Originally posted at Dispatches from Reality, by Scipio Eruditus. dfreality.substack.com
Dispensationalism vs. Scripture…
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As we have thoroughly explored in earlier chapters, the theological system of dispensationalism can not be found amongst the Church fathers, the Reformers, or any part of Christendom before its advent in 1830. At most, singular aspects of this theological system — such as a national restoration of Israel, a pre-tribulational rapture of the Church, or an earthly Millenium — can be found by espoused by different writers throughout the two-thousand years of Church history. But that is certainly a far cry from the bold, baseless assertion that the Church fathers were holistically dispensational in their thinking, interpretation or theology; or that this non-existent viewpoint somehow constituted the majority belief in the first three centuries of the Church.
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