lsenders{at}hotmail.com wrote:
> The problem with such a conclusion is that it does not account for
the
> biblical record.  The Church Age is a parenthetical period.

I don't find that about "The Church Age" (whatever you mean by that) in
scripture. To me that "Church Age" stuff sounds more like your
denomination's doctrine than scripture.

> Israel
> does not accept the Kingdom offer of its Messiah.  However, the
promise
> cannot be nullified.  (Heb 6:17-18)  The covenants made is Israel,
> Mosaic excluded, were unconditional.  They labor with "I will" but
> never "if you will" as within the Mosaic.  Also, the covenants were
> national, not individual, in nature.  So for individuals to reject
the
> Messiah at His 1st advent, does not dismiss the national promise let
> alone its fulfillment.  This is part of the Pauline objection in Rom
> 9-11 to the inferred objector at the end of Rom 8.
>
> Yes, indeed, revelation is progressive.  However, the progressive
> nature of revelation does not discount the specificity of the
economic
> aspects within the Eternal Decree of God.
>
> When your view follows "as man better understood God, he better
> understood how God wanted him to act", it dismisses the central
> Protestant doctrine concerning the depravity of man.

I have known lots of people who as they understood God better, also
understood better how God wanted them to act.  Yes, there are some who
don't understand how God wants them to act when they are 40 years old
any more than they did when they were four years old. I have known one
or two who did not understand the Bible's teachings when they were 60
any better than they did when they were teenagers.  Not every man's
understanding of God evolves, some stagnate.


> Especially
> concerning eschatological themes, evolution is not the result of
> man-power, but rather the removal of "mystery."  Dan 12:9.  This
verse
> speaks of dispensational distinction, not evolution.  Man does not
> evolve into "superman" to borrow a philosophic phrase.  Rather, at
the
> moment of eschatological dispensation distinction, "we will be
changed
> in a twinkling of an eye."
>
> Philosophically and experientially, we are all dispensationist to one
> degree or another.  Thus Paul wrote, "When I was a child, I use to
> speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became
a
> man, I did away with childish things."  Our very lives are
> dispensational in character.  This is part and parcel of the
space/time
> continuum and our finite limitations.  [ Here I suggest you read,
> "Dimensions of Time" by Achtner, Junz & Walter]  To look back over
> one's life, he/she can easily distinquish the various dispensations
> within.  Simple ones would include living with parents, college
and/or
> military service, marriage, retirement, loss of one's mate, etc.
Each
> is a dispensation in life.  And as is in micro, so in the macro
economy
> of God's plan for the ages.  For there is no chance behind God.
>
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