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  1. Ethan1942

    Dispensationalism...

    Beckie, I agree. I doubt very many laymen who love to hear these dispensationalists preach Revelation, are aware of how their teachers actually wish to return to the Old Covenant by becoming rank literalists starting at Ezekiel 40. From the Jamieson, Fausset & Brown Commentary in the...
  2. Ethan1942

    Dispensationalism...

    The KJV, as in the literal YLT does not use the name "Nile" anywhere, but uses "river". Consider the clear statements of God's word later. "Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms...
  3. Ethan1942

    Dispensationalism...

    Give the Scripture you are referring to when you mention the Nile. I can only discuss the Scriptures, not someone's opinion without giving the text as the basis of their statement.
  4. Ethan1942

    Dispensationalism...

    The danger of dispensationalism is the habit of reading the symbolic and figurative passages of Scripture as literal, and then reading the plainly literal passages as figurative or symbolic. Often the dispensationalist holds beliefs that are explicitly contradicted by the Scriptures. One clear...
  5. Ethan1942

    Dispensationalism...

    When it comes to theological systems, I try to stick closer to the explicit words of God, without trying to read between the lines or adding what I think is implied, in order to build a new theory or system of theology. By "new" I mean in the latter 1800s. In the KVJ the word "dispensation"...