To a Dispensationalist

Read the last two paragraphs if anything...

These aren’t shallow or worthless debates, it should be stated. When I read your words somewhere above where you mentioned the Covenant of Redemption in a tone approaching mocking it really effected me because as a believer engaged in spiritual warfare - real warfare that is truly dangerous at times - I get my assurance and my practical connection to the plan of redemption in that Covenant of Redemption made between the Father and the Son (and no the Holy Spirit’s role is not neglected by Reformed theologians - two of the greatest Reformed theologians both being known as theologians of the Holy Spirit, that being John Calvin and John Owen). That is the law that transcends anything the world or the devil can throw at me. It is the reality of my citizenship in God’s Kingdom.

Now, I know when you wrote what you wrote that it is from current lack of understanding, but still. There is a hardheadedness in Dispensationalists I’ve encountered that is more in the juvenile/petulant realm than it should be. It’s like your defending ‘not being wrong’ rather than allowing yourselves to be teachable. As I said, there aren’t too many examples of Federal Theology Christians ‘developing in understanding’ into Dispensationalists. And we who once were dispensationalists had to be teachable, or, maybe better put, we had to value the truth above our own vanity and worldly pride. I’ve been in many arguments with Mr. Berkhof, for instance, and he’s won 9 out of 10 of them. Or more. Not infant baptism, not regarding certain points of the Sinai Covenant, but I can’t think of many things where I havn’t been eventually won over.

Understanding is seeing the parts in relation to the whole. Dispensationalism is alot of parts with no relation to the whole. Once you are able to see Federal Theology - the power of Reformed Theology - by seeing the whole and hence the parts in relation to the whole you get a real sense of the whole armor of God in all its harmony and unity and strength.

The fruits of Dispensationalism are shallow and worse. Against the system of the Beast (as strong in the world today as it was during the tyranny of Rome 500 years ago) Dispensationalism is cardboard armor. Christians need the same armor the reformers and everyday Christians had during the times of the Reformation when the darkness of the tyranny of the Roman Beast was overpowered by the light of the Word of God.