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Romans 11: 25-26 As Major Recurrent Issue and Dispensationalism
Posted : 23 Feb, 2012 01:36 PM
Romans 11: 25-26 As A Recurrent Big Issue, and Dispensationalism
Romans 11: 25-26 says "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be
ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in.
26. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall
come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob:"
Is this a prophecy saying that sometime in the future all Israel,
meaning all Jews, or all living then, or some of those living at that
time will be saved as those under the influence of John Darby, C.I.
Scofield, Lewis S. Chafer and others of dispensationalism have said?
Or, do we interpret Romans 11: 25-26 by other scripture? How many can
identity those other relevant scriptures?
What does dispensationalism say, and especially what are its starting
assumptions?
On http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1981/May/the-essence-of-dispensationalism
they say ".......dispensationalism is rooted in Darby's concept of
the church--a concept that sharply distinguishes the church from
Israel." Darby conceived the idea that the church was not prophesied
in the Old Testament. Therefore he began to teach a future hope for
Israel outside the church..."
John Darby is known as the founder of dispensationalism.
Charles C. Ryrie (born 1925) says:"basic promise of Dispensationalism
is two purposes of God expressed
in the formation of two peoples who maintain their distinction
throughout eternity." Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today,1966, pp.44-45
In his book, Dispensationalism (1966), Charles Ryrie says "The
essence of Dispensationalism, then, is the distinction between Israel
and the church."(page 3, "Dispensationalism")
J. Dwight Pentecost is another dispensationalist theologian who in
his book Things To Come ( 1965) says "The church and Israel are two
distinct groups with whom God has a divine plan. The church is a
mystery, unrevealed in the Old Testament. This mystery program must be
completed before God can resume His program with
Israel and bring it to completion. These considerations all arise from
a literal method of interpretation." (page 193, J. Dwight Pentecost,
Things To Come, Zondervan, 1965).
In 1936, Lewis S. Chafer, a classical dispensationalist, defined
Scofield's literalism as "The outstanding characteristic of the
dispensationalist is ... that he believes every statement of the Bible
and gives to it the plain, natural meaning its words imply."
From: L. S. Chafer, 'Dispensationalism,' Bibliotheca Sacra, 93,
October (1936), pp410, 417.
Following their belief that the Bible must be interpreted in a literal
way, for dispensationalits Israel in scripture must always mean
physical Israel, the physical descendants of Abraham.
So dispensationalism as a man made system of Bible interpretation
starts from, or postulates two main beginning assumptions, that God
has two separate and different peoples, physical Israel, or the Jews,
and the church. The second major postulate is that the Bible must be
interpreted in a literal way, not by metaphor, or similitudes.
What is a postulate? On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom they teach
that "In traditional logic, an axiom or postulate is a proposition
that is not and cannot be proven within the system based on them.
Axioms define and delimit the realm of analysis. In other words, an
axiom is a logical statement that is assumed to be true. Therefore,
its truth is taken for granted within the particular domain of
analysis, and serves as a starting point for deducing and inferring
other (theory and domain dependent) truths."
But postulation of starting principles for a system of thought is not
limited to logic or math. A theory in almost any field can begin with
postulates, starting propositions that are not proved, but taken to be
true.
Secondly, what the classical dispensationalists - John Darby, C.I.
Scofield, Lewis S. Chafer - assumed or postulated as starting
principles of their system of interpretation are like a taxonomy.
A taxonomy is the procedure for identifying and naming species in
biology, and arranging them into a classification. A taxonomy is a
particular classification scheme created by some individual or group.
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy they say that a taxonomy is
"A field of science (and major component of systematics) that
encompasses description, identification, nomenclature, and
classification."
But taxonomy is not limited to biology and is not necessary based upon
scientific data.
"Almost anything--animate objects, inanimate objects, places, concepts,
events, properties, and relationships--may be classified according to
some taxonomic scheme. Taxonomies of the more generic kinds of things
typically stem from philosophical investigations. Starting with the
work of Aristotle in his work 'Categories' several philosophers,
especially ontologists, arranged generic categories (also called types
or classes) in a hierarchy that more or less satisfy the criteria for
being a true taxonomy."
"Taxonomy, or categorization, in the human cognition has been a major
area of research in psychology. Social psychologists have sought to
model the manner in which the human mind categorizes social stimuli
(Self-categorization theory is a prototypical example). Some have
argued that the adult human mind naturally organizes its knowledge of
the world into such systems."
Dispensationalism creates a taxonomy by saying that God has two distinct groups of peoples, all physical Israel, and the church, and it says Israel must always be physical Israel in scripture and never anyone else.
Lets look at Bloom's Taxonomies in education as an example. And, in
fact, using Bloom's Taxonomies here goes beyond seeing them as an
example. This is because Bloom's Taxonomies have been highly
influential upon the Public School and University level educational
system in the United States - and it can be identified as the starting
points of a system of education which has tended to diminish absolute
truths and absolute morality of Christianity, and has tended to
emphasize feelings more than teaching people to think.
So, if a Christian has difficulty in understanding that
dispensationalism has set up a self-fulfilling system for interpreting
Romans 11: 25-26 to be a prophecy for the salvation of "All Israel"
sometime in the future, and not a statement saying that since all who
are saved belong to Israel reborn in Christ, it could be due to the
American educational system.
Why must Israel always be physical Israel in scripture in every verse
in which it appears?
Dispensationalism starts by postulating that Israel must always be
physical Israel, and not born again Israel after the Cross and the Day
of Pentecost? Why must it be assumed that Israel cannot be Israel for
those saved in Jesus Christ, but the Body of Christ must be the
"church."
Since dispensationalism starts by assuming Israel must always be
physical Israel, and never that small Remnant Paul mentions in Romans
11: 5, the Jews who did accept Christ, plus many non-Jews who have
been born again in Christ, then Romans 11: 26, "All Israel shall be
saved" must be a prophecy saying all or a great many Jews will be
saved sometime in the future.
Was Paul just exaggerating or using hyperbole in saying All Israel
shall be saved? Not likely. In fact, this statement, that all Israel
shall be saved, is an indication that Romans 11: 26 is not a prophecy,
but just a statement saying that because everyone is saved who belongs
to that one fold of Jesus Christ (John 10: 16, "...and there shall be
one fold, and one shepherd") and because in scripture Israel is the
only group mentioned being God's people, therefore "All Israel shall
be saved."
Bloom's Taxonomies is the starting points of the new system of
education in America, following transformational Marxism, which got
its foot in the door at the University of California at Berkeley in
1950 with Theodor Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality. That new
educational system does not teach its students to think, and it
clearly challenges absolute truths and morality, and is opposed to
Christianity and the Family. It takes the dialectic procedure of
attitude and belief change in Marxism, as developed by psychologists
in the encounter group movement and before in Group Dynamics and uses
it to transform the educational goals and what is taught to students.
And - the preference for "Byte Speak" by people, including in Internet
forums is one result of the transformational Marxist educational
system under Bloom's goals.
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_Taxonomy they say "Bloom's
Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education
proposed in 1956 by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom
who also edited the first volume of the standard text, Taxonomy of
educational objectives: the classification of educational goals."
"Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three "domains":
Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor (sometimes loosely described as
knowing/head, feeling/heart and doing/hands respectively). "
On http://authorityresearch.co/2010-01%20A%20precis%20of%20Blooms%20Taxonomy.htm
Dean Gotcher says "The Taxonomy is used to map the room, used to
determine which teachers and students are progressively becoming
socialist, i.e. becoming liberated within their thoughts and the
actions (anathema to obedience to authority), i.e. classified as
"higher order thinking skills," and which ones are not participating
in the programmed process of 'change' (continuing to hold to a
traditional, top-down, patriarchal paradigm of obedience to parents
and God), i.e. classified as "lower order thinking skills."
Curriculum is used to shape the classroom experience in order to
either initiate, sustain, or change the children's thoughts and
actions. By changing the curriculum. You change the children. You
change the world. The change in culture, along with the language or
means of communication which initiates and sustains it, can be
accomplished by restructuring the classroom environment from the
preaching and teaching of truth and facts, i.e. where the classroom
curriculum sustains a patriarchal paradigm, i.e. engenders respect for
authority, to a classroom environment of dialoguing opinions, i.e.
where the classroom curriculum initiates and sustains a hereiarchal
paradigm of 'change,' i.e. engenders a revolutionary attitude towards
(or disrespect of) authority. There is no other 'drive' and 'purpose'
for the use of the Taxonomies than the destruction (annihilation) of
the traditional family system, i.e. the system which engenders
sovereignty, property rights, inalienable rights, states rights,
limited government, and nationalism, all of the "old" world
order....."
"As Satan came between the "children" (the created), in the garden in
Eden, and God (the creator), so this process does the same between the
parents and their children, being the same process as defined in
Genesis 3:1-6, the dialectic process--where "value" (worth) becomes
based upon sensuousness, i.e. in self-justification, i.e. in the
"theory and practice" of carnal man, i.e. in his "feelings,"
"thoughts," and "actions," i.e. in "questioning authority," instead of
in righteousness, i.e. in the Word of the Lord God Himself (or the
commands of the parents), requiring an environment of faith, belief,
obedience, and chastening--that curriculum which is of the "old"
school, i.e. of the "old" world order. "
Then Dean Gotcher focuses in on what Benjamin Bloom's system of
educational goal taxonimies is all about and its ideological origins
in what has been called political correctness, cultural Marxism or
Transformational Marxism. He says " As Theodor Adorno explained it,
in his book The Authoritarian Personality (which Bloom uses as his
"Weltanschauung" to develop his "taxonomy"): "God is conceived more
directly after a parental image and thus as a source of support and as
a guiding and sometimes punishing authority." "The conception of the
ideal family situation for the child [is]: 1) uncritical obedience to
the father and elders, 2) pressures directed unilaterally from above
to below, 3) inhibition of spontaneity and 4) emphasis on conformity
to externally imposed values." ". . . personality is a product of the
social environment of the past . . . very resistant to fundamental
change." "The inability to identify with humanity takes the political
form of nationalism." "It would then be more understandable why the
German family, with its long history of authoritarian, threatening
father figures, could become susceptible to a fascist ideology." "
Theodor W. Adorno in his 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality,
says that Christianity and the family are the causes of the
authoritarian personality and of fascism, and that Christianity must
be weakened or destroyed, along with the family. Bloom's Taxonomies
are the blueprint, the starting point, the postulates of educational
goals in America to transform the culture of the nation through
transformational or non-violent Marxism, so that absolute truth and
absolute morality are questioned and replaced by the dialectic - "lets
talk about it," "lets arrive at a group consensus," "how do you feel
about it."
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