he writes, “The dispensationalist understands the promises made to Abraham to require two seeds, a physical and a spiritual seed for Abraham.”7 This becomes the basis for the dispensationalist’s notion that God has two mutually exclusive peoples—national Israel and the Gentile church—each with its own redemptive purposes and programs. This underlying hermeneutic leads Ryrie to the following conclusion: The dispensationalist recognizes two purposes of God and insists in maintaining the distinction