We received such doctrine from the Bible. No man has refined these details yet. They have discovered the same general overarching principles by which we then identified the quarks within their neutrons, but we did this from the Bible. Not man.
Dispensationalism.... when are they ever going to get it right?
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You may not like or agree with UGC's style,
but everyone loves this man, even those who disagreed with him:
Not many good theologians are left, and Ryrie only recently passed on.
Truly a respectable man of God who dedicated his life to the service.
but everyone loves this man, even those who disagreed with him:
Not many good theologians are left, and Ryrie only recently passed on.
Truly a respectable man of God who dedicated his life to the service.
You are conflating two different things:
1) God's Truth: unchanging
2) Man's attempt to understand God's Truth: always learning
Since we are disconnected by time and culture, we are always learning more and more.
For example:
-- Translators didn't know how to translate the Hebrew word, pym in 1 Samuel 13.21 UNTIL archaeologists found a "pim weight" in their digs (circa 1904).
-- We didn't know that the Greek of the NT was Koine Greek... the common street language. Translators, up until the 19th century, treated the translation of Greek as if it was Classical Greek... this has enlightened us to the sentence structure, word placements and given us a better understanding of what was always before us.
So, while God's truths never change... our understanding of them becomes better and better as we learn about the past.
So, your doctrine of Complete Dispensationalism is so difficult to explain that it takes you multiple videos? It appears to me that your "Complete Dispensationalism" will never be "complete."
Are we to believe that you have actually completed the doctrine of Dispensationalism of which Charles Ryrie, BA, ThM, ThD spent 70 years teaching? The phrasing "Complete Dispensationalism" is quite an ambitious word for a twenty-something, MBA.
We have to consider our audience. Many of them don't even know what Dispensationalism is. Milk before meat: if Complete Dispensationalism is really "Complete" in the general sense of the word, it will include meat doctrine and we need to get through the milk first for everybody.
I enjoyed the content of his words in that video. Did you guys watch it? It was really good, the first time I've seen it actually.
I'm in my 30's. And I've mentioned before, like all areas of research, whether it be science, medicine, etc, the lifelong work of all who came before you can be absorbed in a fraction of the time it took them to discover and clarify it in their own words. What might've taken one of them years to figure out, once they outlined their understanding of it in their writings, it only takes the person reading it a few minutes to understand. This accelerates with each new generation because we have increasingly more sources going back further through history than all generations prior, with the generation immediately before us having more advanced research than all of before it, because they did the same thing in refining the lifelong work of those before them.
Also, ever since Complete Dispensationalism was clarified from the scriptures, I have been under relentless spiritual attack and opposition that has been even more unnatural than before, so I do request people's prayers because it is not always easy to deal with. Thanks brothers and sisters.
I'm not conflating. God truth as revealed by God and His messengers has NOT changed once. Our elaborations on their words has. We need to stick to what they said and how they said it. We don't need to re-brand it or try to say we've perfected it.
You have to admit that dispensationalism has been a very unstable theology.
There is no pym in 1 Samuel 13:21 and western culture's silliness in understanding Greek of the Scriptures is their own measure. Eastern Orthodoxy never had such issues.
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Huh? That's not what he's saying. He's seen it. He just watched it as in he didn't watch it last year, etc.
The OT was in Hebrew, not Greek. PYM is bolded
וְהָיְתָה הַפְּצִירָה פִים לַמַּחֲרֵשֹׁת וְלָאֵתִים וְלִשְׁלֹשׁ קִלְּשׁוֹן וּלְהַקַּרְדֻּמִּים וּלְהַצִּיב הַדָּרְבָן׃
When you speak with Mormons they often present themselves as persecuted and under attack. Sometimes you can fall under attack for doing the right thing, other times the attacks may be because you have strayed so far off in left field. Also if you use hostile language and insult and lie it should be no surprise when you do not receive a warm reception.
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That's funny, Ugg comes storming in here abusing people, trying to intimidate them by posting his short little pugilistic videos, and starts calling people names if they don't agree with him on everything - he has branded people atheists, Satanists, Masons, Catholics, soy boys, etc. - and then he asks us to pray for him because he is under "relentless spiritual attack and opposition." He can dish it out but he can't take it.
I think I understand it if you look at Ruckmanism in relation to IFB. The IFB world seems to put an emphasis on the more manly you are the more Christian you are. Which was likely out of a legitimate concern rising from the mainstream churches that were beginning to become more "feminized" in the 50's. I heard a sermon recently talking about ingredients in chocolate chip cookies. He said "I think you put sugar in there, I'm not sure how they make them actually." He was careful not to admit that he knew how to cook anything. Anyway Ruckmanism seems to take many of the worst elements of IFB and double down on them. So in their minds resisting fleshly desires to name call or use vulgar language isn't manly. Rather doing anything to win the fight is. This means vulgarity (where it is allowed), name calling, lying-it's all fair game.
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Makes perfect sense. Uggs are as far from brains as they can get, and so are you.