Recent content by asterisktom

If it was years ago then, yes, my view has changed quite a bit. Since that time I have realized that most of full preterism is a form of gnosticism, under the influence of what I call the Pope of Preterism, Don K. Preston. I don't have time to write now, but I probably wrote things I shouldn't...

John, the older I get the more I try to make good use of my efforts. I'm not saying your stupid or anything like that. I am sure you are quite astute in a number of areas. But you just don't understand my Preterism. I don't "make the Lord's coming a 'spiritual' coming in AD 70". It was actually...

This is why I passed on commenting to you, John. Comments like this. I am not the one doubting the book of Revelation. I do doubt your ability (or at least willingness) to consider that maybe the view that you grew up with is not in line with Scripture. Cooper's Golden Rule overrules, for...

It is only church tradition that assumes that those men were disciples of John, or even had met him. Very often these stories are made up to grant authority to later persons and places. Phillip Schaff makes several good comments along these lines. But, more importantly, concerning your second...

What's in a name? A big clue, actually... https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2021/07/13/the-two-pillars-of-gods-presence/

No, what I'm going to do is ignore you again. I showed you the plain scripture. Not wasting any more time on discussing this with you.

Phil. 1:29: "For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;" Two things were given to the saints here: Faith and suffering. Unless you are going to argue that there is somehow a difference between believing and faith. Or that their...

Who knows? Maybe it will be in the eternal archive for us to know about, I Cor. 13:12.

I probably didn't phrase that right. Let me just say that He doesn't just look into the future (as if He needed to find anything out) but that He knows the future because He controls it.

Yes, He does. It is called omniscience. And He also is the one who gave the faith to begin with, Phil. 1:29, John 1:12-13.

And you can bet that there was more than a nutshell worth in what the Lord told those two disciples. The more you read the Old Testament the you see passages that He might have referred to. Some of the Reformed writers really drew out a lot of those riches.

What you say is true, but my point is that our gospel is more than what is in those two "nutshell" verses. Many of the writers, in Reformation times for instance, had no problem dwelling long and richly on what we have in this "good news".

What is the Gospel? (Part 2) Necessary Elements of the Gospel Moving on from what the Gospel is not, it would be helpful to define what exactly the Gospel is. And coming up with a good description is surprisingly tricky. The Old Covenant, Paul writes, had its “elements” (στοιχεῖα - “rudiments”...

Only one Gospel, but more than one Gospel passage 1 Cor. 15:3-4 is most often cited as the Gospel verse. And understandably so. But it is not the only Gospel verse, just the most obvious and convenient one, seeing that it contains the very word and is relatively concise. But it assumes a certain...