Many Questions

[michaelmonfre]

Did Beza, Calvins Pupil Systemize The Doctrine Of Double Predestination?

What Is Hyper-calvinism? Non-calvinists Consider Gill A Hyper-calvinist. Is This True?

What Is The Difference Between A Partial Preterist And Amillinialism?

 

[Imblessed]

Michael

you may want to split these questions up into different threads, so they can be answered more easily.

As for preterism and amillenialism..... here is a good site that discusses these from a reformed standpoint.... www.mountainretreatorg.net I learned sooo much from this site!!! It's excellent, and not only from the eschetology standpoint!

And the other questions--- others can answer better than me!

 

[frumanchu]

Did Beza, Calvins Pupil Systemize The Doctrine Of Double Predestination?

Good question. I'm not sure whether or not he formally systematized it. I do know that Beza was solidly a supralapsarian where Calvin was not necessarily so.

What Is Hyper-calvinism?

Depends on who you ask and what the context it. Quite often it is used simply as a pejorative term by non-Calvinists to divide Calvinists up and paint them as extremists. It usually accompanies an attempt to paint "hypo-Calvinists" as normal Calvinists and the rest of us as being extreme in our views.

When used by Calvinists, it normally refers to Calvinists who take their view of God's sovereignty in election beyond Scripture to the point of not wanting to preach the Gospel to all men but rather seek to find the elect and preach the Gospel only to them.

Non-calvinists Consider Gill A Hyper-calvinist. Is This True?

Most non-Calvinists would consider lots of Calvinists to be hyper-Calvinists.

What Is The Difference Between A Partial Preterist And Amillinialism?

The two are not mutually exclusive. I happen to be a partial preterist amillennialist myself. The partial preterism describes the view that much (but NOT all) of the prophesies such as those in the Olivet Discourse were fulfilled in the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in AD70. The amillennialism describes the view that the millennial reign of Christ spoken of in Revelation 20 is figurative and not a literal 1,000 years. The term "amillennial" is somewhat misleading because it's not that we don't believe in a millennial reign, just that the duration of that reign is not that of a literal 1000 years.