Ultradispensationalism

The Grace Movement (Hyperdispensationalism, Mid-Acts Dispensationalism, or incorrectly, "Bullingerism" to which ultradispensationalism properly applies) is a Protestant conservative Evangelical movement that values Biblical inerrancy and a literal hermeneutic. They specifically view the teachings of the Paul the Apostle both as unique from earlier apostles and as foundational for the church (thus "Pauline dispensationalism" but not of the Acts 2 variety). Paul's status is a result of having been commissioned as "the apostle to the Gentiles" and then personally taught by the risen and glorified Lord of Heaven (as opposed to Jesus in his humility). This perspective is sometimes characterized by proponents as the "Pauline Distinctive."

Classical dispensationalists such as C. I. Scofield identify Pentecost, in the second chapter of Acts, with the start of the Church (a new people of God) distinct from Israel as the historical chosen nation of God; mainstream dispensationalism may be referred to as the "Acts 2" position. Grace Movement dispensationalists believe that the church started after Acts 2, emphasizing the beginning of the ministry of Paul in starting the church. They also deny the church as being an object of prophecy unlike Israel. Israel is seen as having an earthly destiny culminating in the millennial kingdom while the Church has a destiny to rule in the heavenly places. Thus it is important in their theology to make sharp distinctions between two programs: 1. the prophetic/earthly kingdom program (with its kingdom gospel) and 2. the Grace/"Mystery"(unprophesied)/heavenly church program (with its Grace gospel). This interpretive grid of "rightly-dividing the Word of God" allows them to explain and either harmonize or contrast any apparent contradictions in Scripture in defense of the inerrancy of scripture. Their dispensational schemes vary from 3 to 8 dispensations with most using Scofield's scheme adapted to the Mid-Acts start of the church. Typically a transition is shown from the last Jewish Mosaic/Law dispensation which begins fading away at mid-Acts while the present dispensation of Grace then starts and grows into place fully by the end of the book of Acts. This is in contradistinction to the Acts 28 position which rather has a Jewish church body lasting until the end of the book of Acts (Sir Robert Anderson went so far as to identify a separate dispensation during Acts). Hyperdispensationalism exists in different intensities although all dispensational ideas trace back further to John Nelson Darby (1800–1882). J.C. O'Hair independently arrived at the Mid-Acts position after rejecting the Acts 2 position early on and then rejecting the Acts 28 position later. He was a Fundamentalist who based his Pauline dispensationalism on the teachings of the early American Classic Pauline dispensationalists even though he reached conclusions which were more thoroughly consistent than his Acts 2 brethren.

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