Nope. You're putting the cart before the horse, bro.
Darby was not "a Dispensationalist" when he first started out.
Neither was O'Hair.
Neither was I.
You are erroneously suggesting exactly what the Dispy is often erroneously accused of by his enemies - that the Dispy comes to the Scripture with his "Dispensational Bias" already in place.
That might be your lens; DP. It is not mine.
I leave the Dispensationalism at the door - each and every time I study.
If it is still there after I am through with my study, I embrace it once more; if it is not; I attend to that.
Case in point - when it comes to arriving at the actual sense, say, of 1 Cor. 2's "comparing spiritual things with spiritual" many a "Dispensationalist" only end up revealing their obviously poor study approach; if they even have a consistently sound one, to begin with.
Actual, sound, objective study of that passage reveals that is is actually Dispensational.
In contrast, many a so called "Dispensationalist" inconsistently concludes that Paul is talking about comparing Scripture with Scripture.
Which is ludicrous, because he was talking about brand spankin new, never before revealed information (or visions) given his spirit by the Spirit of God.
He even says the information he is talking about was not previously revealed; and that it has been revealed to him.
Meaning, not only was he not even talking about comparing the Scriptures with one another; but what exactly would he have had to compare his revelation with - it was new information.
Here is a case where "being a Dispensationalist" going in, is actually a hindrance, rather than a help.
If "being a Dispensationalist" means merely parroting what some teacher one was overly impressed by, was nevertheless, off about.
Or if it means not actually studying things out anew; each time.
Recall that I defined "a hybrid" as a fusing together of two things that are different; and that doing so can turn out either sound or unsound.
Paul is actually asserting that he is righlty fusing together those words that might aptly describe the imagery of the things of God that the Spirit has revealed to Paul's spirit.
Fusing or pairing those two things together, is what that EARLY Modern English use of the word phrase "comparing...with" is also referring to - by its use, within Paul's narrative, there.
Paul's would be a sound "hybrid" of those two - of his God given imagery, together with his God given word descriptions of said imagery.
He is actually asserting once more, his distinctly unique God given Apostleship.
What does many a so called "Dispensationalist" do with that passage?
They end up at their own "hybrid" or fusing together of things that are different.
In their case, an unsound one.
Either they sloppily parrot what they heard from someone else on that passage; or if they actually attempt to study it out - read their LATER Modern English into the phrase "comparing...with."
Personally, I find it difficult to respect much that such individuals assert is supposedly sound.
No, bro; it is best to leave all bias - including the "Dispensational" one, at the door.
Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Rom. 5:8
