In keeping with the theme of refuting dispensationalism, I wanted to post this link to an article about the secret rapture theory from a Reformed Baptist perspective, written by Brian Schwertley in 1999. He writes, Whenever a Christian encounters a doctrine that has not been taught by anyone in any branch of Christ’s church for […]
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For any of you who may be lurking on my blog, wondering what happened to the series on Mike Horton’s book Introducing Covenant Theology, I have not forgotten it. I took time out to read Kim Riddlebarger’s A Case for Amillennialism, and now I’m reading R. Scott Clark’s Recovering the Reformed Confession. The young church
“The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture, is the Scripture itself; and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it may be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.” Westminster Confession of Faith, I.9.
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Kim Riddlebarger takes a crack at the meaning of the First Resurrection in Revelation 20, and also discusses the “already and not yet” aspect of our “already raised” status in Christ. Sounds familiar. 😉 “The Age of the Holy Spirit” (mp3) I know some of you will appreciate this.
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Richard Gaffin, quoted by Rev. Kim Riddlebarger in A Case for Amillenialism: The unity of the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers is such that the latter consists of two episodes in the experience of the individual believer—one which is already past, already realized [e.g. Col. 2:12: “having been buried with him in
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You may remember my recent post about the “Evening of Eschatology” at Bethlehem Baptist. Justin Taylor posted recently on What You Must Believe if You Are a Premillennialist, and included a lengthy chapter (really too long for a blog post) reprinted from a Sam Storms work-in-progress. Then Jim Hamilton posted a rebuttal, reiterating his argument
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I am thoroughly enjoying the Todd Wilken interviews with Dr. Kim Riddlebarger on the Lutheran Public Radio program, “Issues, etc.” (based in Illinois). Download the audio here. Two comments: 1) I had no idea about the lack of security Dispensationalists have, despite their “get-out-of-hell-free-card”, “ticket-to-heaven”, “once saved always saved” mantras. Mr. Wilken provides some really
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