Spurgeon on Dispensationalism? I really could use some help. I'm tired of hearing Spurgeon buoyed as a dispensationalist.

I found a devotional of Spurgeon's that undercuts dispensationalism key to Daniel 9. I would be greatly appreciative of any evidence of his refutation of dispensationalism. I have been told that he attacked embryonic dispensational theology when it began to emerge in his time.

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Ryan
1689 London Baptist Confession

You may find these helpful (or not):

http://www.spurgeon.org/eschat.htm#ans3

http://members.aol.com/pilgrimpub/chsmillm.htm

[Edited on 8-23-2006 by Ivan]

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Ivan R. Schoen, B.A., M.A., M.L.I.S.
Pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church (SBC)
Poplar Grove, IL, USA
http://maranatha-sbc.org

Can't find mine right now, but the place to go is his Commenting and Commentaries. Look up Darby in the index; Spurgeon is absolutely scathing about him.

No way he was a Dispensationalist.

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Fred Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
Christ Church Blog

"The heart is the main thing in true religion...It is the hinge and turning-point in the condition of man's soul. If the heart is alive to God and quickened by the Spirit, the man is a living Christian. If the heart is dead and has not the Spirit, the man is dead before God." (J.C. Ryle)

Indeed, he was not.

Spurgeon and Eschatology:

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Andrew

I had forgotten that, Andrew. Interesting. I wonder how many Southern Baptists today would consider the Pope the Antichrist?

A lot less than the number who think John Paul II was a good Christian despite their "disagreements".

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Christian
One Pilgrims Progress

I am not one of them.

I wouldn't (and I'm not even Southern Baptist). The Pope may be the false prophet (and he may not), but he will not be the Antichrist. Hey...the position of the Pope is losing credibility in this world is it not? I can't see the whole world turning around and worshipping the Pope.

Didn't the early reformers consider the Pope the Antichrist because they didn't like him? I mean, the Pope was a jerk was he not?

Oops, back on topic. Does it really matter if Spurgeon was a dispensationalist or not? Does it really matter if we are today? I think what's more important is whether or not we are Christians.

Off my soapbox...

Brian,
Things do have a certain degree of importance. It is more important that a man confess Christ as the only Lord and savior of men than that he have his theology right when it comes to dispensational/ covenant theology. Nevertheless, this is a topic that interests theologians. It is a topic that interests Baptist Christians, especially Southern Baptist Christians who are preparing for tumultuous years ahead in their denomination over the issue of "Calvinism." And after all, this is in the "Dispensationalism" part of the forum. :-D
So you're right, it is more important whether or not we are Christians. But it doesn't diminish the specific importance and interest of the particular question that was posed.

In Christ -

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Ashley H.
Member of Immanuel Presbyterian Church (PCA)
DeLand, FL
~Wife to Mike~
~All good which could be thought or desired is to be found in Jesus Christ alone. - John Calvin~

Spurgeon appears to have been covenantal, at least to a certain degree. If you do a search of the CoW or CoG you can find some good quotes.

He was premillennial though. And he definitely saw a future for ethnic Israel. That's probably why some would think he was dispensational.

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For the Glory of our King,
Joe Johnson
Slave of Christ, husband, father, Preacherboy at Cornerstone Community Church, Escanaba, MI. and TMS graduate. Personal website - SoundLife.org

I do not know, and I do not say, that a person cannot believe in Revelation and in evolution, too, for a man may believe that which is infinitely wise and also that which is only asinine. ~ CHS

Well, I see a future for Jews of faith too; but it doesn't make me dispensational.