Are all Calvinists amillenial?

NJBeliever · Oct 13, 2009

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 · Oct 14, 2009

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

A New Dawn · Oct 14, 2009

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

NJBeliever · Oct 14, 2009

thefivesolas said:
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 · Oct 14, 2009

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 · Oct 16, 2009

I'm premil and a Calvinist.

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

A New Dawn · Oct 16, 2009

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

JM · Oct 17, 2009

Was premil, Amil now.

Arete · Oct 20, 2009

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 · Oct 29, 2009

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 · Nov 1, 2009

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 · Dec 11, 2009

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 · Dec 11, 2009

I am Amillenial

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

GQ Chris · May 25, 2010

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

Pete_Martinez · Jun 1, 2010

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_ · Jun 8, 2010

NJBeliever said:
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 · Jun 10, 2010

Pete_Martinez said:
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 · Jun 10, 2010

AMR said:
I think you are speaking a wee bit hyperbolically here.

AMR

Well... maybe just a little bit

kenrapoza · Jun 10, 2010

AMR said:
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 · Jun 10, 2010

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

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