Three Assumptions of Premillennialism
June 23rd, 2010 | Premillennialism | No Comment
Three Assumptions of Premillennialism
To accept the doctrine of Premillennialism involves the acceptance of certain views. We refer to these as the Three Assumptions of Premillenialism. That in no way means that these assumptions are limited to three for we believe many more can be cited. However, these are selected solely for the purpose of this brief writing.
Premillennialism Assumption No. 1: All Prophecy Must Be Literally Interpreted
This assumption, advanced with evangelistic fervor ignores the genre of literature of the Old Testament prophets. They often spoke in metaphor and hyperbole, using many different figures of speech to get their messages across. Such ...
Are These Practical Implications of Preterism Prac...
March 23rd, 2009 | Preterism | No Comment
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This is our last in the critique of Dr. Edward
Hinson’s article referred to in previous posts.
He lists several items as implications.
We ask, Are These Practical Implications of
Preterism Practical?
Most of these are commonly believed by all futurists as serious implications to the Preterism or fulfilled Bible prophecy.
Some of them are outright contradictions of texts which should be common knowledge for Bible students.
Destroys the Literal Meaning of the Bible
Dr. Hinson argues that a fulfilled coming of Christ at AD 70 destroys the literal meaning of the Bible. He claims that once one argues that language of prophecy cannot be taken ...
When Are Daniel’s 70 Weeks Fulfilled?
February 18th, 2009 | Book of Daniel | 5 Comments
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Much has been written on the prophetic
text of the Babylonian exile of Judah in
an attempt to answer the question,
When are Daniel’s 70 Weeks Fulfilled?
Perhaps no prophetic text suffers more
at the hands of exegetes than does that
of Daniel 9:24–27.
Dispensationalist Thomas Ice and others in that movement argue for
a literal interpretation of the 70 weeks.
However, their literalizing of the text results in both a logical contradiction and abandonment of their premise by inserting a 2000 plus year gap.
They insert thousands of “weeks” into the final week resulting in non-fulfillment of the prophecy. However, the prophecy contains a very simple guide-post ...
