The Bible Without Comment by William E. Cox
Proverbs 30:5,6 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Most Protestants, certainly...
View ArticleEvaluating Premillennialism: Part IV – The Hermeneutic of Literalism by...
One of the characteristic features of Dispensationalism is its insistence upon a ‘literal’ reading of the Bible. Throughout its history many of its advocates have alleged that alternative millennial...
View ArticleEvaluating Premillennialism: Part III – Israel and the Church by Cornelis P....
We have frequently noted that one of the principal tenets of Dispensational Premillennialism is the strict separation between God’s earthly people, Israel, and his heavenly people, the church. It could...
View ArticleEvaluating Premillennialism: Part II – Christ’s Return and the Rapture by...
No evaluation of Dispensational Premillennialism may ignore its teaching of a two-phased return of Christ, the first phase of which is commonly known as the rapture. This feature is its most widely...
View ArticleEvaluating Premillennialism: Part I – The Problem with Premillennialism by...
The common feature of all premillennial teaching is the claim that Christ’s return at the end of the age will take place before the period known as the millennium. Whatever differences exist between...
View ArticleDispensationalist Beliefs – The Church (Part II) by William E. Cox
Dispensationalist teaching on the church is one of so many doctrines where the wish is father to the thought; for the Bible simply will not bear out Darby’s ‘rediscovered truth.’ While much of the New...
View ArticleDispensationalist Beliefs – The Church (Part I) by William E. Cox
With reference to the Christian church, dispensationalists believe it came into being as a result of the rejection of the alleged earthly kingdom. They teach that the church was kept hidden in the mind...
View ArticleDispensationalist Beliefs – Israel and the Kingdom of God by William E. Cox
According to dispensationalists, God has two distinct bodies of people with whom he is working: Israel and the church. There is a separate plan for each of these two peoples. Israel is said to be an...
View ArticleDispensationalist Beliefs – The Scriptures by William E. Cox
In keeping with dispensationalist views on the completely separate dispensations, the Scriptures are said to have been given dispensationally, i.e., different passages of the Bible are directed to...
View ArticleDispensationalist Beliefs – Salvation by William E. Cox
Dispensationalists derive their name from their teaching that the entire program of God is divided into seven dispensations. Five of these have passed into history, we are living in the sixth, and the...
View ArticleDispensationalism: Endnotes by Mark Sarver
ENDNOTES 1. C. I. Scofield, The New Scofield Reference Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 3. 2. Ibid. 3. This brief outline represents classic dispensationalism. Dispensationalists...
View ArticleDispensationalism: Part IV – Modern Developments and Modifications by Mark...
The Development and Spread of Dispensationalism in America During the last fifty years dispensationalists have tended more and more to represent the more separatistic element of fundamentalism. George...
View ArticleDispensationalism: Part III – The Development and Spread of Dispensationalism...
The Rise of Millenarianism in Nineteenth-Century America During the Great Awakening (1725-1760) in America, postmillennalism was given fresh impetus, especially by Jonathan Edwards. This optimistic...
View ArticleDispensationalism: Part II – The Genesis and Development of Dispensationalism...
The Millenarian Revival As the advent of the nineteenth century drew near, there was a great revival of prophetic concern. With the French Revolution came a violent uprooting of European political and...
View ArticleDispensationalism: Part I – Millennial Views Prior to the Rise of...
Introduction It is scarcely possible that those who labor in the gospel will be able to escape the necessity of ministering to those who have been influenced by modern dispensationalism. We live in an...
View ArticleDispensationalism: A Return to Biblical Theology or Pseudo Christian Cult –...
Hyper Dispensationalism The distinctive doctrines of dispensationalism have been most consistently taught by a movement variously identified as Hyperdispensationalism, Ultradispensationalism,...
View ArticleDispensationalism: A Return to Biblical Theology or Pseudo Christian Cult –...
5. How the Pretribulational Rapture Denies the Gospel We have discussed the fact that the dispensationalist’s understanding of ‘dispensation’ invalidates the reality of grace in any age, how the...
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4. How Does Dispensationalism Deny the Gospel? I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some...
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1. Why Argue about Doctrine? Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not...
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Dispensational Approach to Interpreting the Bible
When one allows God himself to interpret the meaning of his prophecies through later revelation, it becomes impossible to employ a naturalistic, Dispensational hermeneutic. Dispensationalists claim to...
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So, What Do You Believe About Revelation 20?
As an Amillennialist it never fails – any time I have a conversation with a Dispensationalist within the first 3 minutes I get the same question, “So, what do you believe about Revelation 20?” They...
View ArticleModern Dispensationalism and the Doctrine of the Unity of the Scripture by...
No doctrine concerning Scripture is of more practical importance to the Bible student than that which affirms its unity and harmony. Obviously, the trustworthiness, perspicuity and plenary inspiration...
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The Lost Thousand Years Between Two Resurrections by Rev. Nollie Malabuyo
In the Parable of the Wheat and Weeds (or tares) in Matthew 13:24–30 (with its interpretation in Matthew 13:36–43), Jesus explains that the Son of Man sows good seed—the children of the kingdom—in the...
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What is the “Mark of the Beast?”
This is NOT the Mark of the Beast Today on two different Facebook pages the question of the “mark of the beast” came up after a YouTube video about human microchip implants began to circulate. It’s...
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The Great Tribulation: Past or Future?
The Great Tribulation “Although this entire present age intervening between the first and second comings of Christ is one of tribulation, trial and distress, the so-called Great Tribulation mentioned...
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