Saturday, December 22, 2007

THE RAPTURE, THE GiFTS, LiMiTED ATONEMENT, and iNFANT BAPTiSM.

These four doctrines are primarily derived from logical implications of exegesis rather than from strict exegetical labor itself.
  1. premillennial pre-tribulational rapture
  2. cessation of the gifts [signs, wonders]
  3. limited atonement
  4. paedo- [infant] baptism
Furthermore, these are usually the doctrines that cause division. If fellowship is broken between believers over these issues, then the lenses with which they are reading the Scriptures are near-sighted and out of focus. One must keep in mind that it was never St Paul's or St John's intention to teach systematic theology, but instead to elaborate on the manifold ways in which God was keeping His promises in Jesus. This truth is the backbone for our systematics.

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