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"Covenental theology adherents rely more on the allegorical method of hermeneutic". I'm going to have to disagree with the fundamental understanding of the sentence here, I'm sorry. While Covenental theology certainly does, in some area's, recognize and use allegorical method, we only do so...

I also agree that Darby is not a sound attack against Dispensationalism. I think the doctrine falls by itself. *Just sayin.*

I think that anyone who has faced difficult life circumstances, at one point or another, would have come to have an appreciation and love for Romans 8. Or even those who grieve when they look at the world as it is now. Romans 8 tells us that our hope for something better is not in vain. There...

One of my favourites too!

I'm not sure that I suggested they are not connected, just that in each instance, the reference to the 'fire' must be considered in specific context. Sometimes fire warms, sometimes it destroys, and understanding which particular use the fire is being given, would change how we understand it...

Well, I agree our primary source must always be scripture, as it is solid and sure and can be a measure of God's truth to hold everything else up against. But I don't necessarily believe that we ought to dismiss dreams out of hand. We see in Acts: For these people are not drunk, as you suppose...

Man, I LOVE having dreams like that. I mean, I don't think they're particularly biblical, because in the dream I'm always aware that the Rapture is just about to happen, and you TASTE the anticipation in the air. But still, for that moment it makes it more...real...I suppose, than our musings on...

Mmmm. Not sure I understand you here. Personally, I find many ideas and thoughts comforting; especially if I can know that they are true....and that's the certainty scripture gives us. I know the doctrine of 'hell' is distressing to many. Thus, the 'idea' that it has been widely misunderstood...

Again, context is key when regarding what sort of 'refining fire' scripture is speaking about. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an...

Once again Enoch, you disparage but provide zero evidence but your own assertions that your point of view is correct. As a general rule, Christians ought to set their beliefs by scripture, don't you agree? So I find it a tad disingenuous that you would dismiss the questions and points of...

I suppose, I hadn't given it much thought, to be honest.

Well, perhaps its just me, but I like my absurdities to come with bible passages. You say I'm absurd...and sure, maybe I am, but I am trying to have an honest, scripture for scripture conversation about this. Short, pithy replies that aim to insult my intelligence is not doing your case much...

I think, that while you have some good points here, you are confusing and conflating the imagery of 'sheep to the right' and 'Christ being at the right hand of God'. If you'll permit me to explain: The bible is full of 'shadow' imagery and then the fulfillment. So, for example; the first Adam...

It's not that I'm particularly opposed to people having strongly held beliefs in some doctrine or another. The problem I have is when people make these large, sweeping claims with no sound biblical proof. They throw out a couple of bible verses like its their trump card, but then, like the...

Have you dug into the Covenants at all? The idea that God makes certain promises to his people, which he will uphold, should they uphold their end of the covenant. There are several Covenants in scripture, and while scholars will differ in how they are termed or thought of, they generally agree...

Matt 3:7-12 is not talking about the life of the 'wheat'...if that is the metaphor we want to try and stick to. Listen...to what John is saying, about those around him and about Jesus when he comes: But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You...

May I demonstrate the sort of logic you're using? You may have come across this before, its from the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway...

It's an interesting idea, and...sure...a tempting one. I don't think you'd find a Christian who would deny they'd love to believe that in the end everyone became saved. But, I'm not sure a faithful reading of scripture and those particular passages, can be arrived at that conclusion. Firstly...

You don't think that leaving a throne of glory, where angels praised and all of creation exalted him, to come into a human body and world, where mistreatment, hunger, weariness and ultimately torture and death, was not a form of "giving up his reputation"? Again, let me remind you what you have...

You've said a LOT of things and most of them were either contradictory or made zero sense. Let me refresh what you HAVE said: Now, to cover my bases, I defined "return", in case your objection was the fact that Jesus wasn't 'returning'. I also, if you recall, covered the fact that the bible...