“You just wrote, ‘...all of the Christians who were guided by the Holy Spirit were all so completely wrong.’”
So, then, I take it you agree with me that all those Christians for 1800 years must have been right. Good for you to admit that.
So then you must now admit that dispensationalism is wrong because nobody believed it before Darby came up with the idea in the 19th Century.
You see, you cannot have it both ways. They cannot both be right.
Enoch is an example. It was known to the disciples, quoted in Scripture, beloved for 300 years and then not just rejected but discarded and remained lost until approximately 1775 when surviving manuscripts were discovered in Ethiopia. The true antiquity was confirmed by fragments of copies found in the Dead Sea Scrolls which carbon date to 200 B.C.
The works of Tertullian are another example. From the Papacy of Damasus (circa 366:)
V. The remaining writings which have been compiled or been recognised by heretics or schismatics the Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church does not in any way receive; of these we have thought it right to cite below a few which have been handed down and which are to be avoided by catholics:...
the works of Tertullian...
These and those similar ones, which Simon Magus, Nicolaus, Cerinthus, Marcion, Basilides, Ebion, Paul of Samosata, Photinus and Bonosus, who suffered from similar error, also Montanus with his obscene followers, Apollinaris, Valentinus the Manichaean, Faustus the African, Sabellius, Arius, Macedonius, Eunomius, Novatus, Sabbatius, Calistus, Donatus, Eustasius, Jovianus, Pelagius, Julian of Eclanum, Caelestius, Maximian, Priscillian from Spain, Nestorius of Constantinople, Maximus the Cynic, Lampetius, Dioscorus, Eutyches, Peter and the other Peter, of whom one disgraced Alexandria and the other Antioch, Acacius of Constantinople with his associates, and what also all disciples of heresy and of the heretics and schismatics, whose names we have scarcely preserved, have taught or compiled, we acknowledge is to be not merely rejected but eliminated from the whole Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church and with their authors and the followers of its authors to be damned in the inextricable shackles of anathema forever.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. - 2 Peter 3:8
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. – Genesis 5:5
That early Judeo/Christian understanding was discarded by the Catholic Church and was never picked up (AFAIK) by the Reformation. But surely the belief was “dispensational” to coin the modern term.
BTW, the Jewish year is 5768 from Adam’s first moment on earth – so under that calendar, Christ is not due for approximately two centuries and change. Using the Christian calendar, 6000 years more or less have already elapsed. The difference is a dispute over the amount of time the Jews were exiled in Babylon.
However, I strongly aver one should not argue against dispensationalism on the basis of “absence of evidence as evidence of absence” though I find that an excellent argument in the science debates because the geological record is not so easily erased by man.
The bottom line is this:
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.
Besides that you have already agreed that Eden was a separate period in religious history.
You wish to argue doctrine, and I wish to look at the facts of what is an is not apparent in the Bible.
BTW, what would you call that period of time we know as Eden?