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From: "Chad Richard Bresson" <breusswane@...>
> In effect, the "cliche", as most evangelicals understand it, renders 
> Matthew 5 as this: I did not come to abolish the law, but to abolish it... 
> and only slightly less egregious: I did not come to abolish the law, but 
> to fulfill it... then abolish it.

I should add that CT makes nonsense the second half of the statement.  For 
CT, Christ says: I did not come to abolish the law, but to reinforce it. 
Whereas dispensationalism neuters, "abolish", CT neuters "fulfill".

Chad