Preterism?
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longdistancerunner
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Preterism?
Preterism is the belief that many of the prophecies of the NT have already happened, like Revelation has already happened. I have heard that some CoC's are leaning in this direction. Does anyone else here have knowledge of this, it is quite interesting.
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It certainly stops people from going nuts over signs of the end times and making theories about Armageddon out of Revelation.
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Yes, I believe the cofcs of my early life did lean that way. All of the scary things had already happened, except Jesus returning, raising all the dead, taking up all the cofc people into the clouds, final judgment, and the earth burning up.longdistancerunner wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2024 9:01 am Preterism is the belief that many of the prophecies of the NT have already happened, like Revelation has already happened. I have heard that some CoC's are leaning in this direction. Does anyone else here have knowledge of this, it is quite interesting.
Wait...come to think of it...the earth burning.
~Stone Cold Ivyrose Austin~
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Right. They didn't believe in a "rapture" as it's being taught today by a lot of churches.
~Stone Cold Ivyrose Austin~
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I have a relative who got deeply into Preterism, but later he changed his mind. He wrote a lengthly series of Facebook posts about why it was/was not true. So I don’t know if I really understand the doctrine. But it was clear to me that quite a few COC people came to believe this.
Moogy
NI COC for over 30 years, but out for over 40 years now
Mostly Methodist for about 30 years.
Left the UMC in 2019 based on their decision to condemn LGBT+ persons and to discipline Pastors who perform same-sex marriages
NI COC for over 30 years, but out for over 40 years now
Mostly Methodist for about 30 years.
Left the UMC in 2019 based on their decision to condemn LGBT+ persons and to discipline Pastors who perform same-sex marriages
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The full preterists want to say the second coming of Christ happened in a spiritual sense in AD 70 when the temple was destroyed.
i technically have no dog in the fight but dont think that is right. other verses seem to imply a literall return .
but my religion teaches the Bible has been corrupted so what do i know for sure.
i technically have no dog in the fight but dont think that is right. other verses seem to imply a literall return .
but my religion teaches the Bible has been corrupted so what do i know for sure.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.----Karl Marx
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Preterism is another example of the CoC coming up with their own vocabulary. In CoC parlance, it's the AD 70 doctrine. It was usually railed against but no one seemed to have an understanding of what it really was. There are relatively few full preterists in the theological world but a permutation of the idea called Partial Preterism is more popular.