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To: topcat54; xzins
Paul is talking about the present ingathering of the elect to Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. That’s what makes it "full".

Not according the Geneva Bible's notes He isn't.

The Geneva notes for Eph.1:10 state,

14) The Father exhibited and gave Christ, who is the head of all the elect to the world, at that time which was convenient according as he most wisely disposed all times from everlasting(emphasis added). And Christ is he in whom all the elect from the beginning of the world (otherwise wandering and separated from God) are gathered together. And some of these elect were in heaven, when he came into the earth, that is, those who by faith in him to come, were gathered together. And others being found upon the earth were gathered together by him, and the rest are daily gathered together.

http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/GenevaStudyBible/gen.cgi?book=eph&chapter=001

150 posted on 11/05/2007 12:31:10 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! - Lincoln)
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To: fortheDeclaration; xzins
14) The Father exhibited and gave Christ, who is the head of all the elect to the world, at that time which was convenient according as he most wisely disposed all times from everlasting (emphasis added). And Christ is he in whom all the elect from the beginning of the world (otherwise wandering and separated from God) are gathered together. And some of these elect were in heaven, when he came into the earth, that is, those who by faith in him to come, were gathered together. And others being found upon the earth were gathered together by him, and the rest are daily gathered together.

So what are you claiming that the notes are saying to support the dispensational theory? To me this is only speaking of one time, that is the continuum of time "from everlasting".

155 posted on 11/05/2007 1:29:51 PM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism is a disease ... as contagious as polio.")
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