If you are so familiar with what amil teaches then why don't you already know the answer to this question?
Well thank you for thinking that I do know what the amil teaches. But it's certainly not because s.g. offered any explanations or defense of the amil teachings.
As it happens, at the time that I asked I didn't know the answer. But afterwards I took the time to look it up since I decided that looking elsewhere would likely be the only way that I'd find out.
Infinite. It comes from God.
Well, finally an attempt to defend the amil theology.
But it's wrong according to the information that I found.
Amillennial theology actually began with a school of theology at Alexandria, Egypt in the beginning of the third century which proposed that scripture should be allegorized. Most of this theology was later rejected as heretical, but the allegorization of prophecy was retained by Augustine and incorporated into Catholic doctrine. The later reformed theology of the Protestants retained this teaching.
Augustine taught that the Church was living in the millennial period. For that reason many in the Church fully expected the second coming around 1000 AD.
There is the proof of what I said in my previous post that it's the amil that are date setters. While the premil are not.
The early fathers of the first two centuries of the Church were premillennial, meaning that they thought that Jesus would come back before the promised earthly kingdom actually started. Some included were, Pothinus, Justin Martyr, Melito, Hegesippus, Tatian, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus and Apollinaria.
{this and the above indented portion are excerpts from the article "amillennal theology is in error"}
Since yesterday it's the only one I've had time to find so forgive the lack of more thorough evidence.
Jesus Himself said "No one knows the day or hour" in regard of when He shall come, for He gave that answer in response to the question they had asked "What is the sign or your Coming?"
Therefore, no one can know when He will come back so the premil have nothing upon which to set a date.
However, I am aware of those few premil who still insist that they can know. But they violate the words of Jesus in doing it.
The majority of premil honor the words of Jesus, respect the truth of God's word and don't set dates, and also use scripture to show them and others that it's wrong to do it.
Please explain what you mean here? What did the Y2K situation have to do with amil? Nothing. You're just randomly throwing out nonsense here.
I don't mind explaining what I said but don't expect me to explain why you thought that I'd deny for you that the y2k has anything to do with the amil theology. Apparently the amils are so geared to deny everything that they distort what someone posted.
The case is that s.g. accused the premils of having something to do with the y2k. There's no proof that the premil ever used y2k to set dates of a coming doom.
At the most all that can be said is that according to technology the disaster would happen at the turnover of the new year.
Then conspiracy theories arose, when conspiracy theorists falsely called prophecy teachers used Bible scripture erroneously in the attempt to make it seem as though God had predicted the disaster ages ago. It was erroneously assumed that the premils were responsible.
But, the conspiracy theorists didn't, nor did the premil's predict or set that date,
the scientific tech world did.
Please explain in detail what in the world you are talking about here. Amil made no predictions about the Y2K situation. You're just being ridiculous.
Wait. Are those the magic words that someone must use in order that you amils will explain in detail concerning your amil theology?
Well, anyway, when s.g. accused the premils of predicting the y2k disaster.. I'll just use your judgement and say that he or she is the ridiculous one.
The thing is.. that you haven't proved that the amil's had nothing to do with the y2k.. even if someone had accused you.. even at that you just think that your denial is sufficient.
So in that case, I could have shortened my post by just denying everything and told you that you were ridiculous or talking nonsense.. instead of taking the time to do as you asked and explaining my previous responses to s.g.. to you.