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I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is…The biggest one in the whole Bible is God…I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least - that's a big loss, man….
-- Kenneth Copeland, Praise-a-thon on Praise The Lord, April 1988
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Re: A Revival in Eschatology? (Score: 1)
 by Virgil on Sunday, September 07 @ 05:26:30 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Encouraging post but a troubling conclusion that I wanted to share with everyone:
Most Apostolics, however, lost interest in eschatology all together. Neither Futurism nor Preterism garner much interest upon most Apostolic forums. The small troupe of Preterists that frequent those forums usually spends their time touting their doctrine, their scriptural prowess, or each other.
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Re: A Revival in Eschatology? (Score: 1)
 by Islamaphobe on Sunday, September 07 @ 09:57:20 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Virgil,
Although Parsons laments the rise of preterism and its influence as indicted in the selection quoted above, he proceeds to assure the reader that "Most Apostolics . . . have lost interest in eschatology altogether" and that "prophecy teaching"--meaning sound futurism--"will become important to our movement once more" when people return to examining Scripture. I suspect that he will be disappointed in the results when they do so. Like many observers, he tends, I think, to overlook that when you project a small but steady growth rate into the future for a sustained period of time, increments that are initially small in an absolute sense eventually become quite large. Thus, if the number of people with preterist leanings grows, for example, at 10 percent for annum for a decade, the result is to double the total preterist population in seven years and quadruple it in fourteen.
Toward the end of his article, Parsons writes: "As international threats and domestic challenges place more and more stress upon our lives, a renewed interest in our future is inevitable. This time, perhaps, we will remember the mistakes of sensationalist (sic) and stick to the scriptures when describing the soon coming of Christ, the literal resurrection and rapture of the saints." Well, I am certainly of the opinion that we have entered into one of the great crisis periods of human history, and I agree that a renewed interest in the future is developing. I am also of the opinion that when people take the closer look at Scripture that Parsons calls for, many of them will realize that He came in AD 70.
John S. Evans
John S. Evans
What he misses is that when people DO examine Scripture carefully, the "sound doctrine" of which he writes |
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Re: A Revival in Eschatology? (Score: 1)
by rfwitt (hifive@att.net) on Monday, September 08 @ 16:45:12 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | "We don’t need the hype. We need sound doctrine" so says the author Parsons. I couldn't agree with him more. Dispensationalism is nothing but hype.
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