New Perspective

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get into a topic I’ve been reading into for quite a while now, but it’s so deep and I’m so shallow. The issue is the so-called New Perspective on Paul. The Paul Page has some extraordinary articles describing it (start with Mattison’s summary), and so what [...]

Does majority rule in theology?

In this week’s installment of Theology Unplugged, a podcast I highly recommend, Reclaiming the Mind Ministries president Michael Patton made the following comments about full preterists (like myself):

Now I would say, you can believe that, and you can make your arguments — and many people do from Scripture. I’m not persuaded at all [...]

Covenant Theology

I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Covenant Radio, today and feeling rather baffled.
The hosts, both Presbyterians, were interviewing a Reformed Baptist, Dr. Thomas Schreiner (yeah, I’m a bit behind on podcasts). They were engaging him in regard to a recent book of his called Believer’s Baptism that contended a position contrary to [...]

Election and Adoption Part 3: God’s Purpose in Election

This is the conclusion of a series. The first two installments are:
Part 1: Romans 7 and 8
Part 2: Gracious Sovereignty
As I stated in Part 2, I reject the notion that foreknowledge is prescriptive. I hold to the conviction that there is an interplay between man’s choice and God’s choice. One cannot rationally hold a robot [...]

And the Lord spake, saying, “What was I thinking?!”

Preterists who deny a physical Resurrection of the Dead have been accused of being gnostic (because we supposedly believe that only spiritual reality matters and that the physical world is evil). Yet those who demand a destruction of the physical universe and the replacement with a spiritual new heavens and new earth are surely closer [...]

Iambic tetrameter

The heavens and the earth have passed
The new has dawned, the night complete,
The day of judgment come. At last
The rule of Death dies in defeat.
The fear, the tears our fathers knew
Awaiting the Redeemer’s call
Have dried, has fled. The Life broke through;
Death’s victory was snatched withal.

All hope fulfilled and joy made whole
By overflowing life within,
Those purchased [...]

Election and Adoption Part 2: Gracious Sovereignty

I had to cut the last post short, somewhat abruptly as you might have noticed. But since presenting bite-size chunks is better for blogging anyway (not that you would know it from my posts!), so I went ahead and posted it. Here’s a continuation.
What I’m trying to do is present an audience-relevant view on certain [...]

Election and Adoption Part 1: Romans 7 and 8

As long as I can remember, I have struggled hard against the Calvinist understanding of the doctrine of election. Recently I have been observing and interacting with a number of people of the Reformed persuasion, and I am astounded at the intellects of some of the people wholly sold on a teaching that requires so [...]

The Sheep, the Goats, and the Judgment

One of people’s hang-ups about full preterism is that they feel that the Great White Throne Judgment sounds too momentous to apply to less than the sum total of humanity rather than those who died before AD 70 alone. Has the judgment of the nations occurred yet? Revelation 20 depicts the “General Resurrection” as the [...]

Peter speaks

Preterists point to a panoply of time statements in Scripture regarding the eschaton. Twenty of the twenty-six books of the NT give such time statements, expectations of an imminent occurrence of eschatological significance: “this generation shall not pass until…”; “about to”; “some standing here will not taste death before…”; “at hand”; “soon”.
Matthew 3:2,7,10,12, 4:17, 10:7,23, [...]