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Don't be disturbed when people accuse you of thinking you're God. The more you get to be like Me, the more they're going to think that way of you. They crucified Me for claiming that I was God. But I didn't claim I was God; I just claimed I walked with Him and that He was in Me. Hallelujah. That's what you're doing.
-- Kenneth Copeland, "Voice of Victory" Vol. 15, No. 2, 2/87
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Submitted by Virgil on Tuesday, January 06 @ 06:58:40 PST (154 reads)
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News: An Interview with Andrew Perriman
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As a frequent reader of Open Source Theology, I can say that Andrew Perriman is one of the most accessible authors I have ever encountered; he readily replies to those asking questions and loves interacting with his readers openly. Rarely does he write something that has no deep meaning and he is one of the most generous and thoughtful people I interact with. So I am very excited to finally bring to you an interview in which Andrew will discuss some of his new projects and talk about where his work and journey has taken him. Andrew is the author of The Coming of the Son of Man, Otherways, and Re: Mission: Biblical Mission for a PostBiblical Church.
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Submitted by Virgil on Saturday, January 03 @ 12:13:22 PST (286 reads)
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Preterism: The Destruction of the Finally Impenitent
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by by Clark H. Pinnock, McMaster Divinity College
All Christian doctrines undergo a certain amount of development over time. Issues such as Christology and soteriology are taken up at various periods in church history and receive a peculiar stamp from intellectual and social conditions obtaining at the time. A variety of factors in society and philosophical thought impact upon the way in which issues are viewed and interpreted. All doctrinal formulations reflect to some extent historical and cultural conditions and have an incarnate or historical quality about them. Not to recognize this is (I think) to be willingly blind to reality.1
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Submitted by Virgil on Wednesday, December 31 @ 20:15:00 PST (178 reads)
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News: Christ's Blessings in 2009!
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Year 2008 has been a kind of "weird" year for me personally for many reasons and in some ways I am looking forward to leaving it behind; even then it was given by God and I am very thankful for all the blessings and lessons learned. I also want to thank all of you readers who continue to make Planet Preterist a great site to come back again and again to visit and participate in conversations. Thanks, and may Christ's blessings be with you in 2009!
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Filed by Virgil Vaduva on Saturday, December 25 @ 18:51:20 PST (1367 reads)
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Exclusive: How Jesus Stole Christmas...from the Caesar
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by Virgil Vaduva
I wrote this short article a couple of years ago so I am reposting it here now to remind all of us what Christmas is all about as we celebrate with our families this holiday. Here in the West, Christmas is usually a time to exchange gifts, think about the birth of Jesus and the implications of what the birth of Christ had for mankind. I wish all Planet Preterist readers a Merry Christmas and a day of rejoicing in the presence of our Creator. May the true Star shine in your lives this Christmas!
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Submitted by Virgil on Wednesday, December 17 @ 20:06:32 PST (439 reads)
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News: Pro-Life Rick Warren to Give Invocation at Obama Inauguration
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Pro-life pastor Rick Warren will give the invocation at President-Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration. It makes a whole lot of sense. Even though Warren and Obama disagree on the life issue, they do see eye to eye on many social justice issues. This move is also classic Obama because it is a signal to religious conservatives that he’s willing to bring in both sides to the faith discussion in this country. Obama has never shied away from that.
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Filed by Parker on Thursday, December 11 @ 10:45:32 PST (1746 reads)
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Resurrection and the error of Hymenaeus and Philetus
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by Parker
To the average Christian, resurrection speaks of the reconstitution of individuals as both bodies and souls at the end of time. The writers of scripture, however, have a range of uses for the term "resurrection." The scriptures use the word to speak of Israel's national restorations (Isa 26:13-14,19-20; Ez 37), salvation, baptism, the transfer of departed souls from the Old Testament Hades (Heb. sheol) into God's heaven, and the final state at the end of time.
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Submitted by Virgil on Sunday, December 07 @ 12:45:01 PST (368 reads)
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Preterism: How should a Christian view environmentalism?
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The answer to the question above is given by the site gotquestions.org in no obscure terms: "At the same time, the earth we inhabit is not a permanent planet, nor was it ever intended to be. The environmental movement is consumed with trying to preserve the planet forever, and we know this is not God's plan. He tells us in 2 Peter 3:10 that at the end of the age, the earth and all He has created will be destroyed..."
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Filed by Timothy P. Martin on Tuesday, December 02 @ 11:58:34 PST (1851 reads)
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Exclusive: Response to Sam Frost’s Critique of Beyond Creation Science
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by Timothy P. Martin
and Jeff Vaughn
We would like to thank Sam Frost for his recent critique of Beyond Creation Science. Frost’s article, “A Brief Analysis of Beyond Creation Science: Some Preliminary Concerns,”[1] covers a lot of ground. We thank Frost for his generous spirit in (1) acknowledging that we have been true to Milton Terry’s approach, (2) agreeing that Genesis 2:4b-ff is covenantal, not global, (3) offering a new argument for a local flood that matches this covenant context in Genesis 2:4b-ff, and (4) illuminating key differences between the Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 creation accounts.
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Submitted by Mike Roe on Tuesday, December 02 @ 08:10:07 PST (234 reads)
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News: Charles Darwin and Asa Gray Discuss Teleology and Design
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by Sara Joan Miles, Eastern College
If Thomas Huxley earned the title of "Darwin's bulldog," then Asa Gray should be remembered as "Darwin's dove." Whereas Huxley enjoyed a good fight in his defense of Darwin's theory, Gray sought to mediate and bring sides together around a common understanding of "good science." As Darwin's strongest and most vocal scientific ally in the United States, Gray recognized the scientific importance of Darwin's efforts for the growing professionalism of biological researchers. But as an orthodox Christian, a Presbyterian firmly devoted to the faith expressed in the Nicene Creed, he saw in Darwin's theory both evidence for his philosophical commitment to natural theology and support for his opposition to the idealism advocated by Louis Agassiz and the naturphilosophers in both Europe and America. Indeed, Agassiz's advocacy of Platonic forms as a basis of biological understanding (e.g., "A species is a thought of the creator"1 would be a major source of American opposition to Darwin's theory.
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Submitted by Virgil on Tuesday, December 02 @ 08:00:05 PST (319 reads)
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Preterism: 1800s Preterism: Common Sense Interpretation
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In The Universalist and Ladies' Repository, a book published in the 1800s, presents an early opinion on Preterist eschatology: "We give one specimen, from a late publication, of the adoption of our method of interpreting several prophetical passages : — ' Christ's second coming was at, or about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D., 70. This we can easily prove, for Christ said positively, "verily I say unto you, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the son of man coming in his kingdom" (see Mat. xvi. 28,) the same declaration is recorded by Mark, ix. 1, and by Luke, ix. 27 ; thus there can be no mistake in this testimony, but we will proceed with more : — in Matthew, chap, xxiv, he describes the signs that were to precede his coming, and he told hem, taken they saw these things, that they might know that his coming was near — even at their doors."
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Filed by John Evans on Monday, November 24 @ 05:37:14 PST (572 reads)
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Exclusive: Some Thoughts on the Post-Bubble World
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by John Evans
Being well aware that I lack the divine inspiration of biblical prophets, I am fond of a quotation attributed to the late business economist Edgar R. Fiedler, namely “He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.” Nevertheless, because I have been blessed by having a stronger constitution than I deserve, because I have been a student of economic history and world politics for almost sixty years and a serious student of the Bible for about twenty, and because I have been allowed to post articles at planetpreterist.com, I herein offer an analysis of where America stands politically today and make some predictions about where it in particular and the world in general are headed during the coming decade. It promises to be a very memorable time.
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Submitted by Jared Coleman on Friday, November 14 @ 11:04:36 PST (532 reads)
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Preterism: Narrative-realism, Preterism, and the relevance of scripture
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by Andrew Perriman
I recently came across - I guess my ears were burning - a brief discussion initiated by Stephen Murray about the difference between a ’narrative-historical’ or ’narrative-realist’ approach to biblical interpretation and classic Preterism. The question is pertinent, so I will attempt here to outline what I understand by a narrative-realist hermeneutic and how it compares with Preterism, with some final thoughts on how a historical reading can still provide the basis for a dynamic and transformative dependence on the living Word of God.
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Submitted by Virgil on Thursday, November 13 @ 12:13:19 PST (447 reads)
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News: Israel Policy Forum: Hebron Horros
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A second [Israeli] soldier wrote: “The thing that…affected me emotional...was when we had just arrived in Hebron. I was on guard duty, when suddenly, from one of the small streets, a settler girl shows up and shouts at me very urgently: ‘Soldier, soldier, come quickly, there's an Arab here who's attacking a girl.’ I got very alarmed and advanced with my weapon cocked. The scene that unfolded was of an Arab with his two children. He’s trying to protect them from another settler girl who's throwing stones at them. I blow my fuse and start screaming at her...She’s screaming back that they are Arabs and should be killed…and the father, poor guy, says, with helpless eyes, ‘We're used to it, we've been here a long time now, it's alright.’ "
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Submitted by Virgil on Wednesday, November 12 @ 19:40:31 PST (415 reads)
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News: Project Liberty Tree is pleased to announce the 2008 Election Sermon!
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The 2008 Election Sermon will be delivered at the state capitol in Helena, Montana at 2 P.M. on Friday, November 21, 2008. The 2008 Election Sermon will be presented by Peter Marshall, author of The Light and the Glory and From Sea to Shining Sea. The title of the 2008 Election Sermon will be:
America: A Divine Experiment in Self-Government. This event is free and open to the public.
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Filed by Virgil Vaduva on Tuesday, November 11 @ 19:19:19 PST (794 reads)
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Exclusive: The Great Samaritan Story
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by Virgil Vaduva
Stop me if you heard this one: there is this Samaritan, and he walks into a bar and says, “Is anyone here indebted to the Temple in Jerusalem? If you are, I’ll write you a blank check, just come and see me...the next one is on me.”
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