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Sure, anyone can perform good deeds. That's not the issue. Without placing your faith in Jesus, you cannot enter Heaven.

Are your objections aimed at Chick's tracts in general, or this one in particular? Whether someone could conceivably serve as a missionary for decades without preaching Christ is not really the point. Do you believe anyone can go to Heaven based solely on their good works, or is it only based...

The couple in the tract are not sent to Hell for following Christ's commands to love their neighbor, but for their failure to commit their own lives to Christ. While missionary work is a way to fulfill the Great Commission, it doesn't give us a ticket into Heaven. Chick makes his main point on...

Google didn't show me anything significant about that date. What happened?

Your arguments make an excellent case. I've never believed that the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, nor those "offices" ceased, but never could argue my case very well. On a slightly different topic, could you elaborate on the dating of John's Gospel and his epistles? All the...

Poll options are often opinions of what we would do or what we prefer. To your point, though, polls are really just choices rather than opinions.

Love how a poll is part of this topic :) I am never shy about sharing my opinion (even on those rare occasions when they are wrong).

Jesus never said that there would not be any more false prophets, wars, etc. after the events He was discussing. He did warn that those signs would precede the events He described, which they did. John's use of "last hour" is the same as other "time indicators" in the NT. Of course these...

One could take offense at the insinuation that Preterists do not take the actual words of the Bible seriously. However, I'm not looking for an argument, and I'm sure you didn't mean that the way it came out. I assure you that Preterists do indeed take every word of Scripture quite seriously...

While I do not believe these prophecies had a double fulfillment, I must confess that I do not know for certain. However, the prophecy that the gospel will be proclaimed throughout the whole world has been fulfilled per the following passages: Romans 1:8; Colossians 1:6, Colossians 1:23, and 1...

From my perspective, I flip that coin around. Futurists study with the preconceived idea that most of the "end times" prophecies are still in our future. Preterists understand, based on careful study of Scripture and history, that these events were fulfilled in the Jewish Wars ending with the...

The reason I hold to the early date is because it simply makes the most sense. I'm familiar with the argument that Augustus was the first emperor, but that's just a matter of semantics. Again, this view makes the most sense. I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you haven't heard before. I...

Many Preterists (including myself) believe that while Christ "came" in judgment on Jerusalem in AD 70, the actual 2nd Coming is still in our future.

Isn't that like asking what the prophecies warning Israel about coming events are doing in the Bible when those events came to pass centuries ago? Of course Revelation is relevant to us today, but not as a warning about the "End Times", "the Antichrist", etc. As John tells us at the beginning...

The warnings of Revelation were only meant for those whom it would have a direct impact on, not people far away. While most commentators do place Revelation in Domitian's time, many place this book (and John's exile) during Nero's time. The strongest evidence for the late date points to an...

A real bargain indeed. Last Days Madness was one of the first books that I read as I was learning about Preterism. Since then, I've read several more by DeMar and others. While I was unaware of the destruction of Jerusalem, it's highly unlikely that none of the pastors, Bible study leaders...

I had been totally unaware of the AD 70 destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple until about 2007. I learned of it when I was researching something, and chanced on the American Vision website. This got my attention, as it put the "End Times" passages into a new light. Ken Gentry's "Before...

I love finding things in the Scriptures that I had never seen before. Okay, in this case, I love it that @SavedByGrace has revealed something that I had never seen.

Thank you. I didn't know much about the history of Arminianism, nor the different views within that belief system. As a pretty recent convert to Reformed Theology, I find this quite interesting. I've been learning, and it's really interesting. More than that, it's like learning Biblical...

Please elaborate. These two views seem to be incompatible to each other. What am I missing?