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To: Dr. Thorne

My understanding is that partial preterism is the belief that certain portions of the Book of Revelations happened already, and certain ones will happen in the future. If I understand you correctly, the Catholic Church would hold *YOUR* definition of partial preterism, that the same event happens in the past and will happen in the future.

An example of Catholic teaching (NOT dogmatic, NOT official, but commonly held) that fits your definition of partial preterism is that the Beast referred to Emperor Nero (Qsr Nrn = 666), but also a global oppression of Christianity in the end times.

Again, this is NOT official Catholic dogma; in fact there have been Catholics who believe we are living before the millennium, during the millennium, and even after the millennium; since the issue of the millennium is not one of morality (even the authority to require obedience is an issue of morality), the Church has not seen it necessary to dogmatically define.


35 posted on 04/24/2014 12:17:17 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
Revelation contains Christ's appearing to John, His Letters to the seven churches and John's vision of Heaven. These things happened while John lived. The prophetic occurances that John saw (The Beast, the trumpets, the bowls, etc.) are in the future, not in 70 A.D.

I have no regard for Catholic teaching as IMO Catholicism is heretical and denies Christ as the only source of salvation, deifying humans and teaching us to pray to them. But, trusting your salvation to a priest instead of accepting your responsibility to work out your salvation with fear and trembling sure is easy.

39 posted on 04/24/2014 1:51:35 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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