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Varieties of Christian Eschatology

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I guess I am an A-Millennialist. Sheesh!
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I personally have never thought about it much. I guess I am more a pragmatist. What do I need to know to be my best today.

But Lately I have taken a great interest in the current theological, what people believe. There is a vast spectrum.
 
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I guess I am an A-Millennialist. Sheesh!
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As it goes these days, I tend to take a more "Pin Ball Machine" approach to Eschatology but lean toward a Historicized Pre-millennial position. Without much prejudice, I can see how a case for an Amillennial position can be made, as well as one for Partial Preterism.
 
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How does Full Preterism support the claim that the 2nd coming and Last Judgment occurred at 70 AD?

One thing they do is take the texts about "these things" happening before "this generation" passes away as referring to everything--the 2nd coming and Last Judgment included. So they insist that these things had to have happened before the current generation who heard those words was gone. Whereas most Christians understand those things related to the Second Temple, or the mistreatment of the early Christians by Jewish authorities, and even viewing the Son of Man coming into His kingdom as referring to the Transfiguration/Ascension rather than the Parousia. Essentially everything gets condensed into the stuff about the Second Temple.

The worst, I'd argue, is actually how Full Preterism deals with Christian hope. Full Preterism denies the future resurrection of the body, the future renewal of creation, and instead argues that resurrection just means the soul going to heaven, and new heavens and new earth have nothing to do with the material creation. There is no Eschaton, no conclusion, no resolution outside of the subjective and personalized eschatology of going to heaven or going to hell--things down here on earth will just continue like this forever until the eventual heat death of the universe (presumably). There is no definitive conclusion to the problem of evil, there is no finality to the problem of death, injustice continues down here and the only address to justice and injustice is personal judgment at death.

There's a reason why Full Preterism is considered heretical by the majority of mainstream Christianity.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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One thing they do is take the texts about "these things" happening before "this generation" passes away as referring to everything--the 2nd coming and Last Judgment included. So they insist that these things had to have happened before the current generation who heard those words was gone. Whereas most Christians understand those things related to the Second Temple, or the mistreatment of the early Christians by Jewish authorities, and even viewing the Son of Man coming into His kingdom as referring to the Transfiguration/Ascension rather than the Parousia. Essentially everything gets condensed into the stuff about the Second Temple.

The worst, I'd argue, is actually how Full Preterism deals with Christian hope. Full Preterism denies the future resurrection of the body, the future renewal of creation, and instead argues that resurrection just means the soul going to heaven, and new heavens and new earth have nothing to do with the material creation. There is no Eschaton, no conclusion, no resolution outside of the subjective and personalized eschatology of going to heaven or going to hell--things down here on earth will just continue like this forever until the eventual heat death of the universe (presumably). There is no definitive conclusion to the problem of evil, there is no finality to the problem of death, injustice continues down here and the only address to justice and injustice is personal judgment at death.

There's a reason why Full Preterism is considered heretical by the majority of mainstream Christianity.

-CryptoLutheran

Wow. Thanks for the insight.
 
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