“Ah, so everything has already happened? Christ is reigning physically on earth from his throne in New Jerusalem, death and hell have been thrown into the lake of fire along with Satan and all his followers, and the lions are playing pattycake with the lambs and little children out in the fields? Or maybe not “quite” everything has already happened?”
Eschatological literalism is killing the Christian church by making it a laughingstock. Your post is a perfect example of such misinformed literalism.
“Eschatological literalism is killing the Christian church by making it a laughingstock. Your post is a perfect example of such misinformed literalism.”
Your post is a perfect example of the fundamental flaw of preterism. You claim every prophecy of the end times is fulfilled, but then if you scratch the surface of that statement, it turns out that it is only fulfilled if the terms of that fulfillment are already defined according to the preterist perspective. It’s easy to declare yourself the winner if you have rewritten the rules of the game.
Preterism is not an eschatology, but a tautology. There is no set of rules that, when consistently applied to prophecy, would reliably yield a preterist interpretation. Instead, the preterists start with a defined interpretation of scripture, and then apply whatever rules they feel like in order to make scripture fit their goal.
Now, if what I say isn’t the case, then you should be able to provide me with the preterist standard for determining which parts of prophecy are to be taken literally, versus which parts we shall take as symbolic, figurative, etc.
In whose eyes?