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To: grumpa
"While it is a minority view today, many Christians down through the ages have not understood passages about Jesus’ Parousia be a future literal physical-bodily appearance. Rather, they have understood it as a “coming in judgment” in AD 70."

The majority of Christians in the world today would take a partial-preterist view: that Jesus came in judgment on Jerusalem in AD 70, but this was also a foreshadowing of his Second Coming at the end of time. Catholics and Orthodox make up the majority of Christians in the world, and (if they are educated in the teachings of their own Church) they would by-and-large, hold this partial-preterist view. However, most of the pew-sitting members of those churches are not interested enough in eschatology to even know what their own Church teaches.

The pre-millennial/dispensationalist view of the End Times is, in fact, a minority position among Christians-- historically and even today. It is very popular among American based evangelical/fundamentalist/non-denominational Christians and those who they have influenced and it is the most well know on a popular level because they have more enthusiastically promoted it in books, sermons, and movies.

6 posted on 02/14/2021 2:05:41 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: fidelis
The pre-millennial/dispensationalist view of the End Times is, in fact, a minority position among Christians-- historically and even today.

I was completely unaware that Truth is decided by majority Vote!

"And what was the divine reply to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." (Romans 11:4)

10 posted on 02/14/2021 4:30:03 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead... )
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