Are all Calvinists amillenial?

[NJBeliever]

Just curious. I seem to encounter that more and more and I'm just wondering if being Amil is part of the tenants of Neo Calvinism. God bless.

 

[the particular baptist]

I am not a neo-calvinist, but i am amil. Historically many Calvinists have been amil.

 

[A New Dawn]

I am not amillenial. But then, I don't know what a neo-Calvinist is.

 

[NJBeliever]

I am not a neo-calvinist, but i am amil. Historically many Calvinists have been amil.

Interesting. I have not seen how the two positions are so connected.

So what is your theology with respect to Zephenaiah 2, Psalm 83, Isaiah 19 etc.?

 

[mlqurgw]

The original founders of the US were Calvinist Puritans for the most part and as such were postmil. That is why they came here, avoiding religious persecution notwithstanding. Their idea was to begin a society that was christian and eventually overcome the world by the Gospel. Now there has historicaly been premil Calvinists, John Gill, as well as amil Calvinists. Though the premil Calvinists don't hold to the Dispensational premil view.

 

[itisdeliciouscake]

I'm premil and a Calvinist.

I'm not sure why so many Calvinists tend to be amil tbh...

 

[A New Dawn]

I am a pretrib rapture, post-trib, premil return Calvinist.

 

[JM]

Was premil, Amil now.

 

[Arete]

For the record, I'm pre-mill. I used to wonder if I had to be a-mill to be truly Calvinistic, but a good friend and pastor (who was a-mill) clarified the issue for me.

 

[heymikey80]

I've generally found amillenialism is considered "big" in Calvinism because it doesn't have strong advocates elsewhere. Most Reformed seminaries have strongly amillenial professors, too. So it nets out to a greater recognition of amillenialism. I'm not so sure a greater quantity are amil though.

 

[kenrapoza]

Yeah the two are not necessary. Reformed theologians tend towards amillinnialism because of the centrality of Christ in both testaments and the overarching covenants of works and grace. When reformed folk speak of eschatology, many contemporary evangelicals aren't aware of it because it is often in the context of how Christ fulfills the types and shadows of the old covenant and not necessarily what is happening in the present state of Israel. However, there are plenty of Calvinist/reformed folks who are not amil. Up until not too long ago, a good deal of the reformed were postmillennial. So you can be a Calvinist and be pre- post- or amil. However, if you were dispensational premil as opposed to historic/reformed premil, then there's nothing to say that you couldn't still hold to the Doctrines of Grace, but you probably wouldn't consider yourself "reformed" in the full sense of the word.

But amillennialism is not just a reformed/Calvinist thing - the Lutherans are also amil. Some of the neo-calvinists have more of a realized, post-mil-ish type of eschatology.

 

[xapis]

I've found amil to be the default position among ministers in the OPC. There are some postmil men. The historic premil's are few and far between.

 

[DD2008]

I am Amillenial

There are Amillenial, Postmillenial, and historic-premillenialists within our ranks that I have met.

 

[GQ Chris]

I am post-trib, and a Rookie in the reformed camp.

 

[Pete_Martinez]

Rare and endangered dispensational premillenial here. The reason that many Calvinists are amil is because Calvin was amil. If you follow Calvin consistently then your eschatological view will also be amil.

 

[Jon_]

Just curious. I seem to encounter that more and more and I'm just wondering if being Amil is part of the tenants of Neo Calvinism. God bless.

No, postmil is big in reformed circles, too. (Historic) premil less so.

 

[AMR]

The reason that many Calvinists are amil is because Calvin was amil.

I think you are speaking a wee bit hyperbolically here.

I don't think "many" who are Calvinists wound up with a particular view of the eschaton simply from a blind following of Calvin. Rather, they studied the matter, searched the Scriptures, testing their teachings against those of any person, elder, Calvin, etc., and then moved to their position.

AMR

 

[Pete_Martinez]

I think you are speaking a wee bit hyperbolically here.

AMR

Well... maybe just a little bit

 

[kenrapoza]

I think you are speaking a wee bit hyperbolically here.

I don't think "many" who are Calvinists wound up with a particular view of the eschaton simply from a blind following of Calvin. Rather, they studied the matter, searched the Scriptures, testing their teachings against those of any person, elder, Calvin, etc., and then moved to their position.

AMR

Agreed! To be consistently Reformed also entails that one should be very concerned about learning the Scriptures and Biblical doctrine. As such, Reformed folks should be less inclined to believe doctrines by default without studying them.

 

[GQ Chris]

I don't like to "allegorize" the endtimes, until there's a good reason to do it, I'll keep NOT doing it.