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I visited the GotQuestions.org site and found the following:
That's a pretty horrible and untrue answer. This is just a caricature of what Amil actually believes. I don't know how badly slanted this site was. Is it just in the answers to prophetic questions that we find this clear case of creating a straw-man?
Yours in the Lord,
jm
The amillennial view comes from using one method of interpretation for unfulfilled prophecy and another method for non-prophetic Scripture and fulfilled prophecy. Non-prophetic Scripture and fulfilled prophecy are interpreted literally or normally. But, according to the amillennialist, unfulfilled prophecy is to be interpreted spiritually, or non-literally. Those who hold to amillennialism believe that a spiritual reading of unfulfilled prophecy is the normal reading of the texts. This is called using a dual hermeneutic. (Hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation.) The amillennialist assumes that most, or all, unfulfilled prophecy is written in symbolic, figurative, spiritual language. Therefore, the amillennialist will assign different meanings to those parts of Scripture instead of the normal, contextual meanings of those words.
Read more: What is amillennialism?
Read more: What is amillennialism?
That's a pretty horrible and untrue answer. This is just a caricature of what Amil actually believes. I don't know how badly slanted this site was. Is it just in the answers to prophetic questions that we find this clear case of creating a straw-man?
Yours in the Lord,
jm