Whether by omission or commission, not a word was written here about the Pope’s recent visit to the United States. Frankly I don’t have the context to fairly speak about Roman Catholicism and the role of the Pope. My exposure to the Roman Catholic Church is limited to a few months of attending different services [...]
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On the heels of Bryan’s recent post that Revelation 20 was John’s message of “hope, understanding, and calls for endurance” for the persecuted first-century Christians, rather than a thesis of millennialism, comes a new post from Steve at Undeception focused on the consummation of Christ’s reign and the reward of living in the Kingdom, not [...]
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In his essay, “Hyper-Preterism and Unfolding Biblical Eschatology“, published as part of When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism (ed. Keith Mathison), Richard Pratt Jr. challenges the full preterist position that the prophetic time texts of the New Testament can only be read as they are stated and, as such, are an [...]
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Bryan Lilly has posted a new discussion of Revelation 20, focused on the idea that “Revelation 20 is not John’s doctoral thesis of the millennium”, but that he (John) is “writing to a group of people in the first century that were going through intense persecution [...] to give them hope, understanding, and calls for [...]
Evidently that was the exact date of the opening of the First Seal (Revelation 6:1), according to Ronald Weinland, author of “2008 - God’s Final Witness“. Proclaiming himself revealed as one of the two end-times witnesses (Revelation 11:3-13), Weinland summarizes his most recent book:
Although the Church of God has not been accustomed to having a [...]
Roger Overton of The A-Team Blog has conducted a three-part interview with Kim Riddlebarger, author of A Case for Amillennialism and The Man of Sin.
Interview links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Some of the questions covered in the interview include:
What does a healthy Christian understanding of eschatology look like? How much of our [...]
**Update** I’ve expanded the opening paragraphs from the original posting to provide a little more context. I also changed the article title to be less negative.
On my About page, I wrote that:
“I grew up in a non-denominational Christian church and never paid any attention to doctrine, creed or theological issues, if such things [...]
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I was first exposed to the (partial) preterist viewpoint a number of years ago and it made a very logical argument in terms of understanding Israel’s covenantal history, as well as John’s writing in an original context. Since then, I’ve been under the perspective that the majority of OT prophetic text, the gospels’ account of [...]
A while back I’d posed the question here on this blog of whether there was or had been a purely scriptural critique of full (hyper) preterism. I was looking for a rebuttal strictly from the Bible, not based on creedal tradition, which most responses seem to start with. At the same time, I submitted the [...]
I’ve long been a proponent of the image of Satan as Mephistopheles, that is, the spirit of negation, a demonic character incapable of his own creative acts, but who instead parodies and mimics and distorts the creative work of God and the lives of men. It gives credence to God as the sole Creator and [...]
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