“Dispensationalism existed as an understanding of the different eras in religious history. Justin Martyr clearly believed in a 1000 year reign of Christ on earth. He wrote in ca. 150 AD.”
Martyr was a premillennialist, not a dispensationalist.
Again, Dispensationalism began with Darby in the 1830s. Never did any theologians before Darby teach that there were two peoples of God and two plans of salvation or a so-called “pre-tribulation rapture.” In fact, at the time Darby was considered a heretic.
Never did any theologians before Darby teach that there were two peoples of God and two plans of salvation or a so-called “pre-tribulation rapture
= = =
What a preposterous statement.
Fascinating.
So . . . what was it like to have known personally every theologian of the last 2,000 years?
You are simply wrong, tabby. Martyr clearly saw the millennium as a separate time period. Because he did not happen to use the same word to describe an understanding of the phenomenon is simply faulty logic.
Those who spoke of our 3 in one God before the use of the word “trinity” did not believe in the trinity because the word has not yet been coined? Is that your argument?
They do not undertand the difference. From what we knmow of Justin's views, if he ever read any dispensational pap he would have immediately labeled it as nonsense, if not outright heresy.
As were Luther and Calvin.
Would you not agree that the "heresies" of Calvin and Luther actually led to a better understanding of the truth of scripture?