Hermeneutics, the science and skill of interpretation, is most often applied to the Bible. But hermeneutics can be applied to any written document. For example, the Constitution is a piece of literature that requires interpretive skill to determine its meaning.
Full Story » Every Superman fan is familiar with “Bizarro World.” Written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, Bizarro World depicts an upside-down and backwards planet where everything is the opposite of Superman’s world, including the Man of Steel himself. Jerry Seinfeld, a huge Superman fan, did a “Bizarro World” episode where Elaine meets Jerry, Kramer, and George “opposites.”
Full Story » A great deal of confusion exists in the church over the definition of legalism. There are those who conclude that a legalist is someone who “keeps the commandments.” This cannot be legalism since the Bible commends those who keep God’s commandments.
Full Story » All law, even law as it developed in pagan societies, is based on a belief that some god or god-force is behind it all. Consider the Code of Hammurabi. A stone tablet that depicts the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi, who ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C., is shown receiving the law from the god Marduk.
Full Story » In 1960, J. B. Phillips wrote a little book with an extraordinary title – Your God is Too Small. “For many persons,” he pointed out, “the greatest stumbling block to mature faith lies in the fact that they haven’t found a God big enough for their needs – big enough to ‘account for’ life, and to command their respect and worship.”1
Full Story » We briefly summarized the latest Barbara Walters ABC News Special, “Heaven: Where is it and how do we get there?” Since nothing of substance was really accomplished by the show, and no burning questions were addressed or even attempted, we will need to look at the main premise of the show and form our own analysis.
Full Story » One of the most significant Biblical promises is recorded in Genesis 49:10 – “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh comes (or, ‘until he comes to whom it belongs,’ cf. Ezek. 21:27); and to Him shall be the obedience of the people.”
Full Story » Now that we’ve gotten some preliminaries out of the way, what is the truth behind the charge that non-dispensationalists believe in “replacement theology,” that the Church replaces ethnic Israel and her promises and that God is through with Israel forever? As I will show, the Gospels and Acts demonstrate that the first New Covenant believers were Jews who were defined as the Church by Jesus and Stephen.
Full Story » The pre-tribulational rapture is a necessary doctrine in dispensational theology in order to maintain the Israel-Church distinction, a distinction that has been in effect for nearly two millennia, a thousand years longer that the premillennialist’s earthly millennium.
Full Story » Replacement theology has become dispensationalism’s latest prophetic boogeyman. If you want to end a debate over eschatology, just charge your opponent with holding to replacement theology. What is “replacement theology,” sometimes called “supersessionism,” and why do dispensationalists accuse non-dispensationalists of holding it?
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