Different Dispensationalist's Views on the Ordinances

Both moderate and extreme types of ultradispensationalists reject the origin of the church on the Day of Pentecost. “They all hold that the church could not have begun at Pentecost, for the revelation of it was exclusively Pauline” (Radmacher, page 207). The moderates and extremes disagree as to when the church started and also they disagree concerning the church’s two ordinances. The movement is also known as the Grace Gospel Fellowship and the Grace Movement. Its literary organ is The Berean Searchlight.

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Should wine be used in the Lord's Supper?

After discussing the wine issue in the Bible, Norman Geisler came to this conclusion: “Therefore Christians ought not to drink wine, beer, or other alcoholic beverages for they are actually ‘strong drink’ and are forbidden in Scripture. Even ancient pagans did not drink what some Christians drink today” (A Christian Perspective on Wine-Drinking, page 51). If the Word of God forbids the drinking of wine then the wine cannot be used in the Lord’s Supper.

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The Different Views on the Lord’s Supper

The Roman Catholic view of transubstantiation is the sacramental view that the elements of the Lord’s Supper are miraculously transformed into the literal body and blood of Christ by the priest’s consecration which is sacerdotalism. At the moment the priest says, “This is my body” the element becomes the literal body of Christ according to Catholicism. For centuries, the RCC did not allow lay people to drink from the cup, for fear that the blood of Christ would be spilled but Vatican II (1962-1965) changed this (Grudem, Systematic Theology, page 991).

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