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You think you just got a problem and you got a devil. You think you just got a headache and you got a devil. You think you just got a problem with your bank account and you got a devil. You think you've got a problem with your temper and you've got a devil. You think you've got a problem with depression and you've got a devil.
-- Rod Parsley, Praise The Lord, Dominion Camp Meeting; July 6, 1999
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God's Word and the Preterist View
Posted on Monday, January 21 @ 06:56:16 PST by dada21 |
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A search on Planet Preterist for "God's Word" brings up only 1 hit. A search for "Word of God" brings up none. A Google search on planetpreterist.com for "God's Word" brings up only 4 hits. It's odd that a phrase so readily used, especially in Dispensationalist congregations, is missing from the Preterist conversation.
I'm a "Full" Preterist, yet I serve literally hundreds of Futurist churches with my not-for-profit design and print ministry. I also attend, and serve, at a formerly Baptist congregation that still retains many of its Baptist roots, including a Futurist/Dispensationalist eschatological perspective. Anyone with other perspectives are kindly told not to bring them up.
One of the most commonly used phrases by the pastors of my congregation is "God's Word" or "Word of God." Every time they say it, they'll hold up the Book of Scriptures, a.k.a. the Bible. This past Sunday was no different, with the pastor speaking of how his daughter was "in the Word" when she was reading her Bible.
Many Preterists I know also use the term "the Word" when they speak of the Bible: "We should see what the Word says about (so and so)." A casual search online for investigating what most Preterists believe is the Word of God brings up mostly conversations referencing the Scriptures.
Yet my personal investigations into the Word of God, before I stumbled across the Preterist thought (I became a Preterist before ever hearing of it, and a Dispensationalist Pastor told me that I was likely a Preterist), led me to a different view of what, or actually Who, the Word is.
The purpose of this article was to actually drive people, Preterist or otherwise, to discuss what they believe the Word is.
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Re: God's Word and the Preterist View (Score: 1)
 by Ransom on Monday, January 21 @ 09:09:48 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I chafe at the use of "Word of God" in reference to the Bible. The presuppositions and ill-formed bibliology behind it really bugs me. |
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Re: God's Word and the Preterist View (Score: 1)
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(User Info | Send a Message) | Joh 1:1 In1722 the beginning746 was2258 the3588 Word,3056 and2532 the3588 Word3056 was2258 with4314 God,2316 and2532 the3588 Word3056 was2258 God.2316
The numbers beside the words are the Greek numbers.
WORD
G3056
λόγος
logos
Thayer Definition:
1) of speech
1a) a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea
1b) what someone has said
1b1) a word
1b2) the sayings of God
1b3) decree, mandate or order
1b4) of the moral precepts given by God
1b5) Old Testament prophecy given by the prophets
1b6) what is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim
1c) discourse
1c1) the act of speaking, speech
1c2) the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking
1c3) a kind or style of speaking
1c4) a continuous speaking discourse - instruction
1d) doctrine, teaching
1e) anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative
1f) matter under discussion, thing spoken of, affair, a matter in dispute, case, suit at law
1g) the thing spoken of or talked about; event, deed
2) its use as respect to the MIND alone
2a) reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating
2b) account, i.e. regard, consideration
2c) account, i.e. reckoning, score
2d) account, i.e. answer or explanation in reference to judgment
2e) relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation
2e1) reason would
2f) reason, cause, ground
3) In John, denotes the essential Word of God, Jesus Christ, the personal wisdom and power in union with God, his minister in creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the world’s life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement of man’s salvation put on human nature in the person of Jesus the Messiah, the second person in the Godhead, and shone forth conspicuously from His words and deeds.
Part of Speech: noun masculine
We not only misused this word, but we also misused the word "church". When we talk, we use it to refer to a building.
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Re: God's Word and the Preterist View (Score: 1)
by finn on Sunday, January 27 @ 13:16:35 PST
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Howdy Kent
John 1:1 In the beginning was the logos (concept),
and the logos (concept) was with God,
and the logos (concept) was God.
John 1:14 And the logos (concept) was personified and dwelt among us
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