Chafer, a writer representing a view close to Scofield’s, states the idea of two parallel destinies in uncompromising form (“Dispensationalism,” p. 448): The dispensationalist believes that throughout the ages God is pursuing two distinctive purposes: one related to the earth with earthly people and earthly objectives involved, while the other is related to heaven with heavenly people and heavenly objectives involved. Why should this belief be deemed so incredible in the light of the facts that there