| I didnt mean to suggest that Dispensationalists all hold this viewpoint, however I do know a vast many who do. MacArthur redefines dispensationalism whenever he calls himself one saying that by it he means that God has future plans for the ethnic Nation of Isreal. Whenever I think of Dispensationalism I often think of that branch which who break history(and the Bible) into 7 dispensations. Those who I most often deal with, both online and in RL, hold to this pattern to some degree or another. They teach that God related to man differently in every dispensation and the Law was only for those people between Sinai and Christ. They basically toss out everything in the bible except Genesis, the new testament, and strangly the book of Psalms which refers to the Law quite frequently. I have never been to a church that holds to anyform of Dispensational premillenialism that teaches more than 5% of the time out of the books other than the ones mentioned above, that might not be what dispensationalism teaches but it seems to be most often how its practiced.
Another false doctrine I quite frequently run across is that Law was kept for salvation. As long as someone tried to keep the law and made sacrifices for thier sins then they would go to heaven. As if the Old covenant was one of works unto salvation. Whenever people who believe this are presented with the 10 commandments as universal moral commands that we should still strive to uphold today they think you are telling them to work for thier salvation.
offtopic: I find it quite strange that MacArthur, a five point Calvinist, refuses to use the term Calvinism yet calls himself a dispensationalist, even though he is not fully a dispy.
Last edited by Sonoftheday; 03-15-2008 at 11:51 PM.
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