[RJR_fan]

Dispensations are just a way that some find to compartmentalize the bible in order for it to make sense to them, but that doesn't mean the viewfinder is the object viewed

Dispensationalism can be viewed as an excuse for "dispensing with" parts of the Bible one disagrees with.

• The civil statutes of the Old Testament?
  • Well, we're under grace, not under law, so we'll let those nice clean-living Nazis make all of our laws for us. Surely that is more pleasing to God and better for our neighbors than any "legalistic" attempt on our part to suggest that maybe God was right.
• The continuing miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit?
  • Well, God is the Great I Was, not the Great I am, and everyone knows that "tongues shall cease."

It's strange, sad, and weird, to see how many Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians also embrace dispensationalism, since this school of thought emphatically, rudely, and passionately denies the distinctive experiences of such Christians.

[DManA]

Am I on some ping list?

[1000 silverlings]

The whole theme of the bible is the Plan of Salvation and who in it, inherits the spiritual blessings from God, not Abraham.

That line goes from Abraham to Christ, to Christ's people. the whole dna thing is so ridiculous as to be absurd to begin with. Abraham was a gentile, only God's Spirit made him any different to begin with.

then add to that all the descendents thru his other wives than Sarah, the concubines, etc, and you have a world full of people, the seeds and few of them are spiritual people, most today are probably Moslems.

and there's little "racial purity" in the line anyway. Joseph's wife was Egyptian, and here you have Ephraim inheriting a "double portion", and why? because he rec'd God's blessing, a spiritual blessing.

Ruth figures prominently in Christ's line, also a gentile. There are all sorts of wives from everywhere having children by the Israelites. by now, all of us in the world must be related somewhere by these people. then the whole world will have to be saved, if it's salvation by dna.

That is not what the bible teaches.