Bible Question:
Hi All, I've been through a few threads about "preterism," and I've been reading "Escotology 101" by Jim Wade (too much reading and too much bouncing around)and I've yet to find the TWO answers I'm looking for: If this view is true, where does that leave us? and how does it all end? I can't seem to find the answers for those questions. Does anyone else know? |
Bible Answer: Hello, Cheri (skccab) - This post, in a conscious effort to differ from "too much reading and too much bouncing around" that you report experiencing in your research, will attempt to do three things in the briefest manner possible: (1) to give the basic thesis of the preterist view of eschatology, (2) to name its major advocates, and (3) to evaluate its teaching. ........ (1) The core premise of the preterist view is that the book is concerned with the events of the first century and those alone; thus, all the events described in the Revelation were fulfilled centuries ago, perhaps during the time of Nero or Domitian. (2) Preterism was developed by the Jesuits and is still held by many in the Roman Catholic Church and by a few Protestants. (3) Espousal of the preterist view reduces the book of Revelation to very little more than a book of antiquity without a message for our time or for any other time later than the first century A. D. -- nothing more than a curious relic. This view therefore throws the Book of Revelation out of harmony with the rest of Scripture, engenders serious interpretative enigmas, causes more problems than it solves, and raises many questions while answering virtually none. --Hank |
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