“No, that was invented by JN Darby via the visions of Margaret MacDonald.”
Do you remember your response to Uncle Chip on the MacArthur thread?
“You really don’t want to start engaging in guilt by association, now do you?”
When he posted this:
“without ever seeming to recognise that preterism is a Jesuit-Romanist invention, not a Protestant Reformed teaching.
ORIGINS Preterism was first advanced in 1604 by Jesuit Luis de Alcasar to destroy the Reformed Protestant teaching that the papacy was Mystery Babylon, the Great Whore and the historical Antichrist.”
715 posted on 05/08/2007 10:34:06 AM EDT by topcat54
You clearly do not understand the difference between guilt by association and historical relevance.
Darby is by all accounts the father of the modern system known as dispensationalism. One of the hallmarks of dispensationalism is the pre-tribulation rapture. Darby claims to have invented that doctrine after realizing the radial distinction between Israel and the Church. The pre-trib doctrine was absolutely unknown with the Church prior to 1830. (Tommy Ice has been desperately seeking a Christian pre-tribber prior to Darby for years.) Further, the historical relationship between Darby and the group which included Margaret MacDonald is well known.
There has never been any relationship established between the so-called “Jesuit-Romanist” theory of one person and preterism. That is pure guilt by associaiton.