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--- moadis_overview_0_intro [2020/04/21 14:57] – gregkedro
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+===== Self-Evident =====
 **Dispensationalism is Self-Evident:** {{ :12_moadis:dispensationalism_is_self-evident.pdf |notes}}
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-====== Soteriology ======
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 **Dispensationalism & Soteriology: Israel vs. the Church**
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 > These systems do set up conflicting and opposing principles; but since these difficulties appear only when an attempt is made to coalesce systems, elements, and principles which God has separated, the conflicts really do not exist at all outside these unwarranted unifying efforts; in fact they rather demonstrate the necessity of a due recognition of all God's different and distinct administrations. The true unity of the Scriptures is not discovered when one blindly seeks to fuse these opposing principles into one system, but rather it is found when God's plain differences are observed. The dispensationalist does not create these differences as he is sometimes accused of doing... Instead of creating the problems, the dispensationalist is the one who has a solution for them. ~Lewis Sperry Chafer
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+===== Etymology of Economy =====
+Four times in the English New Testament the word "dispensation" appears (1Cor 9.17; Eph 1.10; Eph 3.2; Col 1.25) and it is always a translation of the Greek word //oikonomia//, a word very similar to our English word “economy.”
+That shouldn't surprise us since the English word "economy" is derived from the Greek //oikonomia//. In Greek //oikos// means house and //nemein// means manage. Together //oikos// + //nemein// (house + manage) form //oikonomia// and it refers to household management (the managing of the resources and/or affairs of a household) as a servant or steward would manage the household affairs of his master ([[http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=etymology+of+the+word+economy|link]]).
+The English word "economy" means the same thing (as it comes from the Greek through Latin and French): it means "management of resources." A common definition of "economy" is given by Webster:
+  * The management of resources.
+  * The management of household affairs.
+The person charged with managing the resources and/or household affairs of another is called, in English, a steward. And (wouldn't you know!) that English word "steward" in the King James Bible is a translation of //oikonomos//, thus showing us that each dispensation is an economy based on the stewardship that God gives a steward, expecting that steward to manage the resources and affairs committed to him by the Lord according to the will and desires of the Lord.
+>**1Corinthians 4.1-2:** Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and **stewards [//oikonomos//]** of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in **stewards [//oikonomos//]**, that a man be found faithful.
+Dispensations are not the invention of John Darby. They are the economies (stewardships) that God establishes with men throughout history.
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