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Originally Posted by Bible-believer
1Co 9:17
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
Eph 1:10
That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Eph 3:2
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Col 1:25
Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
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Odd that despite the appearance of the word "dispensation" in whatever version of the bible you are using (KJV?), I cannot discover that the use of the word is in any way meant to imply some unifying method of understanding the whole of the scripture, but rather an alternative way of saying something else (that other versions say much more clearly). For example, in 1 Cor 9, "dispensation" is not a magical word, but rather part of a more archaic way of saying that Paul was given a charge (to preach the gospel). Not to understand "dispensation" as some kind of overarching principle of everything.
Of all the ways that each of these passages could have been worded (both in the time of King James and today) and we latch onto one of them has defining doctrine that the alternatives would suggest was never even imagined by the translators.