My grandparents and a lot of my family were/are in the dispensational/time camp. Lots of friends on both sides, understandings. My dad grew up Mennonite but his dad felt he wasn’t hearing the whole gospel, and changed churches and there my dad met my mom under hearing her Baptist dad preach. After listening to a professor at BJU, my dad felt called to go to Westminster in PA and I grew up under Covenant Theology teaching/OPC. After 48 years, same church, my dad retired and him and my mom go to a PCA church. I have been attending an incredible Baptist/evangelical church but it feels like Reformed Baptist church.
In a follow on article could you write about how each views the tribulation differently. Most covenant types are prederists (not sure I spelled that correctly) and thus there will be no great tribulation with many believing we are in it now.
RC Sproul always had a hard time with the tribulation and considered himself a partial prederist in that there would be a last minute rapture and Christs church would meet him in the air as he returned for his second coming.
Dispensationalism makes the most sense in that God is Holy thus will not judge the just with the unjust.
Thank you, William; I appreciate your comment. You spelled it correctly; preterism, and Sproul's partial preterist position is fascinating and worth a careful examination on its own. Your point about God's holiness is precisely the dispensational argument that resonates most deeply with me; a holy God does not judge the righteous with the unrighteous. That principle alone has significant prophetic implications. A full article on the Tribulation; the competing views, the timeline, and the theological stakes; is coming. Stay tuned.
My grandparents and a lot of my family were/are in the dispensational/time camp. Lots of friends on both sides, understandings. My dad grew up Mennonite but his dad felt he wasn’t hearing the whole gospel, and changed churches and there my dad met my mom under hearing her Baptist dad preach. After listening to a professor at BJU, my dad felt called to go to Westminster in PA and I grew up under Covenant Theology teaching/OPC. After 48 years, same church, my dad retired and him and my mom go to a PCA church. I have been attending an incredible Baptist/evangelical church but it feels like Reformed Baptist church.
So very helpful!!!! Brings comfort to me. May God bless you.
In a follow on article could you write about how each views the tribulation differently. Most covenant types are prederists (not sure I spelled that correctly) and thus there will be no great tribulation with many believing we are in it now.
RC Sproul always had a hard time with the tribulation and considered himself a partial prederist in that there would be a last minute rapture and Christs church would meet him in the air as he returned for his second coming.
Dispensationalism makes the most sense in that God is Holy thus will not judge the just with the unjust.
Great topic and well written article my brother.
Thank you, William; I appreciate your comment. You spelled it correctly; preterism, and Sproul's partial preterist position is fascinating and worth a careful examination on its own. Your point about God's holiness is precisely the dispensational argument that resonates most deeply with me; a holy God does not judge the righteous with the unrighteous. That principle alone has significant prophetic implications. A full article on the Tribulation; the competing views, the timeline, and the theological stakes; is coming. Stay tuned.