What's Your Eschatology? (Quizfarm.com)

Post by **_Allyn** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:13 am

My quiz results:

What's your eschatology?
You scored as a Preterist
You take the historical setting of the Bible very seriously, and believe that passages like Daniel 7 and Mark 13 were speaking about their own day rather than the End of Time, though there will still be a time when Jesus is 'unveiled' and there will be final judgement and new creation.
Preterist

100%
Amillenialist

100%
Postmillenialist

50%
Moltmannian Eschatology

25%
Left Behind

25%
Dispensationalist

0%
Premillenialist

0%

Post by **_darin-houston** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:11 am

2. I most certainly have NOT read them. I've scanned a few pages from a friend who had one (and trust me, I most certainly would not purchase them either, unless, perhaps, I may get invited to a bonfire this fall)......

So what are you Darin?

My results are posted above -- I am firmly amil/partial preterist at present. I read half of the Left Behind series. I quit reading them before I became amil, not because I disagreed with them necessarily, but because they quit being "good." They're designed so that you can pick them up mid-stream, and I got tired of reading the same basic back story over and over. The first book or two were actually pretty decent stories, with good characters, etc.

I was really excited to have them available and people I knew were being exposed to the gospel through them and thinking biblically for the first time about things beyond Sunday School, so I was "on the bandwagon" for a year or so. I was dispensational, I guess, but just by default -- as Steve has said so many times, I just had no idea there was another view (which makes me somewhat bitter towards all my pastors and sunday school teachers in the past). Something, though, just didn't strike me as "correct" about it all, and putting the ideas to real life scenarios made it seem just outright "silly" as we got towards the arrival of the antichrist and stuff.

Another reason I was so excited was that I had tried "so hard" to understand eschatology timelines -- I knew it was complicated, but I've got a better than average intelligence and figured that if so many people seemed to understand these illustrated and illumniated depictions of the various comings and goings and other elements of eschatology, I should be able to at least understand the basics, but it just never coalesced. That's not a determinative factor in discerning truth, but truth is usually pretty simple and I believe God's word should be at least somewhat understandable if you really try.

Once I heard the amil position, it just "made sense." There are still things I don't have a firm grasp on, but I'm ok with some missing pieces for now -- at least the system is intellectually honest and seems mostly consistent (as I see it so far).

I would like to know more about the historic premil position (just because I think early beliefs should be considered carefully before jettisoning them), but I feel no real compelling need to do so right now as so many other things are more profitable to me to study for now.

On a related note, people say eschatology (and other debatable things like Calvinism) aren't important topics to discuss/study among believers. I used to think that, too. However, I actually think now that eschatology is important to biblical study in general. Letting go of the confusion and letting scripture inform scripture in a way to make some sense out of it has opened up the rest of scripture to me.

The bottom line to me now is -- if no one were pushing the mainstream positions on these ares where we can differ as if they were the only positions, I could agree it's not important. But, when people are getting dogmatic in such an area, I think it should be confronted. If a teacher can honestly say there are other positions, and merely state their own (as Steve does), I can leave it untouched, but it galls me to hear them preach things as dogma just because they don't want to have to admit to people there are things they don't understand -- if they do it out of ignorance, that's one thing; however, leaving the hearer in a state of misinformation and false assurance of truth to appease some self-doubt or pride is dangerous. Either way, though, the hearers deserve to know there are alternative views that are not heretical.

Post by **_Paidion** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:13 am

When my wife and I were staying at a friend's house in Texas, I noticed the "Left Behind" series of books on her book shelf. I read as many of them as I could before we had to leave. I have always enjoyed good science fiction.

Most (but not all) people who hold to [pre-millenialism] believe that either before or during the great 7-year tribulation the faithful will be raptured and thus avoid most of the apocalyptic unpleasantness that everyone else will have to endure.

I have never heard of a historic pre-millenialist who believed that by being caught up after the tribulation period "would thus avoid most of the unpleasantness that everyone else will have to endure." I and all others with whom I am familiar, including the early fathers, believe(d) that those who are alive at the coming of the Lord will be caught up to meet Him (on his way down to earth to reign). The word ranslated "meet" is the same one used when the people of a city used to leave the city to meet their king who had conquered his enemies, and to rejoicingly accompany him back to the city. So it will be with our Lord's disciples when He returns. They will rule and reign with Him. They will also share in the war that is raged against the saints at the end of the millenium --- and conquer.

Post by **_Paidion** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:49 pm

Click on

THE RAPTURE!!!

Post by **_Allyn** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:28 pm

I saw this today on another board. It has not received a response but wondered how you all might answer it.

When Did/Will The Millennium Begin - When Will It End?
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Premil -
Begins at Second Coming - Ends 1000 years later

Amil -
Began at Ascension of Christ - Ends at the beginning of Satan's "little season" just before the Second Coming

Full Preterism -
Began at Ascension of Christ - Ended 70 AD

Partial Preterism - Began 70 AD - Ends at the Second Coming

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I believe Partial Preterism is not defined well here. I believe PP believes the 1000 years begins at the cross and continues until Satan is released from his inability to deceive the nations.

Post by **_Jim** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:21 am

What's your eschatology?
You scored as a Preterist
You take the historical setting of the Bible very seriously, and believe that passages like Daniel 7 and Mark 13 were speaking about their own day rather than the End of Time, though there will still be a time when Jesus is 'unveiled' and there will be final judgement and new creation.
Amillenialist
100%
Preterist
100%
Moltmannian Eschatology
85%
Postmillenialist
50%
Premillenialist
25%
Dispensationalist
0%
Left Behind
0%

Well thats me for sure, how ironic I was a strong dispensationalist when I first became a Christian.

Jim