The Bible teaches that God deals with man by means of a covenant relationship. Rather, they are subjective states of man's relation to God in both the Old and New Testaments - and today. Covenant Theology - The theological system developed by Reformed theologians taking the covenant as its overarching theme. A leading distinctive of dispensationalism is the sharp division between ethnic Israel and the church of Jesus Christ. All dispensationalists are premillennial, but not all premillennialists are dispensationalists.
Dualism is an ancient pagan heresy that deeply infected the church.
Many ancient Greek philosophers were dualistic. They found the body and human history distasteful, and longed for death as an escape to the world of the ideal, i.e., the spirit. Its chief distinctive is preoccupation with the individual conversion experience. It often neglects or downplays the objective authority of the entire Bible, the centrality of doctrine and theology in the church, and God's law as an abiding ethical standard for man. For most evangelicals, Christianity is chiefly an experience and morality, not a doctrinal confession of faith.