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PROPER HERMENEUTICS AND
THE FOLLY OF THE
"TWO CONVERSATION" ARGUMENT
- Part 14 Studying Grammar and the Contextual Flow of The Olivet Discourse to Disprove the Doctrine of Dispensationalism Michael F. Blume © 2010 Michael F. Blume All
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asked somebody to give his opinon as to whether or not it is more
sensibly related in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 that there was
indeed one conversation recorded in all three accounts, and not two as
dispensationalists try to persuade us. I found someone who is an
agnostic having absolutely no bias towards any prophetic viewpoint
whatsoever. I requested this person simply take the three
accounts at face value as provided to us in the Bible in order to
give his opinion. Here is his response:
"Yes. In these three passages, it is clear (to me!) that we have three accounts of the same conversation. There are some variations in how the locale is described, but it doesn't seem to be important where each part of the conversation took place. One of them (Luke) is unspecific, and it does mention at the end of the account that the day began in the Temple and later (at night) they moved to the Mount of Olives. There could have been a whole lot of unrecorded events and conversations at the temp, so an entire day spent there would not preclude the conversation (or the bulk of it) being at the mount. "Mark and Matthew are more specific. As they were leaving the temple, they started talking about the stones etc., and immediately we are on the mount. But Luke's account is not inconsistent with this. "There are also differences in the details of the points Jesus made, but there are so many detailed points that match up in all three, both in content and in the order they are given, to make it fairly certain that they was just one conversation, recorded in three places. "We cannot definitively rule out separate conversations, as Jesus could have simply repeated the same monologue with minor differences, but, IMO, the most reasonable take on this is that it was just one conversation with minor differences in what and how it was recorded." BACK RDTW
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