I just reread most of the first 50 posts of this thread. It is a master class on the power of paradigm. Dave is completely blind to everything RightDivider was saying. Totally and completely blind to it. So much so that it feels intentional but I doubt that it is. Dave has a lifetime of teaching that has trained his mind to filter scripture through a particular lens. Luckily, its the near opposite lens to what someone like Idolater filters the scripture through. At least Dave reads the words of Jesus and finds a way to hear Paul's teaching (i.e. grace). Idolater reads Paul and hears Moses!
As Mid-Acts Dispensationalists, we can read Moses, Jesus, Paul and James and take them all to mean just what they seem to say without the need to interpret them to mean something else. That single fact effortlessly resolves so many biblical issues. Why that isn't persuasive, I don't know. But it isn't in all but the rarest of cases. Paradigm shifts are the hardest thing there is to achieve in others.
As Mid-Acts Dispensationalists, we can read Moses, Jesus, Paul and James and take them all to mean just what they seem to say without the need to interpret them to mean something else. That single fact effortlessly resolves so many biblical issues. Why that isn't persuasive, I don't know. But it isn't in all but the rarest of cases. Paradigm shifts are the hardest thing there is to achieve in others.
