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Because wrong teaching is wrong teaching. The Church does not take a definitive stand only on some aspects of eschatology. She has on others. One of those stands was to cearly spell out that millinarianism in all its forms is false teaching.
Mind you I don't believe in the rapture but that's only because I believe that teaching is contrary to what the scriptures say about the return of Christ. That's why I can say it's wrong. If your church has no offical teaching on the events surrounding the second coming, how can it say with any certainty that XYZ theory is wrong?
Many people don't take "Because we say so" to be a valid answer either.
Well yes I agree it takes place after the tribulation period. The tribulatioin period began with the apostles and continues to this day.
There is no 1000 year period of rest. Our rest is eternal.
The Church does have official teaching.
Strange that the bible says otherwise
The bible doesn't say there is a literal 1000 years anything.
Where do you think the bible speaks of a literal 1000 years?
Revelation? That is an apocalyptic book full of symbolism and one of its greatest symbolic features are its use of numbers. 1000 is a symbolic number respresenting a very, very long time.
Show me where else you think in scriipture the phrase "a thousand years" is used.
Just because some things in the book of revelations is full of symbolism does not mean the whole entire thing is symbolic and that your only counter to it is that it's full of symbolism, some things in the book of revelations is fairly understandable and mentioned in other parts of the bible such as the harvest and the judgement.The bible doesn't say there is a literal 1000 years anything.
Where do you think the bible speaks of a literal 1000 years?
Revelation? That is an apocalyptic book full of symbolism and one of its greatest symbolic features are its use of numbers. 1000 is a symbolic number respresenting a very, very long time.
Show me where else you think in scriipture the phrase "a thousand years" is used.
The "Revelation is an Apocalytpic book" excuse is getting old. ...
Really?! That's great! I've asked around and all of the Catholics who participate regularly told me that there is no "offical" Catholic teaching on endtime events (specifically Daniel & Revelation). Can you please tell me what they are, or even point me in the direction of an offical statement?
Old, in fact ancient, and oh so true. You may prefer a more recent prophet - Ellen White, for example - but the truth is the truth no matter what names you use to denigrate it.
Well, wait a minute, you didn't specifiy end time events in daniel and revelation - first, that assumes we agree with you that there are end time events as you see them in those books.
Would you like to show me what you are referring to exactly in Daniel?
You and Python's must be cousins if not brothersWho mentioned anything about preference of prophets?...
You did, of course, every word about end times that you post is a word brought to us by Ellen White - prophet of Seventh Day Adventism.
... Even IF my words were from Sr White, you say it to me as if it's something I should be ashamed of. ...
It's something you ought to be up front about. She's the whole reason for Seventh Day Adventists believing that Daniel & Revelation inter-mesh as some kind of apocalyptic picture book with bits from Daniel setting the time table for the beginning times of bits in Revelation. The whole 2,300 days and 1844 and investigative judgement and heavenly temple service and ... and ... and ... come from Ellen White. You could save us all a lot of time by just saying "believe Ellen White as God's prophet for the remnant church in the end times"
Just because some things in the book of revelations is full of symbolism does not mean the whole entire thing is symbolic and that your only counter to it is that it's full of symbolism, some things in the book of revelations is fairly understandable and mentioned in other parts of the bible such as the harvest and the judgement.
Sorry, I'm not referencing anything particularly from Daniel. It's just that a ton of symbolism in Revelation can't be understood if you don't understand Daniel.
Your assumptions are identical as well. Even IF my words were from Sr White, you say it to me as if it's something I should be ashamed of. You're the one who has a problem with her, not me. Her view of eschatology came from the reformers before her who WEREN'T Adventist, but that's a story for another thread.
And you have NO idea how much or how little of her writings I've ever read. Either way, I'd rather stick with her, than with your Catechism.
.... The reformers who lived hundreds of years before Ellen White made the connection between Daniel and Revelation. ...
Oh please! Everybody knows that the first 'reformers' though they were in the last days themselves and they were keen, oh so keen, to identify the then Pope as Antichrist and the Catholic church as all the bad things in the Apocalypse of John. Those reformers would probably have executed Ellen White for pretending to the office of prophet and claiming direct inspiration for her writings! But that being said, you are very coy about Ellen White as the source for your perspective on end times. Don't be shy, we can take it, we might chuckle a little at some of the technicalities of her stated views but we can take it
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