I've said this before
The real crime of Darby is not dispensations, he is not the father of dispensations as people keep saying.
Dispensations besides being thoroughly Pauline and biblical have always been taught by the church whether Catholic or Protestant, they were more usually known as God's economies and they describe the different ways in which each covenant God has made with man is administrated.
Dispensation = administration
Nor was Darby a Mid Acts Dispensationalist.
He did strongly emphasise the apostleship to the Gentiles of Paul, he is called "our Apostle" in this Darby was not wrong. The Jerusalem crowd emphasised the gospel using the Law and Prophets as shadows. Paul could not do so except when he was speaking to Gentiles through a Jewish audience.
The Gentiles never were subject to the Law and Prophets. Paul's starting point with the Gentiles must always be the Holy Spirit.
So what IS Darby's real crime?
He is the modern day father of pre-tribulation rapture. And he really is criminal because [he was highly intellectual] he KNEW he was changing the meaning of words and bible terms in order to make his theology float.
The church has always taught that the church would go through the tribulation, a period of intense endtime persecution.
Jesus taught it, the apostles taught it and the church has always believed it.
Jesus even says "after the tribulation of those days ......... they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory"
Although Darby always strenuously denied it he certainly did get his idea for a secret pre-trib coming of the Lord from the discredited Edward Irving.
The tribulation precedes the Day of the Lord and is not the wrath of God. Tribulation in scripture always come the world, not God.
The real crime of Darby is not dispensations, he is not the father of dispensations as people keep saying.
Dispensations besides being thoroughly Pauline and biblical have always been taught by the church whether Catholic or Protestant, they were more usually known as God's economies and they describe the different ways in which each covenant God has made with man is administrated.
Dispensation = administration
Nor was Darby a Mid Acts Dispensationalist.
He did strongly emphasise the apostleship to the Gentiles of Paul, he is called "our Apostle" in this Darby was not wrong. The Jerusalem crowd emphasised the gospel using the Law and Prophets as shadows. Paul could not do so except when he was speaking to Gentiles through a Jewish audience.
The Gentiles never were subject to the Law and Prophets. Paul's starting point with the Gentiles must always be the Holy Spirit.
So what IS Darby's real crime?
He is the modern day father of pre-tribulation rapture. And he really is criminal because [he was highly intellectual] he KNEW he was changing the meaning of words and bible terms in order to make his theology float.
The church has always taught that the church would go through the tribulation, a period of intense endtime persecution.
Jesus taught it, the apostles taught it and the church has always believed it.
Jesus even says "after the tribulation of those days ......... they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory"
Although Darby always strenuously denied it he certainly did get his idea for a secret pre-trib coming of the Lord from the discredited Edward Irving.
The tribulation precedes the Day of the Lord and is not the wrath of God. Tribulation in scripture always come the world, not God.