The above citations are excellent data for anyone’s files.
At the same time, I don’t want to pretend that I’m neutral. I am a premillennialist, and I do think it is the historic position of the church. Your questions are on target, btw.
I think that people equate dispensationalism with premil. I believe it is possible to be premil and not be dispensational.
It is hard, isn’t it, not to think that people lived under different paradigms in the Garden, before the flood, after the law was given to Moses, after the resurrection.
I’m willing to be persuaded that I’m wrong on the premil but I don’t see how amil hangs together. I’m glad salvation doesn’t hang on a right understanding of this issue.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!