Were you a dispey?

[Ivan]

Can anyone else clarify what "camp" Baptists were in prior the post-Darby period?

This would indicate that Baptists "were" post-mil:

http://www.baptiststandard.com/1999/12_15/pages/endtimes.html

Take it for what it's worth.

 

[Scott Bushey]

I was of the Calvary Chapel ilk back in 1993

 

[inspector]

Josh, you have summed up exactly the journey I have taken. I was a flag waving dispensationalist, but had no idea exactly what that meant. When I became a Calvinist, I began to ask hard questions. John MacArthur, one of my heroes, was a teacher that I looked to for answers. I found none that satisified and began to question the whole dispensational system. It was about two years ago that my dispensational view of eschatology fell. It was one of the last dominos to tumble. As of this date, the only eschatological fact I will take a bullet for is His visible second coming. My eschatology is nebulus right now.

This is exactly where I stand right now. I have been settled with Calvinism since 94' but I struggle with eschatology.

 

[MrMerlin777]

Was a dispensationalist and an Old Landmarkist. I understood the systems pretty well, even so, they were complex and confusing systems to square with the plain message of the Holy Scriptures.

How I left it was fairly simple. Both of those systems just didn't square with the plain simple verbiage of the Scriptures. Letting the Scriptures speak for themselves was alot easier in my mind than trying to force it into these two systems of doctrine.

All that said, it was easier leaving Old Landmarkism than it was dispensationalism.

 

[pilgrim3970]

I was raised in the Assemblies of God so I was a Dispensational from childhood. I have vivd memories of a visiting lecturer stretching this huge chart of the endtiems across the front of the church.

It was actually a crazy Calvinist bookstore manager that not only exposed me to the reformed faith but also that there was something out there besides Dispensensationalism

I am now decidedly amillennial.

 

[Bandguy]

I was a Dispensational only because that was all that was ever taught to me. I never even knew there was any other view out there as a child. I am now a partial preterist.

 

[B.J.]

The year was 1988, and I was 11 years old. My family just got several thousand copies of "88 reasons why the rapture could be in 1988" by Edgar Whisenant, for distribution. I remember so vividly my grandmother reading me that book of glorious phophetic insight, and being sacred to death. The rapture was set....sometime on Sept.11-13 Jesus would split the Eastern sky.

I can remember being in school those days and not doing my school work. I figured why bother? Jesus would be back before 3rd period. Of course here we are in 2007. When I asked my grandmother why we were still here all the response I got was "well no man knows the hour!" Well thats convienant! Screw with a kids head, and then tell them you shouldnt have been guessing to begin with. Needless to say, Edgar released yet another book in 1989, and, thats right.....my grandmother bought it hook, line, and sinker again. But not me...not this time. As the old saying goes " you can shear a sheep many times, but you can skin him only once."

I was a professing atheist by the age of 19 due in large part to these absurdities that are rampent in Pentecostal churches. Alos it was because when I read the Bible I saw a different God than the one presented in my Assemblies of God church. I remeber asking in Sunday School if Judas was born a "mark", and the people told me I was on thin ice. They would say I was reading things into the text. It wasnt to much longer and I apostisized.

After a long a stint in "apostasy land" God brought me back into His fold. I returned to the same church for a short period. After a falling out over Hebrews 6:4 I vowed never to return. I didnt know what Reformed Theology was at the time, but I knew what I was reading in Scripture. Anyway, I am ranting.

By God's Grace I have seen the falsehoods of Distortionationalism...I mean Dispensationalism. In fact I "hate" Dispensationalism, but not Dispensationalist. So to answer the orignal question of the post....Yes, I use to be a Dispensational by default. It took 26 years to find out there is something else out there, and of course that would be Postmillenialism/Partail Preterist.

Next up for me is finding out if I am Paedo or credo.

 

[MrMerlin777]

Sounds kind of like Camping's 1994. .....Oh wait.... He's not dispey.