Dispensationalism exposed

[ReformedAnglican]

Find helpful resoruces here: http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/dispensationalism.html

 

[JMWHALEN]

“Dispensationalism exposed”

“Mid Acts Dispensationalism refuted”



Your credibility would be greatly increased if you would desist from the “Enquire”, “National Midnight Star” approach to discussing doctrine with fellow members of the body of Christ. That is, throw out “catchy, grab-‘em”(and presumptive) headlines to impress and sell the audience-“someone must have said it, or we wouldn’t have printed it.”



This approach is not from one displaying “…full age…”(Hebrews 5:14-maturity), and reflects the mind set of “I have my doctrine, and I will find the verses to support it.”



We have all seen it before, and are not persuaded, nor are we impressed. Make an argument, and quit with the “sizzle.”



In Christ,

John M. Whalen

 

[eph3Nine]

Amen John...we have heard it all before. Sigh....LOL

 

[Dispy]

RA:
If you truely want to expose dispensationalism, then go to Ephesians chapter two. There you will find the Apostle Paul was a dispensationalist. In that chapter alone he mentions 3 different dispensations.

TIMES PAST in verses 11 and 12.
BUT NOW in verse 13.
AGES TO COME in verse 7.

Those that don't understand the Bible rightly divided, try to give some relatively recent person credit for "inventing it." Apparently you agree with them.

If you do not believe that sacrificing animals for the atonement of you sins, then you to are a dispensationalist.

If you do not believe that one today is required to be circumcised, then you are a dispensationalist.

If you do not believe that you must observe Saturday as the sabbath day, then you to are a dispensationalist.

I could go on, but like it or not, you to may also be a dispensationalists.

God Bless.
Live Well, Laugh Often, and Love the Lord!

 

[ReformedAnglican]

RA:
If you truely want to expose dispensationalism, then go to Ephesians chapter two. There you will find the Apostle Paul was a dispensationalist. In that chapter alone he mentions 3 different dispensations.

TIMES PAST in verses 11 and 12.
BUT NOW in verse 13.
AGES TO COME in verse 7.

Those that don't understand the Bible rightly divided, try to give some relatively recent person credit for "inventing it." Apparently you agree with them.

If you do not believe that sacrificing animals for the atonement of you sins, then you to are a dispensationalist.

If you do not believe that one today is required to be circumcised, then you are a dispensationalist.

If you do not believe that you must observe Saturday as the sabbath day, then you to are a dispensationalist.

I could go on, but like it or not, you to may also be a dispensationalists.

God Bless.
Live Well, Laugh Often, and Love the Lord!

I have dealt with this post elsewhere.

 

[ReformedAnglican]

Amen John...we have heard it all before. Sigh....LOL

You may have done yet others may not and for them was the information posted. Instead of being engaged in the unholy work of pitting one part of the Scriptures against another, you would be far better employed in showing the perfect unity of the Bible and the blessed harmony which there is between all of its teachings. But instead of demonstrating the concord of the two Testaments, you are more concerned in your efforts to show the discord which you say there is between that which pertained unto "the Dispensation of Law" and that which obtains under "the Dispensation of Grace," and in order to accomplish your evil design all sound principles of exegesis are cast to the wind.

 

[eph3Nine]

You only serve to remind me that Satan HATES this message...the MYSTERY is the ONE Thing he didnt know about because God KEPT IT SECRET even from him. And, as we all know, the scripture tells us that if he HAD known , he and his minions wouldnt have crucified the Lord of Glory. The Cross was Satans defeat and he didnt even see it coming.

God is soooooooooo smart...and those who will not see His MANIFOLD WISDOM in keeping SECRET a plan that was formed BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD are merely pawns of Satan and his undisguisable ANGER at having been OUTWITTED on a grand scale.

So , thank you for letting us SEE, once again, satans FURY at this Message of the dispensation of the GRACE of God which reveals the Cross and all its wonder and glory.

 

[ReformedAnglican]

So , thank you for letting us SEE, once again, satans FURY at this Message of the dispensation of the GRACE of God which reveals the Cross and all its wonder and glory.

This modern method of mishandling the Scriptures -- for modern it certainly is, being quite unknown to Christendom till little more than a century ago, and only within recent years being adopted by those who are outside the narrow circle where it originated -- is based upon 2 Timothy 2:15, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." Very little or nothing at all is said upon the first two clauses of that verse, but on the third one, which is explained as "correctly partitioning the Scriptures unto the different peoples to whom they belong."

These mutilators of the Word tell us that all of the Old Testament from Genesis 12 onwards belongs entirely to Israel after the flesh, and that none of its precepts (as such) are binding upon those who are members of the Church which is the Body of Christ, nor may any of the promises found therein be legitimately appropriated by them. And this, be it duly noted, without a single word to that effect by either the Lord or any of His Apostles, and despite the use which the Holy Spirit makes of the earliest Scriptures in every part of the New Testament. So far from the Holy Spirit teaching Christians practically to look upon the Old Testament much as they would upon an obsolete almanac, He declares, "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the (Old Testament) Scriptures might have hope" (Rom. 15:4).

Not satisfied with their determined efforts to deprive us of the Old Testament, these would-be super-expositors dogmatically assert that the four Gospels are Jewish, and that the Epistles of James and Peter, John and Jude are designed for a "godly Jewish remnant" in a future "tribulation period," that nothing but the Pauline Epistles contain "Church truth," and thousands of gullible souls have accepted their ipse digit -- those who decline so doing are regarded as untaught and superficial. Yet God Himself has not uttered a single word to that effect. Certainly there is nothing whatever in 2 Timothy 2:15, to justify such a revolutionizing method of interpreting the Word: that verse has no more to do with the sectioning of Scripture between different "dispensations" than it has with distinguishing between stars of varying magnitude. If that verse be carefully compared with Matthew 7:6, John 16:12 and 1 Corinthians 3:2, its meaning is clear. The occupant of the pulpit is to give diligence in becoming equipped to give the different classes of his hearer "their portion of meat in due season" (Luke 12:42). To rightly divide the Word of Truth is for him to minister it suitably unto the several cases and circumstances of his congregation: to sinners and saints, the indifferent and the inquiring, the babes and fathers, the tempted and afflicted, the backslidden and fallen.

While there be great variety in the teaching of the Word, there is an unmistakable unity underlying the whole. Though He employed many mouthpieces, the Holy Scriptures have but one Author; and while He "at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets" and "hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son" (Heb. 1:1,2), yet He who spoke by them was and is One "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (Jam. 1:17), who throughout all ages declares: "I am the Lord, I change not" (Mal. 3:6). Throughout there is perfect agreement between every part of the Word: it sets forth one system of doctrine (we never read of "the doctrines of God," but always "the doctrine": see Deut 32:2; Prov 4:2; Matt 7:28; John 7:17; Rom. 16:17, and contrast Mark 7:7; Col. 2:22; 1 Tim. 4:1; Heb. 13:9) because it is one single and organic whole. That Word presents uniformly one way of salvation, one rule of faith. From Genesis to Revelation there is one immutable Moral Law, one glorious Gospel for perishing sinners. The Old Testament believers were saved with the same salvation, were indebted to the same Redeemer, were renewed by the same Spirit, and were partakers of the same heavenly inheritance as are New Testament believers.

The Bible consists of many parts, exquisitely correlated and vitally interdependent upon each other. God so controlled all the agents which He employed in the writing of it, and so coordinated their efforts, as to produce a single living Book. Within that organic unity there is indeed much variety, but no contrariety. Man's body is but one, though it be made up of many members, diverse in size, character, and operation. The rainbow is but one, nevertheless it reflects distinctly the seven prismatic rays, yet they are harmoniously blended together. So it is with the Bible: its unity appears in the perfect consistency throughout of its teachings. The oneness yet triunity of God, the deity and humanity of Christ united in one Person, the everlasting covenant which secures the salvation of all the election of grace, the highway of holiness and the only path which leads to heaven, are plainly revealed in Old and New Testament alike. The teaching of the prophets concerning the glorious character of God, the changeless requirements of His righteousness, the total depravity of human nature, and the way appointed for restoration therefrom, are identical with the Apostles' teaching.

 

[eph3Nine]

Baloney...dispensational teaching comes from God and it started way beyond a century ago. Yada yada yada....yawwwwwwwwn

 

[ReformedAnglican]

Baloney...dispensational teaching comes from God and it started way beyond a century ago. Yada yada yada....yawwwwwwwwn

Show me one person who taught what you teach between St. Paul and the 19th Century?