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?
“Martyr clearly saw the millennium as a separate time period.”
Did Martyr also believe in two separate peoples of God and two separate plans for salvation? I don’t think so.
And as far as Eden is concerned, I’ve answered you already. But for the 3rd time, it was unique in that it was before the fall of man. There was no sin. There have been many unique periods of time and that was one of them for sure.
The problem I see with dispensationalism isn’t the times of testing. Of course there have been times of testing.
Again, the problem with dispensationalim is the teaching that THERE WERE TWO DISTINCT PLANS OF SALVATION AND TWO SEPARATE PEOPLES OF GOD. That belief came from Darby, not from the Bible.
The ONLY people of God from the very beginning were those who believed in Christ. Since the fall all who had faith in Christ were saved, not by their blood and not by the law.
Excellent point.
But we have to be careful and not give too many excellent points in one 24 hour period. Replacementarians could get tied in such convoluted knots that they couldn’t breathe.
/s