Eschatology And The Faith
March 20th, 2011 | Eschatology | 2 Comments
What Is the Connection Between Eschatology And The Faith?
The subject of Christ's return in AD 70 continues to be a major hurdle for believers, especially as it concerns eschatology and the faith. Many are not aware that the faith as system of salvation is achieved only through the consummation of the end times. In other words, it cannot be separated from the coming of the Lord. (Visit the audio page to listen to an audio version of eschatology and the faith.)
To establish our premise that the faith is directly correlated with the parousia, we cite a familiar text from Old ...
Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline, Is Christianity ...
April 24th, 2009 | Amillennialism | No Comment
Karl Barth, theologian and scholar
fittingly wrote a latter chapter of
Dogmatics in Outline on the
“Coming of Jesus Christ the Judge.”
Karl Barth’s beliefs of Christ’s coming
as judge are futuristic. He however,
recognized the already but not yet
of eschatology.
Problems addressed in the book are the Christians view of time, which
he styles as “real time” versus God’s time.
Dogmatics in Outline Defined Pre-Parousia Time
In Karl Barth’s theology summary of present time, he saw Christ sitting at the right hand of God. This for him represented the present. As such, the event occurred in real time. From this he concluded and rightly so that eternity had broken into ...
Dispensationalism – Was The Church an Accide...
April 7th, 2009 | Dispensationalism | 29 Comments
Dispensationalism: Was the church an accident
for Christ’s failure to establish the kingdom?
The theology that teaches that Christ postponed
the kingdom and yet await its establishment at the
millennium is what’s known as Dispensationalism.
It is a rather recent teaching (past 200 years) in the
area of eschatology (study of last things) which
includes the second coming and its related events.
We believe that Dispensationalism errs by charging God with failure to keep his promise regarding the imminent (from a first century perspective)
establishment of the kingdom.
In that view, the church became a substitute, an interim entity to “pacify” the world until God fulfills his promises to “ethnic” ...
Armageddon: Are You Seeking an Escape Route?
January 29th, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment
Armageddon: Are You Seeking an Escape Route?
Much of what is taught regarding the end time is fear-based eschatology. Armageddon: Are You Seeking an Escape Route? pretty much says everything about the escapism predominant in churches today. Preoccupation with Armageddon characterizes those influenced by the escapist of Rapture theology. At the heart of the Rapture doctrine is fear, fear to face what is believed to be the great tribulation and a coming cataclysmic melt down of the planet. Christians are not spiritual Houdini’s seeking to escape from the world. Rather, they were assured they had overcome the world by their faith. ...
