Dispensationalists and Christ's Active Obedience?

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Goodcheer68

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What grounds if any do Dispensationalist have or give for the imputation of Christ's active obedience to believers. It seems to me that apart from understanding that Adam was in a Covenant they have no basis to believe that Christ's active obedience can be imputed to believers.
 
What grounds if any do Dispensationalist have or give for the imputation of Christ's active obedience to believers. It seems to me that apart from understanding that Adam was in a Covenant they have no basis to believe that Christ's active obedience can be imputed to believers.
There are many Dispensational who actually hold to Reform sotierology viewpoints, as in Dr John Macarthur, and many on staff at DTS.
 
What grounds if any do Dispensationalist have or give for the imputation of Christ's active obedience to believers. It seems to me that apart from understanding that Adam was in a Covenant they have no basis to believe that Christ's active obedience can be imputed to believers.

Some of them have explicitly rejected the doctrine. (Robert Lightner comes to mind.) I'd have to do some more reading to see how MacArthur and some others get there. I would think there is something about it in the new systematic text by MacArthur and Mayhue.

BTW, although it seems to be less common now, some dispensationalists have taught covenants in Genesis 1-3. Even the Scofield Reference Bible refers to the "Edenic Covenant." My guess is that this may have been more common among those who were Presbyterians or were from a Presbyterian background (Chafer, Scofield, Pentecost and others) than it was among Baptists.
 
Some of them have explicitly rejected the doctrine. (Robert Lightner comes to mind.) I'd have to do some more reading to see how MacArthur and some others get there. I would think there is something about it in the new systematic text by MacArthur and Mayhue.

BTW, although it seems to be less common now, some dispensationalists have taught covenants in Genesis 1-3. Even the Scofield Reference Bible refers to the "Edenic Covenant." My guess is that this may have been more common among those who were Presbyterians or were from a Presbyterian background (Chafer, Scofield, Pentecost and others) than it was among Baptists.
Many of the early Calvinists who were Dispensational were all Presbyterians, as you listed here.
 
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