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But isn't wasteful, smelly sometimes, car a better spiritual reality than this modern computerized, warrantied for value-nuetral fixing?
Similarly, often a delusion that the clean urban world of routinized buying and selling property with conscience of misunderstood virtues of impersonally known people exists to the better improved market?
My own experience is that since I came to Preterism, it gives me a freedom to live my life fully and not be concerned with speculation about events that will never happen. That allows me to live as if there is a tomorrow that will endure forever, and it also gets "the devil" out of my thinking, because I am not forever blaming bad things on a being that no longer has influence in anything I do or think. This also makes ME responsible for my own sins, but it also frees me to let righteousness reign, rather than getting bogged down in mythical explanations for evil. I just wanted to share that with all of you.
Blessings.
I'm sure many can empathize with you sciota. There are many Mormons and other sects who believe they now have freedoms they didn't have before due to their new found belief structures.
I have to admit it. I did not know what the word preterist meant. After reading through the thread once, I realized none of it made sense. So I looked the word up. Preterist is defined as someone who believes most of the prophesies have already been fulfilled. Well that's me alright. We are in end times. Christ is reigning. We are in the thousand year reign. Satan has been bound. That is not to say he has no power. He just doesn't have the power he had during the time of Jesus and the early church. All we have to do now is wait for Jesus to come again and take His church back with Him to heaven. Then those who belong to Christ will be judged by their good deeds. Their bad deeds will have been erased from the record. Those who are not in Christ's body will be thrown into the lake of fire. As long as we live a good christian life we have no need to worry and every reason to rejoice! Praise God!
I have to admit it. I did not know what the word preterist meant. After reading through the thread once, I realized none of it made sense. So I looked the word up. Preterist is defined as someone who believes most of the prophesies have already been fulfilled. Well that's me alright. We are in end times. Christ is reigning. We are in the thousand year reign. Satan has been bound. That is not to say he has no power. He just doesn't have the power he had during the time of Jesus and the early church. All we have to do now is wait for Jesus to come again and take His church back with Him to heaven. Then those who belong to Christ will be judged by their good deeds. Their bad deeds will have been erased from the record. Those who are not in Christ's body will be thrown into the lake of fire. As long as we live a good christian life we have no need to worry and every reason to rejoice! Praise God!
I have to admit it. I did not know what the word preterist meant. After reading through the thread once, I realized none of it made sense. So I looked the word up. Preterist is defined as someone who believes most of the prophesies have already been fulfilled. Well that's me alright. We are in end times. Christ is reigning. We are in the thousand year reign. Satan has been bound. That is not to say he has no power. He just doesn't have the power he had during the time of Jesus and the early church. All we have to do now is wait for Jesus to come again and take His church back with Him to heaven. Then those who belong to Christ will be judged by their good deeds. Their bad deeds will have been erased from the record. Those who are not in Christ's body will be thrown into the lake of fire. As long as we live a good christian life we have no need to worry and every reason to rejoice! Praise God!
We are NOT in the thousand year Millennial reign of Christ and Satan has NOT been bound. Jesus won the strategic victory over Satan at the cross but the entire church-age is the intensified stage of the angelic conflict. The rapture of the church is the next prophetic event for the church at which time the church in heaven will be evaluated at the bema seat - the judgment seat of Christ for the purpose of reward. During that time the seven year tribulation will be occurring on the earth. At the end of that time Christ will return and set up His Millennial kingdom. And the church will return with Christ and winner believers will rule with Christ. Again, we are not now in the Millennium.
Last edited by Michael Way; 03-07-2011 at 09:15 PM..
I am a full preterist. There are others like partials, or otherwise know as Orthodox preterists, who view everything to be fulfilled, except for the GWTJ and second, literal physical coming of Christ to judge the world. You seem to fall into Amillenialism.
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