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" I fully realize that advocates for a preterist view of Revelation do not believe, at least for the most part, that Roman Catholics are even Christians and that commentaries on the Bible are nothing but the opinions of men." I'm not sure where you got this notion about Preterists and Roman...

"Majority view" carries little weight with me. The majority do not have a saving faith or knowledge of God. Our understanding of spiritual truth comes from Christ not consensus. There are several good reasons to see Revelation and the rest of Scripture as being written pre-70 AD. I wrote on...

I have been quoting Scripture. And asking the same from you. In vain.

I think the greater imagination would be to redefine the many occurrences of the words and phrases "soon", "this generation", and "quickly" to mean other than what a plain reading would yield.

Justification by faith implies there is nothing added to it.

By Rome. Eck and several other leaders of the RCC challenged Luther by countering that his doctrine of justification by faith alone had no previous mention in the counsels and creeds.

My response was because of JesusFan's usual reaction, calling my view a heresy and also your saying "yes" to it.

Martin Luther's belief in justification by faith had also been defined as heresy. And I guess you know what his answer was.

I challenge either one of you to show me from Scripture - not from mere creeds - where my belief in a 1st century Parousia is heretical.

I wrote this article first in a number of Preterist groups, to fellow Preterists. Too many are followers of the heretical notions of teachers like Don K. Preston and JL Vaughn, to name just two. For this reason so many are enamored with everything that has to do with AD 70 that they ignore sound...

I was unclear on this. I am a Preterist. And I meant that *some* Preterists have gotten off track, specifically the Covenant Eschatology group headed by Don K. Preston and the Covenant Creationists.

Many passages are so full of riches that it is helpful to just focus on a few verses. These four verses have foundational truth that is very much needed to set many Preterists back on the straight and narrow. Here we have, once again, essential saving doctrine. Not to believe these is to be...

I had forgotten I had written the above. But I am still happy with Linux, although I have changed to MX Linux. And still using Gimp roughly every other day, mostly prepping and uploading photos to Flickr or to my travelblog. My main browser is Brave. I don't know why so many just hang on to...

There is a vast difference between Soviets - especially, Stalin-era Soviets - and Russians. Most Russians I met there would cringe at your conflation of the two.

"Fortunate Son" might very well be my favorite CCR song. Idealism is great. As a Christian I intend to hold onto mine. The problem comes when the idealism is, like I wrote, combines with cluelessness. Most Americans and Europeans are uninformed on the Ukraine War. Rather, I should write...

In light of this discussion I thought this article I wrote on our unplanned, extended tour of Ukraine might be of interest. This is the first of eight articles, including all of the major areas of the country as it was at that time. Our time there was extended because we were not able to fly out...

More people in the eastern areas of Ukraine speak Russian than Ukrainian, 87% (in the south it is 82%). I found plenty of proof in those areas. I was easily understood when I spoke to them, although my Russian is not great. Even in Kiev, I actually heard more Russian than I expected. In fact I...

Yes, it is. Hopefully engrained in me.

https://asterisktomato.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/for-this-i-pray-and-every-day/

Everything God willed and decreed He did in the “beginning“. Not that He had one. He is not like us, who decide absolutely nothing at our beginning, who need a lifetime of growing and knowing to choose and do the good. His wisdom, power, goodness, love were already all perfected ...