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Originally Posted by KWSS1976
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I think Reckhart's biggest beef w/ Segraves are his past views of dispensationalism ...
http://jesus-messiah.com/apologetics...ortations.html
It's become apparent that DS is re-looking at the fallacies of dispensationalism ... He goes as far as possibly looking at replacing it.
Read his conclusion in this recent paper:
Conclusion
Since dispensationalism did not originate in a Pentecostal milieu, since it
eliminates ecclesiology from the Old Testament – and in some cases even from portions
of the New Testament, and since it readily lends itself to cessationism, we are back to the
question of dispensationalism’s usefulness for Oneness Pentecostal theology. In the final
analysis, dispensationalism is a hermeneutical system. Is it compatible with Oneness
Pentecostal theology? In his work quoted at the outset of this paper, David Bernard
wrote, “[i]t appears that Oneness Pentecostals must significantly modify or replace
traditional dispensationalism to maintain logically, consistently, and successfully the
doctrines of the new birth and holiness of life.”38 In a more recent work, Bernard
declares that “traditional dispensationalism must be significantly modified to be
compatible with Apostolic theology.”39 How significant must this modification be? To
what extent can dispensationalism be modified and still be accurately described as
dispensationalism? Is there any need for Oneness Pentecostal theology to retain the label
of dispensationalism? Is modification enough, or should dispensationalism be replaced
altogether? If so, with what?
From the perspective of this writer, it is time for Oneness Pentecostals to think
seriously about the possibility of a hermeneutical methodology that arises from the first
century apostolic use of Scripture. The restorationist impulse of Oneness Pentecostals
must extend beyond experience and even beyond recovery of selected texts to a fullorbed
return to the hermeneutical methodology of our apostolic forbears.
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I have to agree that it eliminates the OT out of ecclesiology ... and that's what drives me crazy about it.
Is it compatible with Oneness Pentecostal theology? WOW.
In many ways it's been the backbone.
This has huge ramifications in the eschatological, soteriological arenas also.
We're looking at change IN THE FACE.