While the dispensational community has rightly pointed out that NT never posits identity between the Christian Church and the Messianic Kingdom, the relationship of the Church to the Kingdom is sometimes murky in dispensational thought. Paul in Ephesians 1:10 tells us...
Ben Edwards talks to Mark Snoeberger and Tim Miller about what the Bible has to say about extraterrestrial life.
Post-Christian society is full of deniers—Christians unwilling to cede the loss of Christian influence and often unaware that this loss has irreparably occurred in American culture. These deniers are still agitating to restore Christian privilege: getting the Bible...
In today's episode, we invite Dr Snoeberger on to explore the theological and political implications of the Abrahamic Covenant in relation to modern Israel. Prompted by recent comments from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the discussion dives deep into...
Ben Edwards talks with Mark Snoeberger about rengergate church membership.
Ben Edwards talks with Mark Snoeberger about the distinctives of baptist churches.
In this episode Ben Edwards talk to Mark Snoeberger about the ordinances and protecting the gospel.
In this episode Phil Cecil talks with Dr Mark Snoeberger and Dr Ryan Meyer about the Active Obedience of Christ. Some today hold that such a doctrine is unbiblical. They might even say that true Dispensationalists cannot be for the Active Obedience of Christ as...
Ben Edwards talks with Mark Snoeberger about the received laws of language.
Phil Cecil talks with Dr. Mark Snoeberger about the meaning of John 5:26 as it relates to the debate on Eternal Generation.
The term ἀδιάφορα (adiaphora), literally, matters that are to be viewed with indifference or that make no difference, does not appear in the Christian Scriptures and does not feature significantly in Christian Theology until the Reformation era. The term does,...
An article published recently by the Religion News Service, “Is a Pastor’s Sin a Private Matter?” addresses a matter of great consequence and relevance in the Christian Church. Unfortunately, the article offered an answer that was terribly incomplete. It...
Ben Edwards talks with Mark Snoeberger about the apologetical significance of Paul's address on Mars Hill.
This week Ben Edwards talks with Mark Snoeberger about the significance of a historical Adam.
Nakedness and Coverings in Genesis 3 - SnoebergerDownload
A few weeks back I posted a piece on being conservative. In it I suggested that in every sphere of life there are foundational absolutes to be conserved. This is so because God is the immutable source and standard of all that is good and true and beautiful. There is...
It’s no secret that I have an abiding interest in the place and function of sanctification in the life of believers. The journey that began for me as a doctoral dissertation answering the Keswick model of sanctification that has historically punished dispensational...
We talk with Dr Mark Snoeberger about what Deuteronomy 18 has to say about finding the will of God.
Phil Cecil and Mark Snoeberger talk about the two Kingdoms of God and the central theme of the whole Bible.
Today we talk about hyper cessationism and the debate surrounding whether or not God works miracles today.
In How to Read a Book Andy Naselli proposes three different levels of reading. If you want to improve how you read this conversation will be a great introduction to how to read better.
Christian Platonism. Friend or Foe? The Christian system has long been dogged by the question of philosophical grounding and the ancient comparison between Aristotle and Plato. Which (if either) of these philosophical models best sustains Christian...
For those of you who knew about and prayed for my recent open-heart surgery, I want to offer my deepest thanks. The discovery and repair of two long-term heart issues has freshly tuned my heart, metaphorically speaking, to the doctrine of divine providence, easily one...
I was privileged last week to officiate my younger son’s marriage. It was a beautiful event held in a chapel at the Christian university from which he had just graduated. It was not a church wedding, per se. I did use a (modified) version of the Anglican marriage...
Ben Edwards talks with Mark Snoeberger about believing the Bible.
I have not engaged substantially in the study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Most of the celebrity that Bonhoeffer has earned is in the spheres of ethics, piety, and courage (and he rightly merits our admiration on those counts); still, I have been concerned that unqualified...
The Incarnation of the Son of God is the centerpiece of our celebration during the Christmas season. The eternal Son of God took on flesh and manifested in visible form the image of the (ordinarily) invisible God (Col 1:15) such that in him all the fullness of...
The abortion debate in the public square often goes awry by delving into details that are irrelevant to the debate, bypassing the assumptions upon which both sides of the debate rest. The following represent the two seminal questions that are at stake. First, we...
In this episode Ben Edwards and Mark Snoeberger discuss the DBTS 2022 Recommended Book List and other thoughts on building a library for professional pastoral ministry. You can access the book list here.
Ben Edwards talks to Mark Snoeberger about how the sufficiency of Scripture relates to one's view of creationism.
Having suggested in my previous post that there was nothing magical or supernatural about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we turn now to the other tree: the tree of life. Was this tree of a character fundamentally different from the first tree? Let us...
Among the many trees in the Garden of Eden, Scripture tells us, stood two trees of great significance: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. This pair of posts is an attempt to understand the nature, effects, and relationship of these two...
This week Ben Edwards and Mark Snoeberger discuss dispensationalism.
As a professor and occasional interim pastor, I routinely hear a question (or something like it): “Is __________ (fill in the blank with any popular author, radio/TV preacher, apologist, musician) a good guy or a bad guy?” Often the question is asked in passing with...
When John the Baptist, firstly, and then Jesus began announcing that the kingdom of heaven was “at hand” (Matt 3:2; 4:17, 23) they were announcing that the anticipated Israelite kingdom of OT prophecy was being immediately offered to Israel, and that their...
These things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. So says the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:11. The statement caps a rapid-fire sequence of references to the Old Testament in a timeless...
I’ve been reading, recently and with great interest, a blog series defending what is sometimes called the “traditional view” of Christian decision-making—the view that (1) God has an “individual will” for believers and (2) that it can be “discovered.” My intent in...
Over the past decade it has been popular to distinguish between “cultural fundamentalism” and “historic fundamentalism.” Cultural fundamentalism is regarded by its critics as very, very bad. It consists of folksy/outdated traditionalism that has drifted from its...
The orthodox teaching of the church has always been that Christ is fully God and fully man. Christ was tempted at every point like as we are, but with one exception—unlike us he had no sin nature, and, in fact, did not sin (Heb 4:15): Christ as God could not have...
We talk in this episode to Dr Mark Snoeberger about how to make biblical decisions instead of chasing the secret will of God.
We talked with Mark Snoeberger about the Historical Grammatical and Theological method for understanding Scripture.
We talked with Mark Snoeberger about the history of hermeneutics and the recent return to premodern exegesis.
In this post I resume my series of blogposts on historically/theologically freighted phrases/clauses/mantras that have become cliché in contemporary Christian-speak—lines that are intrinsically innocuous (i.e., the words themselves are unobjectionable) but sometimes...
Ben Edwards and Mark Snoeberger talk about believers baptism.
A few weeks ago I was alerted to a criticism raised about an old blog post of mine—a post in which I argued for a universally shared a priori awareness of linguistic laws that make possible the successful reading of Scripture by all image-bearers. We...
Introduction and Preliminary Thesis A few years ago, a colleague alerted me to the humorous rumor that I had formally denied the existence of natural revelation.((Dr. Snoeberger, who writes the extended introduction of this article, is Professor of Systematic Theology...
Ask your average evangelical Protestant what it means to “be saved” and you will likely hear about an event occurring within history, usually in the legal sense of justification, though occasionally incorporating more existential terms of new birth. So something like…...
Ben Edwards talks to Mark Snoeberger about his contribution to a recently released book on dispensational.
Ben Edwards talks to Mark Snoeberger about the use of evidences in presuppositional apologetics.