Hi, TheEditor. I'm sure JR can, and probably will, respond to what you've pointed out here, but in the meantime, perhaps I can fill in some blanks.TheEditor wrote:I have no dog in this fight, but I think what Michelle was asking, JR, is what does Preterism have to do with any of it? You stated:
My understanding of Preterism is that God fulfills His punishments just as he did in the past, and He will do so again.
To whcih Michelle responded:
how are the punishments for sin specifically tied to the preterist view of prophecy?
I'm not sure if that was answered.![]()
Regards, Brenden.
Recently, JR cautioned us to consider his whole corpus when deriving meaning from his posts.
Back in December, 2012, he posted this long post in the thread titled "Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children." Here is a snippet with reference to Preterism:
(I did the bolding. All the other emphatic punctuation is from the original.)I think interpreting love to mean God 'must' save everyone when God has 'not' put it that way is putting your thinking into His mouth, rather than listening to what has come out of His mouth.
God has told us to believe what He has said, and believe He will bring it to past.
Ever since this Universalist UR discussion came up I feel I wandered into an episode of the Twilight Zone, everything felt right until I came upon this, but now a lot of the other silence makes sense; the Preterist doctrine opens the door for Universalism. The Preterist doctrine allows one to swipe away 'all' the judgments of scripture as if they 'all' already happened, leaving a glorious future for 'all'.
Am I wrong on this? Please tell me I am wrong!
I believe jricitelli is responding to his own plea for clarification. Maybe. I could be wrong. I often am.
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