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VIII. The plain teachings of all scriptures in general are denied and redefined by them.
Remarkably, many unscriptural things come from the scholarly Dallas Theological Seminary group. Sadly, the DTS prestige in the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's has become a standard of "orthodoxy" in this country. But no scriptures support their many teachings:
(1) NO scriptures teach that believers are a distinct group from disciples and people who accept His Lordship. They are one and the same at the new birth. These three terms all refer to the same born-again. All true believers are followers (disciples) of the Lord Jesus Christ. Either He is Lord of all or He is not Lord at all.1 DTS and their "scholars" have absolutely no scriptures to make the assertion that they can be different.
To assert this nonsense also, redefines Christ Himself as being in Salvation less than his Character and Godhead as Lord. This is heresy in itself and definitely in the category of a cult. And, as a cult, they also redefine all the words relating to salvation. So as any other cult, their preaching and teaching sounds all the world like the real gospel until you understand their private definitions, just like you must understand those of any other cult.
(2) NO scriptures for 1918 years were ever interpreted to indicate that there was such a thing as two kinds of Christians. "The 'carnal' Christian is ....characterized by a 'walk' that is on the same plane as that of the natural [unsaved] man," asserted Lewis Sperry Chafer when he was the first to propose this two class system of Christians in 1918 in his book, He that is Spiritual. As detailed at length in this article, this is one of the most damnable, pervasive, and extremely subtle of all of satan's lies. It denies or redefines most of the historic Christian doctrines and even the Nature of Christ Himself.
(3) NO scriptures indicate that repentance is not required for the new birth. And there are certainly scriptures that indicate that repentance is required and should be preached. And to assert that repentance is outdated and that this is proven by absence of this term in John's last writings or any other is a logical absurdity, not only in formal logic but in common sense, as shown by Ravenhill's comments on repentance.
To argue that the absence of a word in a gospel or epistle means that it is no longer a doctrine is truly remarkable for a DTS professor of theology. Silence is not proof, child simple logic. In the last epistle Paul wrote, 2 Timothy, there is no mention of sin, so I suppose Paul decided that was outdated too, or perhaps he received more enlightenment in his last days. Nor is sin mentioned in 2 John, 3 John, Jude, or Revelations. So, surely, we need not consider sin today.
The total delusional thoughts of these "grace" regardless preachers and teachers is remarkable. A truly remarkable phenomena in these last days of apostasy. Satan is doing a wonderous work of blinding in religious men's minds. It is called deductive reasoning fully explained in article, Hermeneutics.
(4) NO scriptures indicate that the day of the Lord (the Wrath of God) and the great tribulation are the same. And since there are none, take another look at all their verbiage (all Assumption Fallacies) about a pretribulation rapture. Also, try to read the scriptures without preconceived ideas, but as a little child would. Alas, for those who are influenced by prestige of the world system and the massive literature written by DTS supporters, this is difficult to do. Pretribulation rapture is not addressed in detail in this book, only that it is another dispensational New Age invention based and maintained by irrational deductive thinking.
(5) NO scriptures indicate that an unbeliever has faith. Indeed, there are scriptures that indicate that faith is only given to believers, and that ungodly and degenerate men do not possess faith. These New Age doctorates out of our major cemetaries today and for the past 85 years are the first to propose that all unregenerate men have faith.
(6) NO scriptures indicates that perseverance is not required. Perseverance has been required by the historic salvation doctrines of the church for the previous 1900 years. Every literal reading of the many many scriptures that clearly indicate the need for perseverance is reinterpreted by them, using their irrational deductive reasoning. This is the tall tail sign or the tail in mouth sign to those who have ears to hear. They assert without scriptural inference that all the perseverance scriptures refer to rewards and not to salvation. They maintain that the present tense verb of "believe" refers to a one-time past tense state which cannot change. This has been plainly demonstrated to be a lie. This also means that after a born again salvation by their thinking, Free-choice is taken away from a person
There is one unforgivable sin in the Bible, that of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Matt 12:31,32 and Mrk 3:29,30. No one argues this. Then we have scripture that says there is a sin that is unto death for a saved person. 1 John 5:16 The scriptures in Hebr 3:12-14, refer to a saved person developing a "and evil heart of unbelief"--the original lost dead state. 2
If this scripture does not refer to a saved person being lost then Free-choice is denied to a born- again person, and says that a "heart of unbelief" is not a lost state.3 There is no other alternative to such reasoning. I am not aware that DTS yet teaches BY PLAIN STATEMENTS that at salvation Free-choice is removed and that an "evil heart of unbelief" is not a lost state. But this is exactly what they should say if they continue to be irrationally consistent. Perhaps this will be the next development from their hallowed halls. Their writings do seem to strongly hint at this, already.
That their thinking is delusional and irrationally consistent has been established beyond doubt. It will be interesting to see what they will come out with next to further prepare us for the New Age of the One New World Order.
Again, these new teachings since 1920 coming out of Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) say that, "Nobody need persevere." There are no conditions, just accept the historical implications of the data about Christ and his promises and you get a noncancellable coupon for His free gift of Heaven, no need for perseverance, no commitment, no repentance, no Lordship, no conditions, just exercise the faith (trust) of any pagan, and, importantly, be assured of avoiding any persecution and suffering for your "faith" (of a pagan). No need to accept Him as Lord and no need to follow Him or His teachings in any way. . Once saved always saved regardless. This is a NEW AGE gospel, "another gospel," preparing us for these last days of antichrist. Modern "c"hristians will definitely worship the antichrist.
(7) No scriptures indicate that "the tribulation" and "the Wrath of God" are the same time period, and preceded by a rapture. Besides no definite human writings of support for this for over 1830 years till Darby's clear systematized teachings, there were three to five clear exceptions, until recent desparate searchings by modern Dispensationalist have found perhaps several more conflicting writings by individuals, vaguely indicating "a rapture" to occur at various and sundry prophetic times in their descriptions. And certainly none of them said that the tribulation from satan and the Wrath of God in the last days were a synonymous seven year time period and preceded by a rapture, as the modern Dispensationalists clearly and falsely teach.
There is NO recorded history from Christ for almost 1900 years that these rapture "doctrines" by Darby, Scofield, and Dallas Theological Cemetery (DTS) were believed or accepted by the churches in general, or for the most part even known by 99.9% of all Christians. All the churches that were not Amillennial, as the Calvinists, Lutherans, and Roman Catholics, believed in a rapture after a tribulation caused by satan, as Spurgeon and many others taught. Spurgeon and R.C. Ryle in 1860-80's, contemporaries of Darby's "new unheard of" teachings, ridiculed them openly and often.
Even Arthur W. Pink and Philip Mauro of the 1930's attest as to the previously unknown and modern date of origination of Dispensationalism in the early 1900's in this country. Arthur W. Pink wrote, "This modern method of mishandling the Scriptures --for modern it certainly is, being quite unknown to Christendom til little more than a centruy ago, and only within recent years being adopted by those who are outside the narrow circle where it originated.."4
Philip Mauro (famous patent lawyer | Supreme Court lawyer | prepared William Jennings Bryan's legal briefs which won the famous Tennesse Scopes trial of 1925) said, "For some of our readers a definition of modern dispensationalism will be a necessity.....One of the unhappiest of the results of this violent wrenching of the "things the angels desire to look into" from the place to which the word of God assigns them, is that "the Kingdom of God" in its entirety, including "the gospel of the Kingdom" (Mat. 24:14; Acts 20: 25; 28:31) has been transferred bodily from this present age, and "postponed" to an hypothetical and mythical "dispensation" yet to come. This surely is a matter of such importance as to demand the most earnest attention of every saint of God; for it does violence to both the Old Testament and the New."5
In the Introduction to his The Gospel of the Kingdom (1927), Phiip Mauro wrote, "THROUGH an incident of recent occurrence I was made aware of the extent--far greater than I had imagined--to which the modern system of dispensationalism has found acceptance amongst orthodox christians; and also of the extent--correspondingly great--to which the recently published "Scofield Bible" (which is the main vehicle of the new system of doctrine referred to) has usurped the place of authority that belongs to God's Bible alone."
The fact is that dispensationalism is modernism. It is modernism, moreover, of a very pernicious sort, such that it must have a "Bible" of its own for the propagation of its peculiar doctrines, since they are not in the Word of God. Ample proof of this will be given in the pages that follow."
There are to my knowledge several exceptions to this absence of any pretrib teachings, as there are exceptions to most any rule in man's affairs. A Pseudo-Ephraim in the third century has an extant papyrus stating his proposition of a pretib rapture. A respected Baptist preacher in 1742-1744, named Morgan Edwards of Philadelphia, who founded Brown University, published a book concerning his proposal of a pretrib rapture. And lastly, a Jesuit Priest named Emmanuel Lacunza in 1812 wrote a book entitled Messiah in Glory and Majesty in which he proposed a pretrib rapture. These writings mentioning a pretrib rapture are the few clear instances among the mass of writings and peoples thru the centuries from the time of Christ.
Several other men, who wrote about a rapture to occur at various and sundry prophetic times in the future, were a Brother Dolcino, before 1307, a Peter Jureu in 1607, Philip Dodderidge in 1738, John Gill in 1748, a Macknight in 1763, Thomas Scott in 1792, Thomas Collier in 1674, and a John Asgill in 1700. The Dispensationalists point to these and others when they can find even a mention of rapture, as though it is of some bearing on the issue.
As explained in the article, Hermeneutics, if you accept the Fallacies of thinking as they have done, you can be made to believe anything--and finding even ten or fifty people through the centuries to have stated there is a rapture --establishes nothing as scriptural doctrine. These agree very little on the timing or any particulars. It is called memorizing unfounded assertions and desparately grasping any support of it. This is called brainwashing in schools of Theology, or deductive thinking in respectable circles. These men of DTS would die for their beliefs, just as a communist or socialist or a Muslim or a Catholic or those of cults. They all exist on the basis of learned deductive thinking, pure assertions of men in modern Theology schools.
Now, for the first time in history, after these teachings in this country from out of The Scofield Bible since 1909, and Dallas Theological Cemetery since 1920, we can have and probably do have our "Christian" churches occupied with practicing satanists today. They could whole-heartedly subscribe to and even preach this New Age Fundamentalism of dispensational "grace" regardless in all deceit. Truly a New Age mystery of iniquity, functioning and being supported by New Age Fundamentalists. And decent hard working Americans leave the religious things to the clergy and their high learned Cemeteries. Are we developing the coming apostasy? It's spirit and obvious workings are already here among us in full bloom for all to wonder after. If they would only be able to open their eyes. Witness the NEW AGE Contemplative Spirituality (nothing but Hindu Yoga) which Charles Swindol, former President of Dallas Theological Cemetery, highly promotes in writings as the best way to experience God; and the extremely popular Emergent Church movement of great mystical absurdities. The so-called christian people today have gone insane.
Homosexuality is promoted by our government, and sexual practices and homosexuality is approvingly taught in grade schools. And the government prevents protests. Dear folks, we only have a few years left.
New Age Fundamentalism is its' name. Deductive reasoning is its game.
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