As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Roughly 200 Christian leaders gathered at West Houston Bible Church on Monday through Wednesday of this week for the annual Chafer Theological Seminary Pastors’ Conference.
The theme this year was “Critical Issues for Understanding the Old Testament Text.” The keynote speakers were Dr. Randall Price (president, World of the Bible Ministries), Dr. Douglas Petrovich (professor, Brookes Bible College) and Henry Smith (Associates for Biblical Research).
The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry will present its annual Look Up virtual Bible prophecy conference next weekend — Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11.
The theme this year is “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Bible,” and it deals with a number of questions related to eschatology.
The conference is free for all to participate and will remain available to rewatch until March 24. Registration is required at lookupfoi.org.
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In an article at TableTalk Stephen G. Myers writes,
Covenant theology seeks to use the biblically prominent covenants to inform our knowledge of God and of His work. Specifically, covenant theology contends that God has been working throughout history to gather His people to Himself through covenantal relationship.
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12. CT is implicitly supercessionist in its eschatology.
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11. CT interprets the Bible from an anthropocentric rather than a Theocentric point of view.
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10. CT reads Christ into passages where He is plainly not in view and employs Him (particularly His first coming) as the lens through which Scripture must be understood.
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9. Though they would consciously deny the charge, it is undeniable that CT ‘s way of reading the Bible (as above) creates a major problem philosophically in that it strongly implies that God equivocates. More seriously still, the manner of equivocation means that equivocation belongs to the essential nature of the Godhead.
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8. CT thus interprets the Bible with different rules of hermeneutics depending on the aforementioned presuppositions.
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