Theologically, I had absorbed some of the prejudices of dispensationalism, although I would never have known what that term meant. This is the idea that we should no longer expect God to speak and act miraculously today in the ways he once did in the Bible because that sort of thing died the day the ink dried on the New Testament. These days, the argument goes, we have God’s Word in the Bible, which is far more reliable than all that other whacko stuff. One of the many problems with this view is that it disregards the fact that people can, and do, misunderstand and misapply the Bible just as
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