If dispensationalism is true why did nobody teach it until the 1830's?

[lak611]

On another thread, a poster kept insisting on dispensationalist beliefs. To all of you who hold dispensationlist ideologies, if dispensationalism is true, where was it during the first 1800 years of the Church? What authority did J.N. Darby have to introduce this belief which was not held by the Catholic Church or any of the Protestants such as Luther or Calvin?

 

[runandsew]

Because someone finally got it right !!!

I don’t know why people have such a hard time with this.

The church was wrong for 1200 years.
It took people that actually read an english version of the bible and interpret it for themselves, to finally get to the truth.

So sorry that it took so long, but the old bibles were written in hebrew, greek and latin.

I mean who can read those languages anyways?

 

[David_Young]

For the same reason that the Rapture was not introduced until the early 20th century. They aren’t ‘Biblical’, but then what is?

Like the Trinity and the Rapture, dispensationalism is an idea created to fill a vacuum in the text. It’s the standard fallacy of exegesis which is to confuse a way of explaining a piece of text with what the text itself says. Its popularity is due to the fact that in most cases ‘There isn’t enough evidence to say conclusively’ is the correct answer, but nature abhors a vacuum.

 

[a_priori]

For the same reason that the Rapture was not introduced until the early 20th century.

The Rapture came about around 1830 courtesy of our old pal J.N. Darby. It came with the dispensational package.

It’s interesting that dispensationalists often criticize the Christian Scientists and LDS as latter day (and of course they are) but think Darby is equal to the Apostles.

People, however well-intentioned, sitting on a stump with a translated version of the Bible 1500 (or 1800) years down the road claiming to tease out God’s Truth from its pages is a tenuous activity at best. When more than one person does it and they come up with different truths, well, you get to have incessant radioactive “discussions”.

 

[Catholic_Dude]

On another thread, a poster kept insisting on dispensationalist beliefs. To all of you who hold dispensationlist ideologies, if dispensationalism is true, where was it during the first 1800 years of the Church? What authority did J.N. Darby have to introduce this belief which was not held by the Catholic Church or any of the Protestants such as Luther or Calvin?

The primary proof text of dispensationalism came from MISREADING an ENGLISH translation of the Bible. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
-2 Tim 2:15 King James Version
The concept of “dividing the word of truth” was wrongly interpreted to mean literally dividing the books of the Bible up according to its “dispensations”. The original Protestants never saw this because they didnt use English translations, however the protestant revolt certainly opened the door for misinterpretations like this down the road.

As for the timing, in the 1800s I would guess that was about the time people were able to have personal copies of the Bible and seeing the Protetant confusion around them thought it was up to themselve to read the Bible and decide what was what. As a result people came up with many new false teachings and the ones that became popular eventulally settled into new denominations.

Dispensationlism is a classical example of taking ONE VERSE and building a whole new gospel and theology out of it.

Because someone finally got it right !!!

I don’t know why people have such a hard time with this.

The church was wrong for 1200 years.
It took people that actually read an english version of the bible and interpret it for themselves, to finally get to the truth.

So sorry that it took so long, but the old bibles were written in hebrew, greek and latin.

I mean who can read those languages anyways?

Like the old proverb says: “The Bible fell from Heaven in 1611”

 

[JonathanKinsman]

On another thread, a poster kept insisting on dispensationalist beliefs. To all of you who hold dispensationlist ideologies, if dispensationalism is true, where was it during the first 1800 years of the Church? What authority did J.N. Darby have to introduce this belief which was not held by the Catholic Church or any of the Protestants such as Luther or Calvin?

Anyone else notice the rise (in America) with goofy, offshoot from offshoot mainstream Protestant denominations with the spread of “dispensationalism”?

Such as Koresh’s Davidians from SDA from Millerites from Anabaptists from Congregationalists from Church of England?

Wow. The silence is deafening from our Protestant brothers and sisters on this one!

Pax Christi