Meaning of dispensationalist | Babel Free

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A proponent of dispensationalism.

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“This change⟳ in nomenclature from the “Holy Ghost” or the “Holy Spirit” to just the “Spirit,” or the “Spirit of God” (as we find⟳ Him in the Old Testament), is indicative of the fact that the period is no longer the Church Age but another dispensation. (Of course, a man who is not a dispensationalist and is still trying to teach⟳ the Bible is a farce. I don’t mean⟳ that with malice; I mean⟳ it is just a plain statement of fact.) A man who is not a dispensationalist does not divide⟳ the Bible into dispensations, and therefore, he has sinned against God, for the clear commandment is to “Study⟳ to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2Tim 2:15).”

“The original purpose of the fundamentalist movement was certainly not to advance some new theological position. Instead its objective was to form⟳ a rallying point⟳ for biblical Christianity. But after the turn⟳ of the century, and especially after World War I, the leadership of this movement somehow came to be dominated by those holding to a dispensational way of interpreting Scripture. As a result⟳ those who remained in that movement came to feel⟳ that being a dispensationalist was essential to being a fundamentalist.”

“Today's dispensationalists continue⟳ to address questions to the text that involve⟳ the use⟳ of hermeneutical approaches that affect⟳ our theological understanding of the text. They do so, however, without trying to undercut the basic unity of dispensationalism. What, then, unites one dispensationalist to another? Simply put⟳, the basic unifying issue⟳ for all dispensationalists is that Israel is not the church.⁵ In fact, Ryrie maintains that such a distinction is “the most basic theological test⟳ of whether or not a person is a dispensationalist.”⁶”

“In 1924, Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871–1952), perhaps the most influential twentieth-century dispensationalist, founded and led Dallas Theological Seminary. […] The term is used more broadly by other theologians, including dispensationalists, to illustrate⟳ the fact that Adam’s decision to disobey God in the Garden brought sin and death upon the entire human race⟳.”

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