Preterism is False, Is it True or False?
March 23rd, 2009 | Preterism | 4 Comments
A few professors associated with Liberty
University are beginning to panic over
Preterism.
Preterism is False, Is it True or False?, is a
reply to objections raised by panicking
Dispensationalists. Preterism is a Latin
term which means past.
From the perspective of Bible prophecy,
it refers to all end times events as having
been fulfilled in the past. It is the opposite
of futurism, which holds those events to be yet to come in the future.
Dr. Edward Hinson, Assistant to the Chancellor at Liberty University
wrote an article entitled, The New Last Days Scoffers, as an attempted refutation of Preterism. The article appeared in the May 2005 issue of Jerry Falwell’s ...
Are We Eliminating the Real Need for Eschatology?
March 23rd, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment
In a list of objections raised by Dr. Edward
Hinsons The New Last Days’ Scoffers Articles,
he charges that Preteriism Is False, and asks
“Are We Eliminating the Real Need for Eschatology?
This is a vaild question. It causes us to focus
on what eschatology is and where to place it?
Dispensationalists and all futurists place eschatology
at the end of the Christian age. Preterism vigorously
challenges that assumption. Preterism view the Christian age as an age without end, therefore, it can have no eschatology. This, futurists believe is the great heresy of Preterism.
Eschatology
Eschatology is the study of last or final things, from “echatos” meaning last, and logos, ...
Is the Millennium Past, Present or Future?
March 23rd, 2009 | Millennium | 1 Comment
In continuing our reply to Preterism Is False,
and Dr. Edward Hinson of Liberty University’s
The New Last Day's Scoffers, we address
the millennium.
Is the Millennium Past, Present or Future?
This means we are responding to both
Amillennialism and Dispensationalism as
tenants of futurism.
Dr. Hinson, erroneously assumed that Preterism holds to a present millennium. We deny that assertion.
Rather, it is the Amillennial view which holds that the millennium is currently present, is figurative in that it includes the entire period beginning with Christ’s enthronement at the right hand of the Father already now exceeding a literal 1,000 years (Acts 2:29–33) and continues until his alleged future ...
Romans 11 and Israel, Has God Cast Away His People...
March 23rd, 2009 | Eschatology | 4 Comments
We are responding to Dr. Edward Hinson’s
attack on Preterism. Among questions
entertained already, he submits yet another
one which he believes refutes Preterism.
Paul asks in “Romans 11, Has God Cast Away His People, Israel?” Dr. Hinson teaches Preterism implies such. We deny the charge.
He asks, “If God is finished with ethnic Israel, why did Paul ask: “Has God cast away his people?” “And why did he respond so emphatically, “ God forbid!” (Rom. 11:1)
First we must note that this text is written prior to A.D. 70. At that time God had not cast off the Old Covenant nation. However, today, since that ...
When Would God Restore the Kingdom to Israel?
March 23rd, 2009 | Kingdom | No Comment
We continue our response to the arguments
raised by Dr. Hinson’s article, the New Last
Days Scoffers, published in the May 2005
issue of The National Liberty Journal.
This writing answers the question of When
Would God Restore the Kingdom to Israel?
The question assumes that God is finished
with Israel. We discussed that particular
issue in the previous post, regarding
Romans 11.
These are merely straw man arguments which are assumed to be implications for Christ’s first century return.
If the church replaces Israel and becomes the kingdom of God on earth, why did the disciples ask Jesus at the ascension; “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom ...
