Comments on: 8 Reasons Why People Don’t Preach Christ from the Old Testament

By: Rick Reilly

Rick Reilly — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:32:45 +0000

September 3-5, 2010 I am attending a conference in Indiana, PA. The conference is the 9th annual Christocentric conference where the teachings center around the Person of Jesus Christ as the subject matter of scripture and focal point of life. From your article here I thought you might find this time very edifying.

By: Michael Dewalt

Michael Dewalt — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:17:25 +0000

Dispy’s have done a very poor job at preaching Christ in the OT on a whole, especially both classical and ultra Dispy’s. As you refer to your personal experience you may be in the Progressive camps, in which have done a better job. Although you say it is become less prevalent, it still remains and has much effect upon American Evangelical preaching today.

“You can find passages that seem to teach that salvation was different in the old dispensation” You can? and you believe this?

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:11:07 +0000

Bro. Murray’s statement about dispensationalism is not my experience, but admittedly my experience (particularly personal experience) is limited to what some more recent theologians teach. I would imagine what he has in mind is dispensationalism of the Scofield/Chafer school, which is becoming less and less prevalent.

He is correct about some Reformed not being much different. You can find passages that seem to teach that salvation was different in the old dispensation, which is ironic given the same writer’s invective against contemporary dispensationalists for essentially doing the same thing.