PRETERIST---->PRE-MILLENIAL

[Guest]

Does anyone here know of...or ever heard of anyone leaving the Full Preterist camp and moving over to Pre-Millenialism?

I've heard of Full Pret to Partial Pret. And oodles of people going from Pre-Mil to Pret...partial or full. But none the other way.

Just a curiosity...I haven't found any yet.

I would like to make contact with someone who has.

8) Pmike

[Guest]

WoWzers!!! Not one person.

Has anyone else even thought about this one before?

Hello...hello...helllo...ECHO...Echo...echo...

Pmike

[Guest]

hey mike-- maybe you'll be the first!

TK

[Guest]

hey mike-- maybe you'll be the first!

TK

Doesn't that seem strange though that people don't go from Pret to PreMil?

[Guest]

do you have a theory? my guess is that people who are full preterists reach that conclusion through their own study, simply because very few (that i know of) churches teach it. since dispensationalism is the general rule, at least in evangelical circles, people may switch to full or partial preterism when they hear alternative interpretations (generally through serious self-study or being exposed to teachers like steve g).

just guessing though.

TK

[Guest]

do you have a theory? my guess is that people who are full preterists reach that conclusion through their own study, simply because very few (that i know of) churches teach it. since dispensationalism is the general rule, at least in evangelical circles, people may switch to full or partial preterism when they hear alternative interpretations (generally through serious self-study or being exposed to teachers like steve g).

just guessing though.

TK

Welllll...I would hardly say that dispensationalism is the general rule. Seing as how it didn't really pick up speed until 1948 and especially with the Calvary Chapel movement and the likes of Hal Lindsay back in the 70's.

As far as a theory I don't know. It may be something of a natural progression. Kind of like school. 1st thru 12th grade. Once you've come to 12th grade you can't go back to 6th. I know for me, I was a futurist because that is what I had been taught by my favorite teachers. When people would ask me to prove it I would of course go to proof texts. But when I got to the point where I started reading my Bible on my own and really started going thru the prophets I started seeing alot of questions that couldn't be answered by scriptures alone.

To be quite frank with you I had never been thru the Bible cover to cover before I came across the preterist point of view. It is what actually caused me to go thru the whole thing. And since then thru the whole thing repetatively. I know for me it has been the Bible as a whole and repetition both reading and listening, that has led me to where I am at.

I think it was being at just the right time and just the right place in my studies that caused me to be open to the preterist perspective. I guess what it all boils down to is that once you embrace preterism...there is nothing left to go back to. What was shadow is now fulfilled. And like the book of Hebrews says...There's no going back to the shadow.

Thats it. 8) Mike

[Guest]

Pmike,

I think, when TK said that dispensationalism was "the rule," he was not saying that it was normative, nor the rule of orthodoxy. He just meant it is the ruling paradigm among modern evangelicals, which would certainly appear to be true.

I agree that it is hard to go backward, once your eyes have been opened. It really makes one wonder, though, once one has come this far...what lies ahead?

[Guest]

Pmike,

I think, when TK said that dispensationalism was "the rule," he was not saying that it was normative, nor the rule of orthodoxy. He just meant it is the ruling paradigm among modern evangelicals, which would certainly appear to be true.

I agree that it is hard to go backward, once your eyes have been opened. It really makes one wonder, though, once one has come this far...what lies ahead?

Sometimes I am more scared of what lies ahead. Knowledge can not do for the heart what hope can. With knowledge comes great responsiblity.

PMike

[Guest]

Sometimes I am more scared of what lies ahead. Knowledge can not do for the heart what hope can. With knowledge comes great responsiblity.

PMike

You can say that again.

[Guest]

YOU Know why Psycho..........Cuz people R taught the Bible is Gods Word. And thus, you must interpret it literally................in a western way. Thats why.

Most dont know what the texts really are. And of course, with what has already been said, the Paradigm, and over-literalism, and belief that God himself spoke this stuff.........= dispensationalism/futurism..........