9.16.2004
My wife is awesome. She has provided me with an office supply of gummy dinos, sour gummy worms, honey roasted peanuts and granola bars. Work is going well!
A recent criticism I have received is that I am embracing a reformed system of theology because I have "deducted" it from books of men (as opposed to a supposed "inductive" method.) It has become obvious to me through my study of Dispensationalism, however, that no one could ever hold to that view without being taught it. It is not something that a new Christian would rationally develop as they are reading through the Holy Scriptures. My present view of Scripture was developed as a result of my years of reading the Word (inductively, as they would say, because that is the natural way) as a growing child of God. I read reformed books as a result of my conclusions, not as an impetus to them. One must stretch to learn the teachings of men they admire or respect in order to embrace a teaching such as dispensationalism. Just my take on the issue.
A recent criticism I have received is that I am embracing a reformed system of theology because I have "deducted" it from books of men (as opposed to a supposed "inductive" method.) It has become obvious to me through my study of Dispensationalism, however, that no one could ever hold to that view without being taught it. It is not something that a new Christian would rationally develop as they are reading through the Holy Scriptures. My present view of Scripture was developed as a result of my years of reading the Word (inductively, as they would say, because that is the natural way) as a growing child of God. I read reformed books as a result of my conclusions, not as an impetus to them. One must stretch to learn the teachings of men they admire or respect in order to embrace a teaching such as dispensationalism. Just my take on the issue.
