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Preterism, both full & partial, are false.

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Preterism is just plain unbelief, imho.
Or, futurism is just plain unbelief of many biblical verses saying it will all happen in the first century.

The main purpose of it is to avoid watching, as we were commanded to do.
The first church was commanded to do that, not us. You are ignoring the context of biblical writings.

Preterism lacks any comprehension of eternity
Does not make any sense. Its preterism that believes we are in eternity now.
 
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I'm trying get you to explain what you're saying. It seems you'd rather be cryptic instead.
I'm saying that it's best that a person know as much about the future as God has revealed and about the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy in our time, so as to be better witnesses for Jesus and His saving Gospel.
 
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I've posted Scriptures many times, from Daniel thru Revelation. Evidently, you haven't been reading all my posts.
 
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Provide a quote of any Scripture which contains the exact expression "the antichrist" referring to dispensationalism's delusional single future antichrist.
There are none, but it's very-evident that the beast will be the worst human antichrist of all time. I shall continue to believe that, & post accordingly.
 
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There are none, but it's very-evident that the beast will be the worst human antichrist of all time. I shall continue to believe that, & post accordingly.

It's not evident in Scripture.

It does not appear in Scripture.

You're free to believe whatever you wish.

As are the cults.
 
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It's not evident in Scripture.

It does not appear in Scripture.

You're free to believe whatever you wish.

As are the cults.
What I believe is based upon Scriptural evidence. There's no separate beast and antichrist. The false prophet, while also an antichrist, as is anyone not FOR Christ, won't be as evil as his boss will be.
 
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What I believe is based upon Scriptural evidence. There's no separate beast and antichrist. The false prophet, while also an antichrist, as is anyone not FOR Christ, won't be as evil as his boss will be.

Based upon Scriptural evidence, Martin Luther and the Reformers recognized and declared the apostasized papacy to be the prevailing antichrist of their time.

Through God's inspiration and empowerment, they engaged it in spiritual battle, and won.

It was due to the Reformers' fearless proclamation of that truth, often to the death, that the antichrist of the apostasized papacy was defeated.

There was no Reformer who believed in a futurized antichrist. That was a contrivance of the Jesuit counter-reformation, in an attempt to blunt the effectiveness of the Reformation message.

That is the contrivance which dispensational delusionism embraces and perpetuates today.
 
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I've posted Scriptures many times, from Daniel thru Revelation. Evidently, you haven't been reading all my posts.

Not true. You have presented nothing convincing to support your beliefs. You are going to have to show us some Scripture that teaches (1) a rapture of the Church, (2) immediately followed by a literal seven-year tribulation, (3) immediately followed by a 3rd coming.
 
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To be fair, he does post scripture. But where the argument gets abandoned is when you show how proper hermeneutics make his argument weak. Then the discussion gets abandoned, until a few pages later where the argument gets repeated.
 
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To be fair, he does post scripture. But where the argument gets abandoned is when you show how proper hermeneutics make his argument weak. Then the discussion gets abandoned, until a few pages later where the argument gets repeated.

I know that. But i am talking about the test he applies of other views he does not meet himself. That was my point.
 
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But there is for preterism, & it's long-expired.
The problem that it did not happen to be global or too literal is not the "preterist problem".

Its your problem, because you expect something that did not happen in history, but should. Jews also expected the coming of the Messiah to look differently. And then they had to invent judaism to somehow continue in their religion after the temple was destroyed and prophets ceased to exist. So some Christians invented futurism.

A preterist may not know every detail who was who and how it exactly happened, but simply trusts the words of the Bible that it somehow happened. And some events are possible to be identified even after two millenia, because they were so significant.
 
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Are you suggesting the whole debate started between Luke and Matthew? Luke was a preterist and Matthew was a futurist?
 
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Prets try to reduce "inconvenient" Scriptures to "figurative/symbolic" status to attempt to cover their lack of evidence for their doctrine, but that won't work, either.

Says the Guy who must reduce the over 100 "inconvenient" scriptures that teach the event "must shortly come to pass, Without Delay, Is Near, At Hand, About to take place, in a very little while" to "figurative/symbolic" status to attempt to prop up his doctrine of Delay...

Maybe it's only ok when you do it?
 
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Which was before the creation of the earth, so the Second Coming was in Genesis 1:1. Except Jesus was talking about a future event before the Cross happened.

The Cross was the day of Redemption. Not everyone has died yet. Until that last person dies, death has not been defeated. It takes more than two verses to make a point.

How do you reconcile 10k, when John defines 144k? Are they the same set, or a different set?
 
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When comes to many of the views of eschatology, I'm pretty sure I won't know for sure in my present lifetime. I do know that I've been hearing the trib, the rap, the anti etc are right around the corner for the last 50 years.
And those since the Cross, have been hearing it for 1991 years. Meaning it still has not happened. Not that it cannot happen.
 
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Who is claiming the last days are over? Do partial preterist declare them over? Do partial preterist declare we are still in them? From whose perspective, and which last days are being defined?
 
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And those since the Cross, have been hearing it for 1991 years. Meaning it still has not happened. Not that it cannot happen.
But Bible says it will happen soon, not 2,000 years later. Thats the main problem of futurism.
 
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I think that would be a historist view. They did not ask when the age would end. They asked about the end of things, the time Jesus would come back and the end at that time, not the end of an age. They did not even understand about ages. Unless you are using ages like a dispensational, you can not even prove they understood their own question. God understood their question, and answered as if they asked the question properly.

So to you, was it the end of the OT age or the NT age they were asking about? Because if you do not recognize the different ages, then they were asking about the end of all things, not the end of the OT covenant. Jesus ended that at the Cross. There was no need to end it with the destruction of Jerusalem. 70AD had nothing to do with the NT and thus was never a point necessary in the NT. The second coming was about the end of the church and the fullness of the Gentiles, not the Law of Moses.

Preterist demand the end of all things is 70AD, which is clearly not the end of all things.
 
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Preterist demand the end of all things is 70AD, which is clearly not the end of all things.

Even in the futurist paradigm, the New Heavens and Earth abide for eternity, so whatever "end" they "demand" is still future, is clearly not the "end of all things" either, is it?

Seems that problem exists for futurists too...

Or, maybe it's different when futurists do it?
 
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