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The above snipet from your latest rant will suffice to demonstrate your obstinate refusal to consider any interpretation but your own. I have already said that the kingdom was established before the foundation of the world, was inaugurated in history through Christ's death and resurrection, is...

I stand by my original statement. I do not presume myself to be more powerful or persuasive than Christ himself. If his resurrection is not proof enough for you that he is the fulfillment of all the prophecies, then I hardly think it is possible for me to do so. Jesus rose from the dead, the...

All prophecies ultimately point to Christ and the resurrection. No prophecy can be understood without seeing Jesus' death and resurrection as the decisive act of God in human history. Because Jesus said it was: "Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you...

Jesus rose from the dead. What further proof do you require? The kingdom was established before the foundation of the world, was inaugurated in history with the death and resurrection of Jesus, is presently advancing against the kingdoms of this world by the patient endurance of the saints...

Biblical "scholars" love to deconstruct books of the Bible to find "more than one author." The most notorious examples are the "JEDP theory" for the Pentateuch, which holds that the books of Moses were "edited" by four different "traditions" at four different periods of Israel's history: the...

But no work of fiction could have prepared us for this kind of left-wing idiocy.

No. I am not a fan of any of the popular "millennial theories." They all have their strengths and weaknesses, but none of them really tell the whole story. If I had to come up with a term to describe my views, it would probably be "trans-millennial."

[/i] I do not need an education on the sermons of John Wesley, as they are part of the established doctrinal standards of my denomination. Rest assured, he was no dispensationalist, and there are any number of Wesleyan scholars (eg. Mulholland, Greider, Witherington, Runyon) who will be happy...

I must admit, this is the first time I have ever heard of someone citing the rapture as a reason for not quitting their job!

So, what on earth are we doing here? :confused:

Don't confuse Real Presence (the doctrine of the Eucharist held in common by Methodists, Anglicans, Catholics, and Orthodox) with transubstantiation (the narrow Catholic attempt to explain the Real Presence). I believe both in Christ's ongoing presence in the midst of the believing community...

But that does not explain what his understanding of the Eucharist was. Those (such as myself) who believe the Eucharist is an escahtological event are less likely to be dispensationalists because we see in the celebration of the sacrament both a participation in the past and present work of God...

QED So, what's your point? That "the end" will come once the Wycliffe folks finish all their translating? Those Bibles have to be distributed after they've been translated; and those who receive them have to be taught how to read and interpret them, not to mention how to find salvation in...

Now, you're sounding like a dispensationalist! :cool:

[/color][/font] I suppose it goes without saying that Scofield did not understand the true meaning of the Eucharist as both a memorial of Christ's passion and the Church's offering of itself as a living sacrifice in union with Christ's offering on its behalf. As our communion liturgy reads...

You are apparently not a dispensationalist of the Darby/Scofield variety. You sound more like a Calvinist who leans toward pre-millennialism.

Looks like a typical rapturist site: long on pointing out the deficiencies of other views, but short on understanding its own inadequacies. Didn't Jesus say something about paying attention to the speck in your brother's eye while ignoring the log in your own eye? For what it's worth, here's a...

You won't get any argument from me on that one. I get to preach Mark 13 next Sunday. Maybe I should post a transcript of the sermon here and see how the dispy's react.:D

Too long to download, but I noticed the headline at the top of the page: "2nd Coming or Rapture? Scripture speaks of two events." I would certainly take issue with any interpretation which comes to that conclusion.

I never cease to be amazed by those who call themselves Christians who cannot understand something so simple. Ideological blindness is the only explanation I can come up with for the willingness of so many dispensationalists to twist this passage into a prophecy of a yet-to-come "Antichrist"...