Standing at Theological Armageddon

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Standing at Theological Armageddon
C. I. Schofield

• Conservatives battle for traditional truth

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Diversity of focus, common foundation

• Defending the literal truth of the scriptures
• Promoting biblically-based personal conduct
• Preparing themselves and others for the parousia.
• The Bible is the key American Bible Society
• King James Version

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Charles Hodge (1797-1878)

• Systematic Theology (1871-73) 3 vols.
• What is Darwinism (1874) atheism
• Common sense definition of accuracy will
  establish the general accuracy of the Bible.
• Original sin is the only rational solution of
  the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and
  early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages,
  of every class, and in every part of the world.
• The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is
  confidence in God.

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Hodge
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Anna Bartlett Warner (1827-1915)
Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells
me so. Little ones to him belong they are
weak, but he is strong.
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Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)

• "If this world is going to be reached, I am
  convinced that it must be done by men and women
  of average talent.
• Established churches and YMCAs
• Worked with musician Ira Sankey to attract
  listeners
• 3Rs theologyruin, redemption, regeneration.

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Phoebe Palmer (1807-1874)

• Entire sanctification
• The Way of Holiness (1854)
• Guide to Holiness magazine (1864-74)
• By the resolve to be a "Bible Christian," this
  traveler in the "way of holiness" placed herself
  in the way to receive the direct teachings of the
  Spirit, and in the one and the only way for the
  attainment of the salvation promised in the
  gospel of Christ, inasmuch as it is written, "He
  became the author of eternal salvation to all
  them that obey him." WHO, 63

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Palmer
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Jerry McAuley (1839-1884)

• Converted in Sing Sing prison
• All at once it seemed as if something
  supernatural was in my room. I was afraid to open
  my eyes. I was in an agony and the tears rolled
  off my face in great drops. How I longed for Gods
  mercy! Just then, in the very height of my
  distress, it seemed as if a hand was laid upon my
  head and these words came to me "My son, thy
  sins which are many, are forgiven." I do not know
  if I heard a voice, yet the words were distinctly
  spoken in my soul. I jumped from my knees. I
  paced up and down my cell. A heavenly light
  seemed to fill it. A softness and a perfume like
  the fragrance of flowers. I did not know if I was
  living or not. I clapped my hands and shouted,
  "Praise God! Praise God!
• Water Street Rescue Mission (1872-1884)

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PreMillennialism

• Liberals tended toward postmillennialism
  conservatives tended toward premillennialism.
• Dispensational Premillennialism was favorite in
  U. S.
• When does the rapture occur pre, mid, post
  tribulation. 1 Thess. 415-17
• John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) and Cyrus Ingerson
  Schofield (1843-1921) were leading lights.
• Most Fundamentalists were premillennialists

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Premillennialism

• Dispensational history
• Edenic (Gen. 128)
• Abrahamic (Gen. 122-3)
• Mosaic (Ex. 19-20)
• Davidic (II Sam. 74-17)
• Messianic (Jer. 3131-34 3315-16)
• Apostolic (Acts 18-9)

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Other Premillennialist Groups

• Millerites
• Charles Taze Russell and Jehovahs Witnesses

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Charles Taze Russell, 1852-1916
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A Rock in a weary Land

• Its from Isaiah 321-2
• Churches of Christ
• Peace Churches Quakers and Mennonites
• Reformed Church in America/Christian Reformed
  Church
• High Church Episcopalianism
• Lutherans Samuel Simon Schmucker/C. F. W.
  Walther
• Wovaka and the Ghost Dance
• Quanah Parker and the Native American Church

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Quanah Parker