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Mid-Acts dispensationalism holds that most of the early Christian Church abandoned basic truths starting near the end of the Apostle Paul’s ministry.[12]
The truths are (in order of loss):[13]
The Distinctive Message and Ministry of the Apostle Paul
The Pre-Tribulational Rapture of the Church, the Body of Christ
The Difference between Israel and the Church, the Body of Christ
Justification by Faith Alone, in Christ Alone.
The truths, advocates say, were gradually recovered in reverse order starting during the Protestant Reformation;[14] for example, Martin Luther is credited with recovery of "justification by faith" and John Nelson Darby with "Church Truth."
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Mid-Acts dispensationalists are not monolithic nor homogenous. There are two main positions with which there exists minor variations. The two main positions are Acts 9 and Acts 13. The difference is minor being only technical. They all see the dispensation of Grace and the church, the body of Christ as beginning with the apostle Paul. Among dispensationalists, the differences separating the Mid-Acts position from the Acts 28 position are just as great as those separating the Acts 2 position from the more consistent Mid-Acts dispensational view.
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Mid-Acts dispensationalists take all of Paul's epistles (Romans through Philemon) to be directly written to the church (thus often accepting the practice of the Lord's Supper as for this dispensation of Grace) while the Acts 28 position takes only Paul's prison epistles (those written while in prison) to be directly applicable to the church today (denying the Lord's Supper for today).
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There is only one baptism (Ephesians 4:5) made without hands where the believer is baptized into Christ by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:13) which is held in contradistinction to Christ baptizing believing Israel in Acts 2 with the Holy Spirit. This pouring out baptism of the Holy Spirit is in fulfillment of the Old Testament promise of the new covenant to Israel (Acts 2:16-21, Joel 2:28-32). Thus it has nothing to do with the newly revealed Mystery to and through the apostle Paul who is not sent out until much later with the new ministry as the apostle of the Gentiles to establish a new church which is composed of both Jews and Gentiles, and not just Israelites (which includes proselytes to Judaism) as in Acts 2. This new church is not subject to any Jewish rituals (like water baptism) according to the revelation of the mystery to Paul and further promulgated at the Jerusalem council recorded in Acts 15.
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John Nelson Darby, sometimes called the father of dispensationalism, began the church at Pentecost, but his dispensational scheme is not like Scofield's and later Acts 2 dispensationalists. Nor is it like that of mid-Acts dispensationalists. The church does not begin with a new dispensation for Darby as the administrations upon Earth are not relevant for the heavenly church body. One can study R.A. Huebner, (who sees the Church's advent at Acts 2), to get a better understanding of Darby's scheme of dispensations which is altogether a horse of another color
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J.C. O'Hair followed more closely to the Early American Dispensationalists and abandoned denominational loyalties. Rejecting gifts for the church age led to a rejection of water baptism and the Acts 2 position. He then began to explore Acts 28 as an alternative but eventually rejected that as well. It was at this time that H.A. Ironside wrote "Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth." After that O'Hair settled upon the Mid-Acts position.[27] The progression of O'Hair's understanding was an inversion of Bullinger's in that whereas Bullinger began early on leaning toward a mid-Acts view and later transitioned to an Acts 28 position, O'Hair began early on in Acts 28 eventually shifting to a mid-Acts position.
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Post-Acts Dispensationalism holds that only the mystery of Ephesians and Colossians is the grace dispensation, which effectively dispensed with "the law of commandments...the ordinances that were against us"(Eph. 2:15; Col. 2:14), in order to bring those saved into the body during Paul's Later Acts ministry, with those like the Ephesians and Colossians, into one fellowship, "the one new man...the fellowship of the mystery."(Eph.2:16;3:9) In this new unified body, all the practices ordained for the Acts church, which was decidedly Jewish/Covenantal, were abolished with the "revelation of the mystery" (Romans 16:25) of Ephesians and Colossians.[28] It is this central belief of a subtle form of Acts 28 doctrine that qualifies Post Acts Dispensationalism as a doctrine to be added into the category of Ultradispensationalism.
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