another big difference is that before dispensational-theology came along (developed in Britain by John Nelson Darby of the Plymouth Brethren 1820s and 1830), Christians believe that Christ would return when the duty of evangelizing all peoples and nations was complete completed. Dispensationalism believe that Christ can come when certain prophecies are fulfilled, like the coming of the antichrist or a building of the third temple, return of the Jews to the holy land…
Some people argue that since Christ could be becoming at any moment now, that Christians do not need to be active in certain ways in politics because Christ is coming anyways. Others who opposed dispensationalism argue that the theology makes people lazy., Christ is coming soon, so why get a degree and medicine or law and influence people just follow Jesus live a simple life and Jesus is coming soon. Maybe these ideas influenced people during the Jesus movement. I don’t know how much wasn’t living then, but plenty of dispensational lists, believe in influencing and impacting the world.
Senate Majority Leader Thune, his alma mater is dispensationalist, founded a year before the Scofield Bible was first printed (1908)
also Moody Bible Institue, Dallas theological Seminary = dispensational
Yeah dispensationalism does make people lazy and passive.
(… so do TV and other mediums, smacks self.)
I’d also like to see people learning the Bible’s business teachings again…
What I’ve run into on this site that I don’t get is that I don’t like dispensationalism, and Catholics don’t, but then there’s some weird disagreement about what it is or something that I don’t understand.
maybe the confusion has to do with dispensationalism teaching that God deals separately over the ages with people through seven different stewardship arrangements where during each dispensation God tests, a person or a group of people with one specific revelation.
innocence in the garden of Eden
Conscience from the Fall in the Garden up until the Flood
human government (Noah: 2 instructions, not eat meat like some do with the blood & punish murderers)
Abrahamic Covenant - walk in God’s ways, to the promised land…covenant of circumcision, passed to the 12 Tribes
Dispensation of the Law, Torah with Moses
Dispensation of Grace, church age, between the 69 & 70th weeks of Daniel 9:24 ending with the rapture of the church I Thessalonians 4
the Millenial Kingdom of Christ ____
in contrast, Covenant Theology teaches God has always been dealing with people by grace and the church is the continuation and fulfillment of Israel spiritually and there is a unified people of God with Christ fulfilling the promises of the Old Testament. There are not two separate destinies and not really a restoration of descendants of Abraham getting back the land that was promised Abraham
another big difference is that before dispensational-theology came along (developed in Britain by John Nelson Darby of the Plymouth Brethren 1820s and 1830), Christians believe that Christ would return when the duty of evangelizing all peoples and nations was complete completed. Dispensationalism believe that Christ can come when certain prophecies are fulfilled, like the coming of the antichrist or a building of the third temple, return of the Jews to the holy land…
Some people argue that since Christ could be becoming at any moment now, that Christians do not need to be active in certain ways in politics because Christ is coming anyways. Others who opposed dispensationalism argue that the theology makes people lazy., Christ is coming soon, so why get a degree and medicine or law and influence people just follow Jesus live a simple life and Jesus is coming soon. Maybe these ideas influenced people during the Jesus movement. I don’t know how much wasn’t living then, but plenty of dispensational lists, believe in influencing and impacting the world.
Senate Majority Leader Thune, his alma mater is dispensationalist, founded a year before the Scofield Bible was first printed (1908)
also Moody Bible Institue, Dallas theological Seminary = dispensational
Here’s a Scofield Bible notes link https://www.biblebelievers.com/scofield/Scofield_1917_Chapter_Notes.pdf
Yeah dispensationalism does make people lazy and passive.
(… so do TV and other mediums, smacks self.)
I’d also like to see people learning the Bible’s business teachings again…
What I’ve run into on this site that I don’t get is that I don’t like dispensationalism, and Catholics don’t, but then there’s some weird disagreement about what it is or something that I don’t understand.
maybe the confusion has to do with dispensationalism teaching that God deals separately over the ages with people through seven different stewardship arrangements where during each dispensation God tests, a person or a group of people with one specific revelation.
in contrast, Covenant Theology teaches God has always been dealing with people by grace and the church is the continuation and fulfillment of Israel spiritually and there is a unified people of God with Christ fulfilling the promises of the Old Testament. There are not two separate destinies and not really a restoration of descendants of Abraham getting back the land that was promised Abraham
Yes, or to put it more simply, God acts through covenant and revelation, and not by changing His mind.
agree, well said! dispensationalists would disagree, but then their ideas will be dispensed with, in time