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Dispensationalism is a theological framework for interpreting the Bible which maintains that history is divided into multiple ages called "dispensations" in which God interacts with his chosen people in different ways. [1]: 19 It is often distinguished from covenant theology.
In 2 Thessalonians 2:3–10, the "man of sin" is described as one who will be revealed before the Day of the Lord comes. The Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus have the reading "man of lawlessness" and Bruce M. Metzger argues that this is the original reading even though 94% of manuscripts have "man of sin".
Post-Acts dispensationalism holds that only the mystery of Ephesians and Colossians is the grace dispensation, which effectively dispensed with "the law of commandments...the ordinances that were against us" (Eph. 2:15; Col. 2:14), in order to bring those saved into the body during Paul's Later Acts ministry, with those like the Ephesians and ...
Progressive and traditional dispensationalists hold to many common beliefs, including views that are uniquely dispensational. The vast majority of adherents in both schools hold to a distinction between Israel and the Church, [2]: 49–51 a future pre-tribulation rapture, [2]: 317 a seven-year tribulation, and a Millennial Kingdom [2]: 54–56 in which the rule of Jesus Christ will be centered ...
In the BaháΚΌí Faith, a dispensation is a period of progressive revelation relating to the major religions of humanity, [1] usually with a prophet accompanying it. The faith's founder Bahá'u'lláh advanced the concept that dispensations tend to be millennial, mentioning in the Kitáb-i-Íqán that God will renew the "City of God" about every thousand years, [2] and specifically mentioned ...
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.
John Nelson Darby, the father of dispensationalism, believes that the church began at Pentecost, but his dispensational scheme is not like Scofield's and later American dispensationalists (except classic Pauline dispensationalism). It is also unlike that of hyperdispensationalists.
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