Dispensationalism’s Half-Gospel

 11 He came to His own [Israel], and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. - John 1

14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. - Romans 9

When Paul gets to Romans 9-11, he does not suddenly stop talking about the Gospel and start talking about the end times or something else. The divorcing of soteriology from eschatology is our doing, not his. It is our Modernistic, atomistic proclivities in action. For Paul, it is all salvation.

Salvation is by God’s sovereign choice in election, not our choice or action. And He has chosen both Jews and Gentiles to be in one family. Gentiles began seeking Israel’s God very early in the era before Christ, even in Israel’s departure from Egypt. But in Christ, the curtain of the Temple was torn completely open, for both Jew and Gentile to have full access to God.

This uniting of Jew and Gentile is as much “the Gospel”, by the way the New Testament defines it, as is Jesus’s death and resurrection.

And so I can’t say that Dispensationalism is heretical on the Gospel. Christ’s death, His resurrection, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved - on the necessary basics, Dispensationalism preaches what is required. But in maintaining some future revisiting of the Old Covenant in Israel, those things which the New Testament says Christ has abolished in His death, and in maintaining some future division between Jew and Gentile, Dispensationalism does not define “The Gospel” as the New Testament does.