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To: taxesareforever
I am one who does not believe in a 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth.

I don't believe this is a majority opinion in the religious world.

The Jews of Jesus time had a real hard time grasping the notion that the kingdom of God was not an earthly kingdom. I don't think that will change at the second coming, thus creating this 1000 year reign.

8 posted on 12/22/2004 12:05:29 AM PST by PFKEY
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To: PFKEY

actually "chiliasm" or belief in a 1000 year reign of Christ on earth, is a very MINORITY opinion of Christians.

You should read "The Millenium, Four Views" by Clouse, (Inter Varsity Press), if it is still in print.

It proposes a set of questions to four solid, believing, scholars, all of whom attest to the integrity, accuraccy, and inerrancy of the Bible. They represent the "historical" pre-millenial position (a millenium, but none of the stuff about the "rapture" or re-instituting OT worship in Israel), post millenial (the belief that Christ will triumph in this world thru revival and issue in his "reign"-- this was the common view of those who founded the country...., we were in the midst of a revival that caused even heathen like Ben Franklin to posit that "the whole world was becoming religious"), a-millenial (a belief that the "1000 years" is figurative...., the predominant view among bible believing Christians thru history and today), and dispensational pre-millenial, a relatively late belief, spawned by James Darby and CI Scofield, with a little help from a charismatic woman in the congregation of Edward Irving (first "prophecy" of the "secret rapture" recorded in the history of the church) in 1860. This last view is very popular among fundamentalists in America, but not well known outside.


49 posted on 12/22/2004 3:43:15 AM PST by chronic_loser (Go to my blog: http://snarktown.blogspot.com)
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To: PFKEY

I think your stats about the majority in Christendom are likely behind the times.

The vast majority of Believers now in South America, Africa and Asia are PENTECOSTAL/CHARISMATIC in beliefs, practices and theology.

By a wide margin.

And growing virtually geometrically daily.

Evidently, Holy Spirit also disagrees with you as HE IS THE ONE ADDING TO SUCH CHURCHES DAILY SUCH AS WOULD BE SAVED.


433 posted on 01/17/2005 6:06:22 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. 2 TIM 3:5)
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