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 Biblical Dispensationalism is also known as **//Theocratic Covenantal Dispensationalism//**. It is the recognition of separated, distinct, and self-evident economies in biblical history that are established through the biblical covenants, and which all form part of the unifying theme of the Bible: The Kingdom.
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+I order to learn about all of this, I want to put together an introductory study of the Bible and its structure as a unified whole. That means I want to study out a "biblical theology," like Walter Kaiser described:
-====== Self-Evident ======
+>Biblical theology is the quest for the big picture or the theological wholeness and the overview that brings out the unity, the plan, the cohesiveness, and the purpose of God as that plan moves through the course of history.
-**Dispensationalism is Self-Evident:** {{ :12_moadis:dispensationalism_is_self-evident.pdf |notes}}
+But unlike so many of the "scholarly" biblical theologies out there, I want a "biblical" biblical theology--a biblical theology based on the Bible.
-**Thesis:** Dispensationalism, as a system of theology, is self-evident to the normal reader of Scripture.
+And that's why I started with the first study below: **//What is the Bible...?//**
-**Outline:**
+^  Study  ^  Links  ^
-  - What is a System of Theology?
+| **What is the Bible?** ||
-  - Hermeneutics: The Essential, Independent Basis for Theology
+| 1. The Bible is a Covenant Corpus | {{ :12_moadis:001_what_is_the_bible_1_covenant_corpus.odt |odt}}, {{ :12_moadis:001_what_is_the_bible_1_covenant_corpus.pdf |pdf}}, audio1, audio1 |
-  - Normal-Literal Interpretation: The Essental Part of Dispensationalism
+| 2. The Bible is Authoritative | {{ :12_moadis:002_what_is_the_bible_2_authoritative.odt | odt}}, {{ :12_moadis:002_what_is_the_bible_2_authoritative.pdf | pdf}}, audio |
-  - Self-Evidence: Dispensationalism is a Self-Evident System of Theology
+| 3. The Bible is Accessible | odt, pdf, audio |
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-====== Soteriology ======
+===== What is the Bible? =====
-**Dispensationalism & Soteriology: Israel vs. the Church**
+What is the Bible's "formal character," it's "nature"? What //__**is**__// it? Is it a religious book? Is it a history book? Is it a self-help book ("chicken soup for your soul")? Is it a love letter? Is it a book of Jewish myths and maxims?
-  * {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church.pdf |notes}} | {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church_handout.pdf |handout}} | {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church.mp3?linkonly |audio}}
-  * {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church_1.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard1}} | {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church_2.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard2}} | {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church_3.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard3}}
-Was an individual Israelite in the Old Testament saved the same way as you? Was he saved in the same time frame as you? Was he guaranteed the same things as you? Was his salvation conditioned the same as yours?
+==== The Bible is a Covenant Corpus ====
-> Scripture is unintelligible until one can distinguish clearly between God's program for his earthly people Israel and that for the church. ~J. Dwight Pentecost
+**Notes:** {{ :12_moadis:001_what_is_the_bible_1_covenant_corpus.odt |odt}}, {{ :12_moadis:001_what_is_the_bible_1_covenant_corpus.pdf |pdf}}
-**Thesis:** Israel and the Church are different and distinct in God's plan and purpose for the ages, and this distinction is clearly seen in the differences in their soteriology and resulting eschatology.
+A corpus is a large collection of writings of a specific kind or on a specific subject.
+  * The Bible is a collection of writings of a specific kind (covenantal) and on a specific subject (covenants; specifically, covenants between God and His moral creatures).
+  * The Bible is a covenant corpus; it is a body, a collection of covenants.
+  * This is the nature of the Bible: covenant. This is the formal character of the Bible: covenant.
-**Conclusion:** Dispensationalism is a system of theology that consistently recognizes and maintains the biblical distinction between Israel and the Church (as is seen in the dispensational analysis of each people's soteriology and eschatology).
+In this study we answer the question (What is the Bible?) by drawing attention to two specific aspects of Scripture:
+  - The Two Testaments
+  - The Eight Major Covenants
-> These systems do set up conflicting and opposing principles; but since these difficulties appear only when an attempt is made to coalesce systems, elements, and principles which God has separated, the conflicts really do not exist at all outside these unwarranted unifying efforts; in fact they rather demonstrate the necessity of a due recognition of all God's different and distinct administrations. The true unity of the Scriptures is not discovered when one blindly seeks to fuse these opposing principles into one system, but rather it is found when God's plain differences are observed. The dispensationalist does not create these differences as he is sometimes accused of doing... Instead of creating the problems, the dispensationalist is the one who has a solution for them. ~Lewis Sperry Chafer
+==== The Bible is an Authoritative Covenant Corpus ====
+**Notes:** {{ :12_moadis:002_what_is_the_bible_2_authoritative.odt | odt}}, {{ :12_moadis:002_what_is_the_bible_2_authoritative.pdf | pdf}}
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+The Bible, because of its nature and formal character as a divine covenant corpus, is authoritative. It is God's final authority over man, given to change man's conduct.
+  - The Bible is authoritative in its origin: The words of Scripture are inspired by God.
+  - The Bible is authoritative in its purpose: God inspired Scripture to govern us.
+Scripture, as a covenant corpus, confronts us with God's absolute and final authority over us and our lives as the subjects living in the Kingdom He created.
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+==== An Accessible Covenant Corpus ====
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-====== Dispensationalism ======
-Biblical Dispensationalism is also known as **//Theocratic Covenantal Dispensationalism//**. It is the recognition of separated, distinct, and self-evident economies in biblical history that are established through the biblical covenants, and which all form part of the unifying theme of the Bible: The Kingdom.
+b/c
+Scripture is God's inspired words you can hold in your hand... and this is what I aim to study
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-====== Self-Evident ======
+===== Self-Evident =====
-**Dispensationalism is Self-Evident:** {{ :09_topical:disp_dispensationalism_is_self-evident.pdf |notes}}
+**Dispensationalism is Self-Evident:** {{ :12_moadis:dispensationalism_is_self-evident.pdf |notes}}
 **Thesis:** Dispensationalism, as a system of theology, is self-evident to the normal reader of Scripture.
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-====== Soteriology ======
+===== Soteriology =====
 **Dispensationalism & Soteriology: Israel vs. the Church**
-  * {{ :09_topical:disp_soteriology_israel_vs_church.pdf |notes}} | {{ :09_topical:disp_soteriology_israel_vs_church_handout.pdf |handout}} | {{ :09_topical:disp_soteriology_israel_vs_church.mp3?linkonly |audio}}
+  * {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church.pdf |notes}} | {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church_handout.pdf |handout}} | {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church.mp3?linkonly |audio}}
-  * {{ :09_topical:disp_soteriology_israel_vs_church_1.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard1}} | {{ :09_topical:disp_soteriology_israel_vs_church_2.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard2}} | {{ :09_topical:disp_soteriology_israel_vs_church_3.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard3}}
+  * {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church_1.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard1}} | {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church_2.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard2}} | {{ :12_moadis:soteriology_israel_vs_church_3.jpg?linkonly |whiteboard3}}
 Was an individual Israelite in the Old Testament saved the same way as you? Was he saved in the same time frame as you? Was he guaranteed the same things as you? Was his salvation conditioned the same as yours?
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 > These systems do set up conflicting and opposing principles; but since these difficulties appear only when an attempt is made to coalesce systems, elements, and principles which God has separated, the conflicts really do not exist at all outside these unwarranted unifying efforts; in fact they rather demonstrate the necessity of a due recognition of all God's different and distinct administrations. The true unity of the Scriptures is not discovered when one blindly seeks to fuse these opposing principles into one system, but rather it is found when God's plain differences are observed. The dispensationalist does not create these differences as he is sometimes accused of doing... Instead of creating the problems, the dispensationalist is the one who has a solution for them. ~Lewis Sperry Chafer
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+===== Etymology of Economy =====
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+Four times in the English New Testament the word "dispensation" appears (1Cor 9.17; Eph 1.10; Eph 3.2; Col 1.25) and it is always a translation of the Greek word //oikonomia//, a word very similar to our English word “economy.”
+That shouldn't surprise us since the English word "economy" is derived from the Greek //oikonomia//. In Greek //oikos// means house and //nemein// means manage. Together //oikos// + //nemein// (house + manage) form //oikonomia// and it refers to household management (the managing of the resources and/or affairs of a household) as a servant or steward would manage the household affairs of his master ([[http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=etymology+of+the+word+economy|link]]).
+The English word "economy" means the same thing (as it comes from the Greek through Latin and French): it means "management of resources." A common definition of "economy" is given by Webster:
+  * The management of resources.
+  * The management of household affairs.
+The person charged with managing the resources and/or household affairs of another is called, in English, a steward. And (wouldn't you know!) that English word "steward" in the King James Bible is a translation of //oikonomos//, thus showing us that each dispensation is an economy based on the stewardship that God gives a steward, expecting that steward to manage the resources and affairs committed to him by the Lord according to the will and desires of the Lord.
+>**1Corinthians 4.1-2:** Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and **stewards [//oikonomos//]** of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in **stewards [//oikonomos//]**, that a man be found faithful.
+Dispensations are not the invention of John Darby. They are the economies (stewardships) that God establishes with men throughout history.
+----