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Dave Hunt · Biblical polemic · 2002
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The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…h that the life of the flesh is in the blood and that God has given it upon the altar for atonement. Hebrews then distinguishes the sacrifices that could not take away sins from Christ’s effective offering of Himself. Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:12–14; Hebrews 10:1–14. The biblica…
Read article →The Scales and the Cross
Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
A fair comparison of the Islamic scales of judgement with the Christian gospel of substitution, imputed righteousness, and assurance in Christ.
Read article →Two Revelations of Divine Love
What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
A careful comparison of how the Qur'an and the New Testament describe divine love, mercy, holiness, and God's action toward the guilty.
Read article →Daniel's Seventieth Week and the New Testament Tribulation
Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…t's first coming is indispensable to their fulfilment. The cross made the only sufficient atonement for iniquity. Nothing in a futurist reading suggests that His sacrifice was incomplete or that a later work must supplement it. Yet the programme is decreed upon Israel and Jerusal…
Read article →Defending Dispensationalism
Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…blood never finally removed sin, and no future ritual could add to Christ's accomplished atonement (Hebrews 10:1–14). Any interpretation that makes millennial offerings another means of salvation must be rejected. Dispensational interpreters do not all explain Ezekiel identicall…
Read article →Have Evangelicals Become Neo-Gnostics?
History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…doctrinal judgment, again no. Evangelical affirmations of the good Creator, incarnation, atonement, bodily resurrection, public Scripture, historical gospel, visible church, ordinances, and renewed creation contradict essential Gnostic structures. Dispensationalism's earthly kin…
Read article →Isaac, Not Ishmael
The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…t in a thicket. Abraham was not consciously expounding the complete Christian doctrine of atonement. Nevertheless, the canonical answer to Isaac's question reaches beyond the mountain. John the Baptist sees Jesus and declares: "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of…
Read article →No Holy Land? Covenant Discipline, Gentile Blessing, and Israel's Future
A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…acrifice. The Levitical system cannot be revived as a competing or supplementary means of atonement. But Hebrews 8 does not say that the Abrahamic covenant has become obsolete. It does not revoke the Davidic covenant or expressly cancel Israel's territorial promises. To move from…
Read article →The Daniel Dilemma
The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…for him. We should therefore not make this one English phrase bear the entire doctrine of atonement. Scripture establishes substitution clearly elsewhere: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; an…
Read article →The King, Zion and the Coming Kingdom: Reading Isaiah 32–35 Across the Prophetic Horizon
The near was real. The far is still coming.
…ge or danger. It does not, by itself, specify a payment mechanism or explain the means of atonement. The verb translated “shall return” is from shûb. Although that verb can describe turning in other contexts, here it stands beside coming to Zion and travelling upon a prepared hig…
Read article →The New Testament Is a Very Jewish Story
Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…mains. Christianity confesses Jesus as divine, worships Him, proclaims His crucifixion as atonement, releases Gentiles from circumcision and dietary law, and gathers a multinational Church. Rabbinic Judaism rejects those claims. Does calling the New Testament Jewish blur a real a…
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