THE BIBLE AND DISPENSATIONALISM

by Charles F. Baker

The Bible is a dispensational book. It is patent upon the surface of many passages that not all of the Bible is addressed to nor is written about the same group of people. Surely none of the New Testament epistles were written to people who live before the coming of Christ, and it is just as evident that the Old Testament books were not addressed to those who live under the present dispensation. Upon the basis of this fact some would suppose therefore that those parts of the Bible which were not written to us must be discarded, and in fact this charge has often been made against those who recognize the dispensational character of the Bible. Some have gone as far as to accuse the dispensationalist of destroying the Bible as effectively as does the modernist, only using another method. It has even been claimed that dispensationalism is far worse than open infidelity, because it begins by piously affirming the divine inspiration of the Bible, but ends by cutting it to pieces. Thus sincere people are seduced by this teaching, only to find in the end that they don’t have any Bible left.

We would be as quick as any to denounce any system which would discard any portion of the Bible. We believe that the wonderful, divine character of the Bible is seen in the fact that while its various parts were written over many centuries and to peoples under different dispensations of God’s government, it is ALL profitable for us today. Only a divinely inspired book could posses such a character. The Scripture itself is clear on this point: it is “profitable for doctrine, reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”

From BIBLE TRUTH, 14-15.