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  Westminster Abbey   by Dr. Renald Showers (1936-2019) (originally published in Israel My Glory ) Unfortunately, space restricts the number of problems I can address. Is Too Limited. Covenant Theology’s ultimate goal of history, the glory of God through the redemption of the elect, is too limited. During the course of history, God not only has a program of redemption for those people who get saved, but He also has a program for those who never get saved and programs for nations, rulers, angels, Satan, and nature. The ultimate goal of history must be large enough to include all of God’s programs, not just one. Denies Distinctions. Covenant Theology denies or weakens some of the distinctions in the Bible by insisting that distinctions are different phases of the same covenant of grace. For example, it claims that the Abrahamic Covenant and Mosaic Covenant (the Law) were essentially the same. But Paul emphasized their distinctiveness in Galatians 3. It also teach...

This excellent article was posted originally on the Israel My Glory website at the following address: https://israelmyglory.org/article/covenant-theology-whats-in-it-for-israel/      We encourage you to visit their site. Westminster Abbey, London Covenant Theology (as opposed to Dispensational Theology, which is what we believe) is a system that attempts to develop the Bible’s philosophy of history on the basis of two or three covenants. It represents the whole of Scripture and history as being covered by these covenants.      Covenant Theology did not begin as a system until the 16th and 17th centuries. It did not develop in the early church or the Middle Ages. 1 Kaspar Olevianus (1536–1587) was the founder of a well-developed Covenant Theology “in which the concept of the covenant became for the first time the constitutive and determinative principle of the whole system.” 2      The system started in ...

  from Ch. 2 of the booklet Amillennialism , by Bunting THE BASIS OF AMILLENNIALISM Amillennialists belong to what is known as the Allegorical School of interpretation. In accordance with the principles of this school, some of the plainest passages of Scripture, which any unbiased reader would understand in a literal sense, are so spiritualised that their meaning is entirely distorted, if not completely lost. It is true, the Bible contains allegories and symbols and certain passages are intended to be taken figuratively. No Scripture, however, should be so interpreted except where the inspiring Spirit has made it perfectly obvious that it should be treated in that manner. “Therefore,” says Dr. D L Cooper, “take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning, unless the facts of the context clearly indicate otherwise.” It is just here that amillennialism fails. One of “the major errors of amillennialism is that it fails to keep faith with the basi...

THE SUPREME IRONY AN EXPOSURE OF  THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ROOTS  OF AMILLENNIAL CALVINISM   by PAUL A. BAILEY  Copyright © Penfold Book & Bible House 1996 ,  Published by: Penfold Book & Bible House, U.K. Presented here with the objective of acquainting readers with his book, and to encourage them to obtain and read it in its entirety. PREFACE          When discussing future events with believers of the “Reformed” persuasion over the years, I have often met with the charge that the pre-tribulation view of prophecy, to which I hold, was originally invented by the Jesuit priests of Rome (the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534). Due to the increasing popularity of this conspiracy theory, and the regularity with which I was hearing it, I felt a need to examine history to establish whether or not it was true.      My research included a careful study of many Reformed w...