Ditching Dispensationalism
A personal journey
This originally appeared as an X thread on December 21, 2024 as a quote tweet of the following post from Stephen Angliss
This is exactly how I stopped being a dispensationalist.
When I was in college I read the Bible for the first time from front-to-back. The cracks began to show as the things I had been told were not only in the Bible but central to biblical belief (pre-trib rapture being one particular standout example) just weren’t in there.
As I sought help to resolve this, dispensationalist sources didn’t help. They generally just doubled down, strawmanned, and lobbed baseless accusations against other views. Kind of like what this Angliss character has taken to doing lately.
On the other hand, Reformed and covenantal sources did have consistent, coherent biblical and historical answers for my doubts and questions.
I grew up in a world where dispensationalism *was* Christianity and to deny the former was basically denying the latter. It made you a liberal and a heretic. It was the only game in town. I never even knew about different views (beyond “they’re bad”) until adulthood.
Thankfully, that world seems to be crumbling. The dispensationalist monopoly is over. I’d love to just see dispensationalism go away, but if they want to survive I might suggest they come up with some better material, an actual case for their truth and relevance.