There is Only One Gospel (Dispensationalism Refutation- Short Version)

Cyrus Scofield made Dispensational Theology popular. Scofield’s concepts have influenced countless Bible schools and seminaries, they are proclaimed throughout the world, and are commonly accepted as sound Christian doctrine. Rather than simplify the Bible for the common man like Scofield claimed, his Dispensationalism rather unnecessarily complicates the Bible and chops it up so that no one can even know what is supposed to apply to them without some supposedly enlightened Dispensational scholar giving them guidance about everything (involving the throwing away of common sense).

One key example of this is Scofield’s claim that there are multiple valid gospels throughout the Bible. Scofield basically claimed in his notes on Revelation chapter 14 that the everlasting gospel will just pop up and come on the scene during the great tribulation at the end of time. In reality, the everlasting gospel was preached from the beginning when God promised that the Seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent. This has now been unveiled and demonstrated in its fullness by the appearance of Jesus Christ and the sending of His Holy Spirit to dwell within His obedient disciples (see Acts 5:32) after His atoning death and resurrection. The gospel is to be “made known to all nations for the obedience of faith” as Romans 16:26 states.

Revelation 14:6-7 says: “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”

In Scofield’s notes on this passage he attempts to distinguish between the gospel of the kingdom, the gospel of the grace of God, the everlasting gospel, and what Paul calls “my gospel” in Romans 2:16. Scofield also notes at this point that “There is ‘another Gospel’… which is not another… but a perversion of the Gospel of the grace of God, against which we are warned.” Scofield basically says that there are several true gospels yet there are false gospels as well. That’s the type of thing you should expect to hear from an accursed false teacher who preaches another gospel besides the everlasting one.

The Dispensationalists claim that Paul did not preach the gospel of the kingdom to the gentiles since they claim that the kingdom is not offered to gentiles. We see that lie so clearly refuted by what Paul himself said in Acts 20:17-28 concerning how the gospel of the kingdom and the gospel of the grace of God are one and the same. We also see in the same verses that it is the same gospel offered to both Jews and gentiles whereby both are called to repentance towards God and faith towards the Lord Jesus Christ. The offer of grace to mankind would simply be humanism and license to sin apart from its Biblical context of calling people to repentance and subjection to God’s authority through Jesus Christ with the objective of fitting them for the everlasting kingdom of Christ when it comes in its fullness.