Listen pal, if you believe that Jesus is coming again, then you are numbered among those people.
Maybe you don't believe in a future literal coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ, huh? Maybe we should number you among the "wise unbelievers"?
....Wise unbeliever....
Hah!
LOL. Well put.
Actually, imho . . . and experience . . .
folks with a realistic and proper Biblical perspective about THESE BIBLICALLY PREDICTED END TIMES IN OUR ERA are a LOT healthier
than the tidy little boxed anal retentive types who obsess over narrow rigid 'traditionalist tinged' private interpretation constructions on Scriptural themes.
But, we are all human; sinners saved by Grace; flawed; in need of daily confession and repentance.
. . . perhaps except for the purely truly truest true truth believers in HOLLAND. LOL. /sar
I can't imagine the benefit of appealing to "wise unbelievers" for one's position on biblical eschatology.
I can imagine the basis of it, though. It indicates to me that those who despise the futurist position are more concerned with how they are viewed by the world than by Christ. If some "psychologist" sees eschatological yearnings based in some so-called psychological deficiency, then some would do anything rather than be poorly viewed by "this world." They'd even overthrow sound biblical teaching and "heap to themselves teachers having itching ears."
There is no doubt that Jesus was speaking to the future in Mt 24, Mk 13, Lu 21, (and Revelation, written by John in circa 90's AD.)
Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.
Maybe you don't believe in a future literal coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ, huh? Maybe we should number you among the "wise unbelievers"?
You may wish to take another look at my tagline. Calvinists are standard, creedal, orthodox Christians before anything else, who anticipate the resurrection of the dead, and the life everlasting, Amen, when Jesus returns, physically.
You have no business questioning my standing with God, just because I question the sanity of your eschatological position. Indeed, I have good grounds for questioning the validity of any eschatological position that makes its adherents de facto cheerleaders for the other team. It is sad, but dispensationalism corrupts something good, a love for Jesus, a desire to see Him, into something hideous -- a drooling lust to see bad things happen to our neighbors.
I would think that a Biblical, Christ-honoring perspective would look for ways to serve as salt and light, to redeem the culture God has embedded us in.
***As a wise unbeliever who researched apocalyptic psychology discovered, those folks who obsess on fortune-telling do so to compensate for deep emotional pain. By projecting their paralyzing internal turmoil against an imaginary global canvas, they justify their own sorry condition. No need to embrace God's present mercies, His available, humbling grace. Just fantasize about a sudden, painless, reversal of the status quo "any day now!"***
I had a dear friend who suddenly broke fellowship with us about ten years ago. She said she thought "they" were after her to force her to take the "mark of the beast" and she feared she might "out" other Christians she knew.
Twenty five years ago another friend knew we were in the "Last days". I showed him his error in the "fig tree parable and he refused to believe it.
Today he has put all his children through school and is building himself a monstrosity of a house on a lot of earth near here. The end times didn't end.
I collect lots of "end times" books going way back. All have been in error.