tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172789211880677949.post5640335331573477055..comments2023-09-27T00:34:32.253-04:00Comments on The UnPreterist: A Very Sincere Message to All Preterists (SHARE FREELY)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172789211880677949.post-25016167376829627562015-12-30T01:29:19.208-05:002015-12-30T01:29:19.208-05:00To Jody, I'm sorry to hear about your husband ...To Jody, I'm sorry to hear about your husband getting involved with preterism. Please keep praying for him and asking him how God can be in control yet allow for supposed 2000 years of incorrect Christianity. I realized at some point I could not claim to be a Christian and a preterist, anymore than a Mormon can claim to be a Christian no matter how much they may quote the Bible.Roderick_Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169535715630771551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172789211880677949.post-76321250397785268822015-12-30T01:26:06.995-05:002015-12-30T01:26:06.995-05:00To JBsptfn on Acts 1:11, John Gill's commentar...To JBsptfn on Acts 1:11, John Gill's commentary on it includes:<br /><i>"why stand ye gazing up into heaven? reproving them for their curiosity in looking after Christ with their bodily eyes, who was no more in common to be seen this way, but with an eye of faith; and for their desire after his corporeal presence, which they were not to look for; and as if they expected he would return again immediately, whereas his return will not be till the end of the world:"</i><br /><br />This implies the apostles didn't see Christ physically. Further the quote goes on... <i>"shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven; he shall come in the same flesh, in the same human nature;"</i><br /><br />The contrast I am making here is that we have a commentary that admits that the apostles more than likely did NOT see a physical Jesus floating in the sky, yet then interprets a physical Jesus coming back??? -- <a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/" rel="nofollow">source</a><br /><br />Even Calvin says: <i>" But, they think they escape safe with that crafty answer, when as they say that then he shall come visibly; but he cometh now invisibly daily. But we are not here to dispute of his form; only the apostles are taught that Christ must abide in heaven until such time as he appear at the latter day."</i><br /><br />Then about in what manner Christ will return, Calvin says: <i>" Furthermore, it were but frivolous to move any question about his apparel wherewith he was then clothed, whether he shall come again being clothed with the same or no. Neither am I now determined to refute that which Augustine, in his Epistle unto Consentius, doth touch, (August. ad Con. Epist. 146;) notwithstanding, it is better for me to omit that thing which I cannot unfold."</i> -- <a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom36.viii.iv.html" rel="nofollow">source</a><br /><br />So if these theologians can be vague about the manner of His coming, I think I should be forgiven that I am of the mind His coming is sure, the manner is debatable.<br /><br />Roderick_Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169535715630771551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172789211880677949.post-46547851496780511572015-06-05T14:40:48.119-04:002015-06-05T14:40:48.119-04:00Thank you for this post. I am a wife whose husband...Thank you for this post. I am a wife whose husband has turned from futurist to preterist last summer and he is deep in the teachings of Don Preston. I do not follow his new found belief and as a result our marriage is troubled and we stopped going to church because none of the churches around here "tell the truth". Even though it is pointless to forward this article to him (he will not read or believe otherwise) I find that alot of your testimony fits exactly in the same pattern as his. "It just made sense" is what I heard from him too. It took you years to realize it's flaws as I dread how long it will be until he realizes his mistake. Thank you anyways for posting this article. It takes alot of courage to admit you were blinded after so many years of what you considered was the truth.Mrs. Roseycheekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05418620783068954753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172789211880677949.post-12425008153807857732015-05-22T07:58:59.318-04:002015-05-22T07:58:59.318-04:00Enjoyed your post. Very informative.
What is your...Enjoyed your post. Very informative.<br /><br />What is your take on Acts chapter 1, though, when the angels tell the disciples that he will return the same way they saw him go up to heaven (which was physically)? Doesn't that suggest a future physical return? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com