Comments on: Don’t mess with dispensationalists! https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Chad Vegas https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-27049 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 18:30:41 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-27049 As a former dispensationalist, I understood your point. Especially given the fact that I have heard John MacArthur say he taught thru the NT because he is a minister of the NC. I wondered why that wouldnt compel him to preach thru the OT as well. I did, however, wonder why not throw that charge at the Anabaptists as well?

]]> By: Richard Hutto https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26912 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:55:18 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26912 No, I will not name names. I know these people personally (I went to church with them and they are my friends) and it would be inappropriate. I guess we simply disagree as to what qualifies as ignorant.

]]> By: David Murray https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26850 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 03:21:20 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26850 Just to say I’m reading all the comments and listening carefully. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to contribute to the discussion so far. PRTS conference this week.

]]> By: Brent https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26848 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:23:29 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26848 No, it was definitely Arminian. But I think dispensationalism did contribute to the thinking I stated. Since the Jews had rejected Jesus, God turned to the church and thus, “our” Bible is the New Testament. The Old Testament was for the Jews and the prophecies would be fulfilled in the millennial reign of Christ. This is what I remember of dispensationalism. It might be “old school” but it was what I was raised in.

]]> By: What Do Dispensationalists Really Think About the Old Testament? | jtcochran.com https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26844 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:20:21 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26844 […] stir in the blogosphere, which resulted in Murray permitting Dan Phillips of Pryomaniacs to write a guest post on HeadHeartHands and Jesse Johnson over at the Cripplegate to write a response. Encouraging about […]

]]> By: Elaine Bittencourt https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26842 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:43:23 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26842 Fred =)

I agree with you, instead of making those type of references provide examples, not allusions.

We have also seen too much of this misconception about dispensationalism around, and that bugs me to no end. If anyone has to say anything about dispensationalism, at least find out what it is about before commenting on it. Some time ago I heard a preacher refer, mockingly, to the belief in “some secret rapture”. Then Richard Mayhue’s word came to my mind, saying that this is such a misrepresentation of the rapture teaching that it should be put to rest once and for all. I guess repeating an idea (true or false) over and over again makes it valid, and when someone of credibility repeats it as true it’s really sad.

Finally, let’s deal with what Dispensationalism teaches TODAY.

]]> By: Elaine Bittencourt https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26840 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:12:51 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26840 Was it a Calvinist church?

I ask because what you describe has been my experience with non-calvinist churches, where not only they dismiss the OT but various NT passages as not relevant at all for today. Point in case, 1 Tim. 2:12 – for starters.

That approach to Scripture has nothing to do with one being dispensational.

]]> By: David Bissett https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26833 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:48:53 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26833 David, Loved your book, and I appreciate your having Dan post here on your blog. His points were helpful to me too. You are both a good model for gentleman-ly blogging!

The comments section, however, does show the limitations of this medium. Such back and forth interaction is always more profitable in person (which is why I comment so very rarely online).

Yours by divine mercy, db

]]> By: Fred Butler https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26832 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:16:43 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26832 Can you provide us with some examples? I always hear about “some guy” or “some guys.” Even if they exist, to list them in a group that contains “liberalism, laziness, and Christ-less preaching” is igno… I mean extremely limited in knowledge.

]]> By: Brent https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/08/21/dont-mess-with-dispensationalists/#comment-26831 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:24:58 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=14650#comment-26831 No haggis whatsoever for me based on my culinary hermeneutic. Sounds gross. Anyways, what I meant was that most of the people in the church of my youth wondered why we needed the OT any more because it didn’t apply to us after the cross. It was a different dispensation. No, I no longer believe this way. And I do love my bacon.

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