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Dispensationalism has become popular within American evangelicalism. It is commonly found in nondenominational Bible churches, as well as Baptist, Pentecostal, and Charismatic groups. [8] [9] Protestant denominations that embrace covenant theology tend to reject
Hyperdispensationalism, also referred to as Mid-Acts Dispensationalism, [1] [2] is a Protestant conservative evangelical movement that values biblical inerrancy and a literal hermeneutic. It holds that there was a Church during the period of the Acts that is not the Church today, and that today's Church began when the book of Acts was closed.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and, as the second person of the Trinity, is God. Man was created good and upright. However, man by voluntary transgression fell and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God. Salvation "is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus ...
This change was part of a movement within Pentecostalism at that time to adopt church names that appeared in the Bible, such as Church of God, Church of God in Christ, and Assembly of God. [21] In the Church of God in Christ, white ministers were supervised by the African-American leaders of the denomination.
Dispensationalism is common among Independent Baptists. They are opposed to any ecumenical movement with denominations that do not have the same beliefs. [13] Due to a lack of central authority and an independent congregational polity, Independent Baptist churches may often have variances from each other in a number of areas in theology and ...
Dispensationalism is a theological system in which history is divided into multiple ages or "dispensations" in which God acts with humanity in different ways. It generally adheres to the premillennial interpretation of Chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation.
The Reformed Church in America at its 2004 General Synod found "the ideology of Christian Zionism and the extreme form of dispensationalism that undergirds it to be a distortion of the biblical message noting the impediment it represents to achieving a just peace in Israel/Palestine."
Among the new denominations that grew from the religious ferment of the Second Great Awakening are the Latter Day Saint movement,Restoration Movement, Jehovah's Witnesses, Churches of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada.