Today, Dec 8, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM KVFD TV Live John MacArthur is a widely known and popular Evangelical preacher. He preaches a literal interpretation of the Bible, a literal nation of Israel to be restored in the future, a literal kingdom of God on the earth, a literal tribulation and a literal return of Jesus and a literal rapture. In other words, his theology is the opposite of covenant theology, or replacement theology, where the God of Israel has no place for Israel, no kingdom in the future, and spiritualizes Christian prophecy, rather than taking it literally. This major division in Christian theology goes back for centuries, but weve seen its modern manifestation in the emergence of fulfillment theology, which is opposed to Christian Zionism, and takes a form of Christian Anti-Zionism, leading not only to a liberal theology, where God has completed his dealings with man in Christ and has now turned his work over to man to finish, but also leading to a union of all religions, opposing any belief in religious exclusivity, which it characterizes as bigotry. Thus, the Christian dispensationalists like John MacArthur oppose the ecumenism of the Catholic Church, and the so-called Chrislam of American Evangelicals, and the Palestinianism of mainline protestantism, while Christian non-dispensationalists favor all these things and more. Both sides claim that the Bible supports their theology and doesnt support that of their opponents, and both sides provide many Bible-based arguments in support of their positions. However, what the argument boils down to, in the final analysis, is that God has either forsaken his promises to the nation of Israel or he hasnt. Non-dispensationalists say he has forsaken them, and that the Christian Church has replaced Israel in terms of a future kingdom, while dispensationalists say God will yet restore the kingdom to Israel, and Christians will reign over it with Christ, in the coming millennium of peace. What both sides have in common, however, is the conviction that Mormonism isn’t even a player. Far from being the work of God, in restoring the kingdom to Israel, in these latter days, Mormonism is of the devil. Join us as we discuss it on this episode of The Controversies of Zion. tinyurl/l48k3c2
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:26:33 +0000
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