Showing posts with label postmil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label postmil. Show all posts

Friday, October 20, 2023

The Postmillennial Vendetta Against Dispensationalism

Re-posting this. Over the years I've noted that "squeaky wheels" demand to be noticed, but often get all sentimental and sensitive when their views are confronted. I'm seeing this play out on X (Twitter) where one fellow (Greg Thornberg) who appears to have done some homework is responding to postmil-theonomy. The more elder-avuncular proponents are chastising him for misrepresenting and misunderstanding their position. Where have I heard that before? This is classic evasion stuff. Anyway, it's a shame they don't chide their own folk.

From Peter Goeman...

Many postmillennialists spurn dispensationalism because they view dispensationalism as standing in the way of cultural reformation. As a case in point, here is a recent comment that up-and-coming postmillennialist, Joel Webbon, posted about the need for Christian involvement in artificial intelligence. Although the tweet was about Christians leading in innovation, Webbon somehow managed to work in his dislike for dispensationalism...continue reading

Monday, December 13, 2021

It's not cool to be a Dispensationalist

I've linked to this before and it never gets old for me. Dan Phillips...

It's just not "cool" to be dispensationalist, anymore.

The system had particular prominence in the seventies and beyond, which excited a lot of envy and resentment among the non's ("Hey, what about us?"). So they produced a lot of sourpuss, wanna-be literature, trying to take back every area that dispensational writers had held.

They haven't fully succeeded. This really irritates them, because many of them still think that dispensationalists are unsophisticated knuckle-draggers at best, or heretics at worst. It's like listening to evolutionists talk about the Great Unwashed, who they see as too stupid to agree with them, still boneheadedly clinging to inane creationistic notions. They alternate between sniffing in disdain, and wondering why their outreaches fail to penetrate their foes' Stygian darkness...keep reading

See also When Eschatology becomes Annoying