"If ye have heard of the DISPENSATION OF THE GRACE OF GOD which is GIVEN ME TO YOU-WARD; how that by revelation He made known unto ME, the mystery..."(Eph. 3:2,3,5,6,9).
Paul goes back a little further than Darby and the Plymouth Brethern. Or Schofield.
It's just the same old tactics. First separate one group then try and marginalize them and finally argue that Christians never believed what you post from the Bible, or it is a recent invention. Instead of just reading the words you must read it as allegory when it doesn't fit their beliefs.
Who spoke of the 'rapture' in, say, the 5th century or the 8th or the 12th? Did they speak of it as the great recent dispensationalists of the past 150 years, give or take, did?
I'm not saying it's true or false on those grounds. I am just noting what seem to be troubles with the argument presented.
Cute. Unconvincing, but cute. The folks I associated with who carried their well worn, well marked Schofield References Bibles to every service so they could follow alongm vertainly believed that his system provided the proper framework to understand God's dealings with the human race. All the "Right Dividers" (or do you have a preferred which honestly identifies your unique belief) do, is to add an eighth to the "classic" and original seven dispensations.
Again, that's fine with me. Where am I wrong?