Rapture background

I think the point here is that like all innovations, you can see this theology has no long standing history going back to the Apostles.
It is a tradition of men, and was a clear case of trying to force scripture to fit a theology.

 

Dispensationalism is neither historical or scriptural. The point being made is that it was an innovated human idea that Scripture was manipulated to give it credibility.
So in 1820 a Scottish teenage girl has a dream about a rapture event, and Darby builds a theology around it and proof texts scripture to justify it.

No one in all preceding Christianity was taught or preached this new theology or interpreted scripture to support this new theology.

So a Scottish teens dream was given status as Divine revelation and she became an oracle of God. Then Scripture was abused to give support to it.

 

The true test is not Scripture, the point is, scripture can be made to support any stupid idea.
And people taken in by the stupid idea, would rather hold tightly to it than admit its foolishness and their own gullibility, unless they are particularly imbued with humility and love of the truth.

Appeals to Scripture have become an appeal to each man’s interpretation of scripture, not an appeal to truth.

This is the tragedy of the culture that Protestantism created by the heresy of “Sola scriptura”, where each man follows his own subjective interpretation of scripture not the truth of scripture.
Each man sees his own or someone else’s innovated theology in scripture.

Dispensationalism is just another human innovation in a long list of human innovations spawned under the culture of protestant relativism, which appeals to scripture to justify every innovation and theology.

 

If you are baptised, you are part of the Church.

 

You need to have a genuine dispassionate look at the origin of your theology, and see that it was a human confection based on a Scottish teens dream and Darby’s eagerness to add his spin of scripture to justify it.

That’s why these Bible butchers have a great deal to answer for, they deceive generations of good people in unhistorical and unscriptural innovations.

Pray about it, and step outside of it to examine it without bias.

 

I generally point with my nose and run a hostile commentary with my mouth against errors.

Darby’s dispensationalist theology has the same authority as Joseph Smith’s, only Joseph Smith’s innovations are more elaborate.

Many claimed Smiths visions gave new insight as well.

No one in all Christian history taught dispensationalism or Mormonism, both are heretical innovations of the 1800s, with no history before that.

All heresy is innovation that claims new insight, but look at their origins, very human and delusional at inception.

They are theologies looking for a justification from scripture.

 

Any substance would be fruit of the poisoned tree.

The same way we know the tree by the fruit, we equally know the fruit by the tree.

The origin of dispensationalism tells us everything we need to know.

 

We do.

Let’s ask Jesus every day to guide us in His Holy Truth.

Pray for me and I will pray for you to this end.

 

Amen.

All Glory be to The Father, Son and Holy Spirit.