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.
Well the Jesuit Alcasar was the founder of the school of preterism. That is a well known fact of history. And if you're going to hang around the school of preterism, you will be associating with its founder and his followers.
Rather than feeling guilty about it, maybe you should just proudly embrace your heritage and acknowledge the debt you owe to your founding father.
Darby is by all accounts the father of the modern system known as dispensationalism.
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“by all accounts”
Goodness. What an untrue statement!
No wonder Scripture gets mangled so much.
And you don't understand the scriptures.
Darby didn't 'invent' anything.
What he, and the Scofield reference Bible did, was make the pre-trib view well known.
Stop throwing around red herrings.
If the scriptures teach the pre-trib view, using the correct hermentucial approach,(literal/figurative) than that is all that matters and that is what has to be refuted.
And the same is true of the preterist view.
It stands or falls on how well it explains the scriptures, not 'wresting them'.