Too Good Not to Post
There's a blogger taking apart MacArthur's comments at Shepherd's Conference, and in the section in which he is explaining that MacArthur is pitting his dispensational premillennialism against the whole of church history (everyone except the dispy pre-millers hold to the idea that the Church is the New Israel), he quotes Spurgeon (who preached sermons in favour of both postmillennialism and premillenialism):
Spurgeon declared: “we have even heard it asserted that those who lived before the coming of Christ do not belong to the church of God! We never know what we shall hear next, and perhaps it is a mercy that these absurdities are revealed one at a time, in order that we may be able to endure their stupidity without dying of amazement (Vol. 15, 8 )
This was back when dispensationalism was still pretty new.
Have I mentioned that I love Spurgeon?
Spurgeon declared: “we have even heard it asserted that those who lived before the coming of Christ do not belong to the church of God! We never know what we shall hear next, and perhaps it is a mercy that these absurdities are revealed one at a time, in order that we may be able to endure their stupidity without dying of amazement (Vol. 15, 8 )
This was back when dispensationalism was still pretty new.
Have I mentioned that I love Spurgeon?