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Old 07-07-2007, 01:18 PM
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1. May be Arminian or modified Calvinist. Almost never 5-point Calvinist.
I'd say the early Brethren were mostly Calvinist or Amyraldian.

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2. Stresses 'literal' interpretation of the Bible.
More like 'letter-ist' or 'literal-istic.'

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7. The Church was born at Pentecost.
Classic, yes...but the net is filled with hyper-dispensationalists. Most are Acts 9 but some are as late as Acts 28.

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13. There was no eternal Covenant of Redemption within the Trinity.
Maybe modern dispensationalists, but even Chafer admits to the 'everlasting covenant' of redemption from which all salvation flows.

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19. Some Dispensationalists have said that O.T. sinners were saved by works.

20. Most Dispensationalists teach that men in the O.T. were saved by faith in a revelation peculiar to their Dispensation, but this did not include faith in the Messiah as their sin-bearer.

21. The O.T. sacrifices were not recognized as the Gospel or types of the Messiah as sin-bearer, but only seen as such in retrospect.
True of the ol' school, not for the new.

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27. The Millennium is the Kingdom of God Dispensationalists are always Pre-Millennial and usually Pre-Tribulational.
And not every premillennialist is a dispey.

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Dispensationalism is hard to nail down in a nice and tiddy list because every dispensationalist believes something different. I haven't seen a dispensational confession that dispensationalists can agree upon.

Peace,

j
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