Well welcome...I'm glad we got one of them thar critical thinkers amongst us...
1Co 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation administration/stewardship of the gospel is committed unto me.
Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation administration/stewardship of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Eph 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation administration/stewardship of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Administration/stewardship doesn't fit...You'd have to change the rest of each passage to get any sense out of Administration/stewardship...
In Col. 1:25-27 there is a new revelation not heretofore known...It wasn't known because it didn't exist...
Something new takes place from that point on...
It is not merely an administration but a new dispensation for future Christians...
dis·pen·sa·tion [dis-puhn-sey-shuhn, -pen-] Show IPA noun
1.
an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
2.
something that is distributed or given out.
3.
a certain order, system, or arrangement; administration or management.
4.
Theology . a.
the divine ordering of the affairs of the world.
b.
an appointment, arrangement, or favor, as by God.
c.
a divinely appointed order or age: the old Mosaic, or
Jewish, dispensation; the new gospel, or Christian,
dispensation.
5.
a dispensing with, doing away with, or doing without
something.
Thank you for so expertly pointing out the absurdities of attempting to supplant the clear, concise words of God for anything one can find to make the Bible irrelevant.
You did a superb job, by the way!!