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He came to our church as a guest speaker one night and he spent the whole evening trying to sell the congregation his "memory system."

Personal experience is, like a picture, worth a thousand words.

As continually repeated, dispensation is a biblical word. And Ephesians 1:10 is the expression of it that gives rise to it being used as an "economy" or style/ordering of an era.

There is everything biblical about that concept IF the Bible does demonstrate that there are unique divisions in history that clearly should be viewed as a whole.

As a way of ordering thought and biblical history, who, for example, would argue that The Garden of Eden was not a unique whole?

At one level it's pointless to argue with those who simply don't see what I see. We must have different eyes. For my part, I cannot deny what my eyes clearly see.

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As continually repeated, dispensation is a biblical word.

Yes, we know. What you have been unable to demonstrate is that the way the Bible uses the word is identical with how dispensationalists use the word.

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'"

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As continually repeated, dispensation is a biblical word. And Ephesians 1:10 is the expression of it that gives rise to it being used as an "economy" or style/ordering of an era.

There is everything biblical about that concept IF the Bible does demonstrate that there are unique divisions in history that clearly should be viewed as a whole.

As a way of ordering thought and biblical history, who, for example, would argue that The Garden of Eden was not a unique whole?

. . . We must have different eyes. For my part, I cannot deny what my eyes clearly see.

INDEED. THX.