Dispensationalism defined:
Its beginnings are usually associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement in the UK and the teachings of John Nelson Darby (circa mid to late 1800's). It then branched out to become what we are seeing today ... Ultra (or Hyper) Dispensationalism (they will argue that they are not of the Ultra flavor, but they are).
Examples of the error that they teach can easily be found on the website of one of the most popular of this movement's present day teachers ... Les Feldick.
"Adam loved his Creator; but he loved his beautiful helpmeet more, and he thought he was about to lose her. So he had to choose, and he decided he'd rather eat the forbidden fruit and violate the Word of God than lose her and remain obedient. (www.lesfeldick.org/lesqa-a.html#7a)"
Here is the reason God gives for Adam having eaten the forbidden fruit:
Gen 3:17
And unto Adam he said, " Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake"
'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife ..." or in other words, she talked him into it.
To understand the main errors taught by the Ultra-Dispensational movement (that claims it is not, but is) I copied the following from a doc called, "Wrongly Dividing The Word of Truth" by H.A. Ironside (an early Dispensationalist who refuted the teachings of the Ultra/Hyper movement of his day) ...
First, inasmuch as our Lord Jesus was "a minister of the circumcision to confirm the promises made to the fathers," it is insisted that the four Gospels are entirely Jewish and have no real message for the Church, the Body of Christ. All might not put it quite as boldly as this, but certainly their disciples go to the limit in repudiating the authority of the Gospels.
Secondly, it is maintained that the book of Acts covers a transition period between the dispensation of the law and the dispensation of the mystery; that is, that in the book of Acts we do not have the Church, the Body of Christ, but that the word "ekklesia" (church, or assembly), as used in that book, refers to a different Church altogether to that of Paul's prison epistles. This earlier Church is simply an aspect of the kingdom and is not the same as the Body of Christ!
Third, it is contended that Paul did not receive his special revelation of the mystery of the Body until his imprisonment in Rome, and that his prison epistles alone reveal this truth and are, strictly speaking, the only portion of the Holy Scriptures given to members of the Body. All of the other epistles of Paul, save those written during his imprisonment and the general epistles, are relegated to the earlier dispensation of the book of Acts, and have no permanent value for us, but were for the instruction of the so-called Jewish church of that time.
Fourth, the entire book of Revelation has to do with the coming age and has no reference to the Church today. Even the letters to the seven churches in Asia, which are distinctly said to be "the things which are," are, according to this system, to be considered as "the things which are not," and will not be until the Church, the Body of Christ, is removed from this world. Then, it is contended, these seven churches will appear on the earth as Jewish churches in the Great Tribulation.
Fifth, the Body of Christ is altogether a different company, according to these teachers, from the Bride of the Lamb, the latter being supposed to be Jewish.
Sixth, the Christian ordinances, having been given before Paul is supposed to have received his revelation of the mystery in prison, have no real connection with the present economy, and therefore, are relegated to the past, and may again have a place in the future Great Tribulation
The full write up can be viewed here : http://www.cnonline.net/~rkmiller/ultradispensationalism-ironside.htm
an excellent write up (by a Baptist) which clearly reveals the thinking/reaction tendancies of hyper-dispensationalists can be found here >>> http://www.angelfire.com/nt/books/hyperdispensationalism.html
Its beginnings are usually associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement in the UK and the teachings of John Nelson Darby (circa mid to late 1800's). It then branched out to become what we are seeing today ... Ultra (or Hyper) Dispensationalism (they will argue that they are not of the Ultra flavor, but they are).
Examples of the error that they teach can easily be found on the website of one of the most popular of this movement's present day teachers ... Les Feldick.
"Adam loved his Creator; but he loved his beautiful helpmeet more, and he thought he was about to lose her. So he had to choose, and he decided he'd rather eat the forbidden fruit and violate the Word of God than lose her and remain obedient. (www.lesfeldick.org/lesqa-a.html#7a)"
Here is the reason God gives for Adam having eaten the forbidden fruit:
Gen 3:17
And unto Adam he said, " Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake"
'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife ..." or in other words, she talked him into it.
To understand the main errors taught by the Ultra-Dispensational movement (that claims it is not, but is) I copied the following from a doc called, "Wrongly Dividing The Word of Truth" by H.A. Ironside (an early Dispensationalist who refuted the teachings of the Ultra/Hyper movement of his day) ...
First, inasmuch as our Lord Jesus was "a minister of the circumcision to confirm the promises made to the fathers," it is insisted that the four Gospels are entirely Jewish and have no real message for the Church, the Body of Christ. All might not put it quite as boldly as this, but certainly their disciples go to the limit in repudiating the authority of the Gospels.
Secondly, it is maintained that the book of Acts covers a transition period between the dispensation of the law and the dispensation of the mystery; that is, that in the book of Acts we do not have the Church, the Body of Christ, but that the word "ekklesia" (church, or assembly), as used in that book, refers to a different Church altogether to that of Paul's prison epistles. This earlier Church is simply an aspect of the kingdom and is not the same as the Body of Christ!
Third, it is contended that Paul did not receive his special revelation of the mystery of the Body until his imprisonment in Rome, and that his prison epistles alone reveal this truth and are, strictly speaking, the only portion of the Holy Scriptures given to members of the Body. All of the other epistles of Paul, save those written during his imprisonment and the general epistles, are relegated to the earlier dispensation of the book of Acts, and have no permanent value for us, but were for the instruction of the so-called Jewish church of that time.
Fourth, the entire book of Revelation has to do with the coming age and has no reference to the Church today. Even the letters to the seven churches in Asia, which are distinctly said to be "the things which are," are, according to this system, to be considered as "the things which are not," and will not be until the Church, the Body of Christ, is removed from this world. Then, it is contended, these seven churches will appear on the earth as Jewish churches in the Great Tribulation.
Fifth, the Body of Christ is altogether a different company, according to these teachers, from the Bride of the Lamb, the latter being supposed to be Jewish.
Sixth, the Christian ordinances, having been given before Paul is supposed to have received his revelation of the mystery in prison, have no real connection with the present economy, and therefore, are relegated to the past, and may again have a place in the future Great Tribulation
The full write up can be viewed here : http://www.cnonline.net/~rkmiller/ultradispensationalism-ironside.htm
an excellent write up (by a Baptist) which clearly reveals the thinking/reaction tendancies of hyper-dispensationalists can be found here >>> http://www.angelfire.com/nt/books/hyperdispensationalism.html
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