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What is the dispensation of Innocence?



    
    

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
Dispensationalism is the system of theology that provides the best, most literal hermeneutic (method of Bible interpretation). Also, dispensationalism makes a clear distinction between Israel and t...

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Philip medium Philip Davies Supporter
Let's be clear about this. Dispensationalism is not found in the Bible. It was invented in the 1800s by John Nelson Derby, founder of the Brethren and made popular through the Schofield reference Bible. No one had ever heard of dispensations before then. On this basis alone, dispensations should be viewed with a great deal of skepticism. 

There is no dispensation of innocence. It was an idea created in 1850 by Mr Derby.

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