Subject: The second coming of Jesus |
Bible Note: Radioman, Well, thanks for inquiring about them. Literally every time I talk with a nonPreterist, their attacks are based on misinformation. Sadly though, most will not inquire or discuss at any length with us. This is very, very, unfortunate. Allow me to add a touch of personal info to this. I was not raised a Preterist. Who is!?! I was a typical dispensational premillennialist. After studying for a few years, I realized, though popular, this theology was riddled with errors. I moved on to Amillennialism and Calvinism. I am still a Calvinist. Much better. However, in studying Amillennialism I came across a view I had never heard before, Preterism. At first glance I thought it was utterly absurd. This is actually why I tend to be extremely calm and patient with others, I still remember my first encounter with the “crazy” view! But, I knew that only Truth ultimately stands up. Soooo, I decided to run it through the wringer and be done with it once and for all and bad mouth it as complete lunacy. So I sat down and studied it. Then I panicked. I was having a hard time disproving it Biblically. Then I asked my scholarly friends about it. They couldn’t Biblically disprove it either. Then I started noticing “time indicators” in the Bible. And, it clicked! At that instant, the Bible made sense to me, ALL OF IT. There were no difficulties, no hard verses, no bending and twisting to explain. And so, I am a Preterist. However, I will say this. I am always, always, willing to hear people’s sides and opinions about it. And the exact moment it is Biblically disproven, is the exact same moment I stop being a Preterist! But, until then, I suggest people do the same. If you can not disprove it, perhaps you can’t because it’s CORRECT! I mean this jist is that Christ said he would be back in one generation. He said this around 30 AD. Within a generation, 40 years to the Jews, ALL the things he had listed at the Olivet discourse had come to pass. That’s really something. Oh well, take care, thanks for listening, please feel free to ask questions too, I will do my best to answer them! SUEDE Revelation 1:1 “The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to him to show his servants what must SOON TAKE PLACE…” |