Every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ should desire to grow in his or her faith. One critical component of growth is time spent in the word of God, not just reading the scriptures but studying them. From personal experience, it is easy to be superficial in your Christian walk, skimming the surface but never diving deep.
Approaching the scriptures for more than casual reading may seem daunting. Many times in my youth, when teaching was given exhorting believers to study the scriptures, I wanted to scream at the speaker “How?!” At first glance, the Bible doesn’t come with an instruction manual; how do we approach the scriptures?
Various systems have been proposed that act as a framework to try to interpret the scriptures. These systems propose various rules to be applied to the scriptural text to endeavour to understand what is being communicated to us.
One such system is dispensationalism, based on what is called the ‘literal’ method of interpretation, also known as the ‘grammatical-historical’ method of interpretation. This is based on the idea that the Bible should be understood in the same way we understand any other piece of literature by what the words mean. It assumes no special knowledge is necessary to grasp the meaning of scripture, but the text can be properly interpreted simply by considering what it says.
My intention in this blog is to delve into dispensational teaching, which I was taught as a child, to determine its validity in light of scripture and history.
Thinking About The Truth 