I know that the majority of Christians are not Dispensationalists, and I have heard Dispensationalists mocked. Where do you stand regarding Dispensationalism?
Dispensationalism teaches that the Word of God is to be understood in its historical/grammatical context, and is not to be interpreted symbolically, unless the primary historical/grammatical sense doesn’t make sense. Therefore, it concludes that there is a difference between the Church and Israel – that the Church is not the same as Israel, and that the Church has not replaced Israel. It teaches that God will literally fulfill His many promises to the Jewish people, and that these promises can’t be expropriated by the Church. Dispensationalism recognizes that God has made different demands of different peoples at different dispensations (periods, times). It sees a progression in salvation history. For example, what God expected from Adam and Eve before the Fall differed from what He required of them after the Fall. What He expected from people before the Flood changed with the covenant found in Genesis 9. With the calling of Abraham, God expected new things from a new people. With the
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