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To: xzins; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan; Alex Murphy; Dr. Eckleburg; Tax-chick

Have you ever heard of the term “guilt by association”? That was the author’s tactic in this hit piece.


23 posted on 04/10/2007 10:57:41 AM PDT by topcat54
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To: xzins; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan; Alex Murphy; Dr. Eckleburg; Tax-chick
BTW, Engelsma is the only one to attempt to discredit orthodox preterism with faulty logic. John MacArthur tried the slippery-slope tactic against his friend, RC Sproul.
Using a debater's trick, MacArthur begins his analysis of nondispensational eschatology by assessing full-preterism. Full-preterists believe that all the New Testament prophetic passages were fulfilled in A.D. 70. Thus, there is no future bodily return of Christ. The resurrection is also given a non-traditional interpretation. Of course, I have no problem with someone debating the merits of full-preterism or partial preterism. R.C. Sproul engages in a debate with full preterism in his The Last Days According to Jesus, and Ken Gentry has written extensively on the subject. I've had numerous discussion with full-preterist writers and have voiced my dissatisfaction with a number of their interpretations. While MacArthur admits that partial preterism is not heresy, he goes on to write that "it is clear that the hermeneutical approach taken by [partial] preterists is what laid the foundation for the hyper-preterist error." The old slippery-slope argument.

Gary DeMar in Defending the Indefensible


26 posted on 04/10/2007 11:08:41 AM PDT by topcat54
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