Posted on 01/14/2014 7:48:53 PM PST by Gamecock
However, this author is even more in the dark,
Which author? I've lost the back trail. Rev. Riddelbarger?
I believe it’s Talmudic that if you’re pruning a tree and hear that the moshiach is come, first finish the pruning, then go to greet him.
"Everybody, look busy!"
Either you or Riddlebarger or both need to aprise yourselves of some scientific facts that do comport very well with the Bible. The powers that be don’t like to discuss these facts much though.
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
Center for Scientific Creation - In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html
Are you equating post-tribber with ammillennialism?
So, are you saying it is important that we speak truth when it comes to the first coming, such things as the incarnation, deity of Christ, his resurrection, but on the second coming, different case there. Truth has no place there, we can believe just any old way our fancy takes us, it’s just fine.
Some claim Christ’s second coming, the resurrection, and the end of the world took place in 70 AD (preterism), others claim things the world is getting more Christian by the day, things will improve until we bring in a wonderful Christian golden age for a thousand years, after which the second coming takes place (postmillennialism). All same-o to you, right?
By the way, I subscribe to neither of the aforementioned eschatologies above.
There is no case for Amillennialism...period. It is nothing but a theory of man read into the word of God. Origen and Augustine's theory read into the 19th and 20th chapters of Revelation. The official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. Another Romanist lie, which should have no place in Protestantism.
Tsk. The PROTESTANT REFORMATION was about REFORMING the ROMAN CATHOLIC Church. The REFORMED are not ROMAN Catholic.. (but we ARE small “c” catholic in the sense that the word “catholic” means universal.)
Just because the Roman Catholic Church embraces Amillenialism, does not mean that Amillenialism is unbiblical.
The Roman Catholics also embrace the doctrine of the Trinity..does that mean that the doctrine of the Trinity is unbiblical? I would not think so.
The Roman Catholic Church embraces MANY doctrines that the Protestant Church has historically also embraced.
Just because ONE denomination may advocate a certain doctrine, does NOT mean that that specific teaching MUST be unbiblical.
This is true of Amillenialism, as well as many other viewpoints that the Church Universal has ALWAYS embraced.
We who are Reformed may NOT always agree with the Roman Catholic Church, and we most certainly do NOT agree in the area of Soteriology, or Sola Scriptura or, well.. many other things..but we do agree with them when any doctrine (IE. The Trinity) can be shown to be Biblical.
Amillenialism can be shown to be grounded in the Bible. You don’t believe this to be true? Fine. Listen to Dr. Riddlebargers series (referenced above), or read his book on Amillenialism. He gives good and sufficient reasons, demonstrating that Amillenialism IS Scripturally based, and BIBLICAL through and through. If you do listen to the series, or read the book, you may even be led to change your mind regarding Amillenialism.
I don’t need to listen to Riddlebarger, I’ve heard it from many others just as adamant about it as he is. Luther, Zwingli, and the Reformed did not “come out of Babylon” far enough. In my opinion and in the opinion of many evangelicals; you folks came out dragging Romanist things with you...such as their Amillennialism.
no.
Thank you.
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