Opus 2026-127: Click Bait: Label Me

I recently was drawn in by Clickbait promising to define and clarify the differences between the five major branches of theology, and since it was only about eight minutes long, I figured I would risk the time.  They tried.  They came very far short of making it as clear as they claimed it was.

I find that I don’t know how to label myself when it comes to whether I am a covenant theologian or a replacement theologian or some other category that was not included.  Recently, I’ve been studying dispensationalism because of a friend who is a rabid dispensationlist and I find it totally inadequate.  But what label would I use?

I tend to be one of those people that will argue about just about anything.  Sometimes it’s a recreation and I get carried away, but there are other times when I am dead serious.  There are a lot of questions to every system because no system that I am aware of fits all of the scripture.  When a dispensationlist tells me that I have to interpret everything literally, I scratch my head and with an innocent expression on my face, ask, “Do you really believe that rivers clap their hands?  Do you really believe that God has feathers?  Do you really believe that the picture of the Lamb in Revelation has a whole bunch of eyes?”  Now to me these rhetorical questions.  They don’t deserve an answer.  All they do is point out the silly nature of some claims.

Take for instance the thing that we hear constantly. I  heard it again in the video I watched about how all of the different schools of theology agree on certain things.  In the explaining of the agreement they use the term, “faith alone”.  I’m sorry.  I don’t care if Augustine, Calvin, Luther, John, MacArthur, RC Sproll, and a room full of other theologians love the phrase.  The only place in the Bible the phrase is used is to say it is not by faith alone.

I hope you can see my problem.  If you can’t see my problem, then I guess you will have a label for me, “heretic”.  There is nothing wrong with a good label.

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