More recently most scholars have settled on seven dispensations. Each one has begun with an agreement between God and man that man has subsequently broken, causing the agreement to fail and requiring a judgment. Here are the seven dispensations in chronological order. 1) Innocence: Between the Creation and the Fall of Man in the Garden More @Wikipedia
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