| Introduction to Dispensationalism | | The Salvation of Mankind, and the Governance of Mankind | | The Believer and the Ten Commandments of Moses | | Israel is not the Church | | The Church is not Israel, and is not Heir to the Promises | | Dispensationalism as a Hermaneutic |
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6 Dispensationalism as a hermeneutic
We believe that the same literal hermeneutic that distinguishes the church from Israel, and the recognition that God's revelation to humanity has been progressive, illuminates an understanding of Scriptures in periods other than the church age, or patriarchal Israel. We believe that honest men may differ in their conclusions of how many different dispensations are represented in Scripture, or the exact requirements placed upon men in various dispensations. However, we believe that, by failing to appreciate, on some fundamental level, the existence of distinct administrations in God's governance of humanity, false teachers err by imposing on believers in the church age legal requirements that are properly ascribed to different ages or different dispensations. We further believe that, when such demands are not only imposed on the church, but made a requirement for salvation, that grave violence is done to the doctrine of grace, and the message of the gospel.
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