“However, I will say that if someone from today went back to 1812 or 1712 and started preaching a “dispensationalist” sermon he would have been thought part of some kook fringe or possible cryptojudaiser.”
This is a completely fallacious argument. One could say the same about the preaching of salvation by grace through faith alone before 1500....
This “dating” argument reminds me so much of the RCC argumentation that appeals to the “Magisterium”, and the “church Fathers” and “Councils” and to “papal infallibility”.
The Reformation did NOT end with the Council of Dordt and the publication of the Westminster Catechism. I do declare, it seems as if Reformed theology is halfway stuck in the Vatican.
Having grown up in the RCC, I am trying to move as far away from it as I can, in so far where they differ from Scripture.
if you can’t name at least 10 Christians in every century since Jesus ascended to heaven, you just might not be a Christian.
the reason no one belived through “faith alone”, is the Scriptures specifically say the opposite. and since the Church only chose those books for the NT canon that matched the Faith received orally from the Apostles, no one heard of “faith alone” before the 16th century.
grace alone, yes.
faith alone, no.