Amillennialism
kind regards
Nibbler: Garble garble garble, garble garble garble!
Leela: So every major religion is wrong!
Personally I like to think those who have earned it will spend eternity in Aslan's Country. : )
Put me down for A-Mil.
Dispensational
Pre-trib rapture
literal 7 year reign of the anti-Christ
literal 1000 year reign of Christ in the Millenium
Preterism for me, Revelations is history not prophecy.
I think my head would explode if I tried to wrap myself around this stuff.
I will exceed my authority and take 3 choices.
#1 (with a bullet) - Dispy Pre-Mil, Pre-Trib.
#2 Amil
#3 Post Mil
Postmillennialism:
(Also known as "Christian Reconstruction", "Kingdom Now Theology" and "Dominion Theology.") These believe “that the kingdom of God is now being extended in the world through the preaching of the gospel and the saving work of the Holy Spirit, that the world eventually is to be Christianized, and that the return of Christ will occur at the close of a long period of righteousness and peace, commonly called the millennium.”
Preterism:
Belief that the events prophesized in the New Testament have already happened. The great war of Armageddon in the book of Revelation occurred in the late 60's and early 70's CE when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, many Jews were killed and the rest were driven from Palestine.
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These summaries are inadequate. There are degrees of Preterism, arguing that most (but not all) of Revelation (which was definitly mostly future when it was written) is now history rather than future events, and though the most vocal modern advocates of the Postmillenial view have indeed been the "reconstruction/dominionists", it has a long and prominent representation in earlier generations (e.g., William Carey), and other non-reconstructionist reformed representatives in the present.
One can find lots of pious billingsgate about these positions on pre-millenialist websites especially the pre-trib rapturists, but since their postion has NO history before about 1830, they are in a poor position to argue, especially since all the seminaries they founded in the past century to propagate their position have (sometimes quietly, sometimes more publicly) abandoned it.
For better summaries, see
http://www.biblelighthouse.com/eschatology/esc-postmillenial.htm
http://www.biblelighthouse.com/eschatology/esc-preterist.htm
and for some further information on the influence of the position, see
http://www.contra-mundum.org/schirrmacher/careypostmil.html
What do I think? Obviously, I'm sympathetic to the post-mil/partial preterist view, but still have a lot of unanswered questions. Details about "The End" are not the most important issue, though admittedly important. Serving in the areas that are more clearly lighted is pre-requisite for making further progress in these murkier matters, so that's where to devote limited resources.
hello, refugee from crosswalk!
Count me as post-mil, with orthodox Christian preterism -- the resurrection of the body is still part of the creed, the faith which we must keep "wholly and entire."
Pre-trib rapture.
Good morning.
Pre Trib for me.
Pre
I haven't come to a conclusion about this subject, but I probably lean toward Dispensationalism....
I do believe that most people will not realize what is taking place, that the world is in it's death throes. Just like when Christ came, few realized the promised Messiah had arrived.
"Amillennialism: (Also known as Nonmillennialism). The Kingdom of God is present in the world today through the presence of the heavenly reign of Christ, the Bible, the Holy Spirit and Christianity."---This acurately reflects my beliefs and---"Both good and evil will continue in the world until the current Church Age ends suddenly as Christ returns to the sky above the earth. The Rapture follows. The Redeemed are transported to heaven where they will adopt spiritual bodies. The majority of humanity will be sent to Hell at this time for eternal punishment. The world will be abandoned. History is no more."---comes close enough. I don't feel the need to point out any of my differences with this, except with the word 'majority'. I don't know how many people will be saved and how many will be lost. I guess some biblical passages do point to "few" being saved. And certainly my experience on this earth leads me to be more and more pessimistic about it year by year. It often looks like there is more evil on this earth than I can comprehend.
I think when the bill comes due there will be heavy retribution all around. But for God's mercy not one would survive.
I think our understanding of history will be wiped clean and a new age, in the beginning a Golden Age will follow. And then entropy again sets in.
BTW, thanks for asking.
The party is over when we run out of beer.
/telliollji, teel-/ • noun (pl. teleologies) — DERIVATIVES teleologic adjective teleological adjective. — ORIGIN from Greek telos ‘end’ + logos ‘account, reason’.
I like the definition in the OED:
b'shem Y'shua teleology
1 Philosophy the doctrine that the existence of phenomena may be explained with reference to the purpose they serve.
2 Theology the doctrine that there is evidence of design and purpose in the natural world.
I am Catholic, so mark me down for that brand of amillennialism. (Though that be a misnomer. There is a Millennium and we are in it now.)
Now, an interesting quote from one of my daughter's favorite movies, "The Last Unicorn." Take it away, Schmendrick, the magician:
There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
SD
bookmark for later reading.
Log me in for Pre-Wrath Rapture. I figure we are in the last stages of the second seal and are about to pop on the third. (Rev 6)