads about this ?dragon? he reads with the understanding
\nthat this is what John historically saw in his vision. When John offers an
\ninterpretation we understand the literal meaning of what he saw?he told us.
\n?Oh, the dragon is that old serpent, who is the Devil?. Most of the time when
\nthere are really wild pictures like that in Scripture, there is an
\ninterpretation nearby.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Why
\nuse this method of interpretation? Paul tells us that the Word of God is
\nprofitable (2 Ti 3:16<\/st1:time><\/st1:time>)
\nand that starts to tell me that if it has that many uses?it has to be pretty
\nspecific and clear cut. Every single word in there serves a purpose and is
\ntremendously important if one is going to see doctrine, correct others,
\ninstruct each other and reprove some others. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Even
\nthe language it was written would then play a role in interpreting the text. It
\nwasn?t written in Chinese or in German?but God chose Greek and Hebrew and
\nAramaic to convey meaning to man. Since Scripture is of no man?s own source we should
\nthen be more willing to see what God has stated when he moved men to write
\n(2Pet 1:20<\/st1:time><\/st1:time>,
\n21).<\/o:p><\/p>\n

That
\nbeing the case let?s drop the loaded word ?literal?. Dispensationalists then 1)
\nUse the plain meaning of the word without spiritualizing it and 2) note that
\nthe text will set up the basis for interpretation. (Ice, p 32)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

-r-<\/u1:p><\/i><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Thomas
\nD. Ice ?Dispensational Hermeneutics,? in Issues in Dispensationalism<\/i>.
\nWillis and Master, eds, 1994<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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