I am open to being labelled whatever fits:
1. I believe the dispensation of the gospel began in Acts 9.
2. I believe a transition occurred in Acts 18, steering Paul onto his eventual course, and is hinted at in Romans and 2 Corinthians.
3. I believe the dispensation of the grace of God began shortly after Acts 28.
4. I believe there is one Body of Christ, made up of heirs and joint-heirs.
5. I believe the dispensation of the gospel and the dispensation of the grace of God will conclude with the Rapture of the Body.
So you believe that two different dispensations are in effect right now.
What evidence can you give that the dispensation of the grace of God began shortly after Acts 28?
So you believe that two different dispensations are in effect right now.
What evidence can you give that the dispensation of the grace of God began shortly after Acts 28?
Where is STP who said that the dispensation of the grace of God began shortly after Acts 28?
Probably respecting that this thread was not about that.
Why not?
STP thinks that one dispensation started at Acts 9 and another one started shortly after Acts 28 and they both continue today.
I want to know what evidence he can give that one started shortly after Acts 28.
But for some reason you seem to be discourging discussion on this thread which you yourself started.
Strange behavior!
i say Paul was met by God on the road in Acts 9 and didn't understand fully until Acts 13, even then still receiving further and later revelations from Christ/Holy Ghost. even until and perhaps after 28, Paul was still communing with God. blow this post off as my others but i'm right.
ps, i will never be an Acts 2, it smacks of Charismatics and Pentecostals, which i know
Do you think that the dispensation of the grace of God started shortly after Acts 28 ended?
i haven't looked for that before. i never tried to pinpoint it until recently. that's why i looked at the date written on all Paul's epistles.
The dispensation of the gospel began in Acts 9. Paul was first sent to the Jew first and also to the Greek during Acts. That does not include Paul being sent to far hence alien Gentiles. That sending was revealed much later. And when Paul revealed it, he became a prisoner of Jesus Christ for the you Gentiles, which includes all men including the you Gentiles.Perhaps I can help you understand if the dispensation of the grace of God began after or before Acts 28. Here are three quotes from the pen of Paul where he speaks of a "dispensation" that has been committed or given to him:
"If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me toward you" (Eph. 3:2).
"Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God" (Col.1:25).
"...a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me" (1 Cor.9:17).
The "dispensation" which was committed to Paul is in regard to "the grace of God," a "ministry," and a "gospel." Here Paul sums up his dispensational responsibility:
"But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20: 24).
Since Paul speaks of this dispensational responsibility during the Acts period then it is obvious that it didn't begin until after Acts was over.
I keep asking those who say that it did not begin until after Acts to give their evidence to support that idea. But I have not received an answer yet.