I'm with you. The preterist position can only be arrived at by following Origen and Augustine and "spiritualizing" or allegorizing Scripture, and ignoring both the literal meaning of the text, and the recorded history of AD 70.As you know, I, & others, have repeatedly asked the preterists here to PROVE their assertions, and all they've provided are conjectures, incorrect opinions, imaginations, red herrings, bunny trails, & goofy excuses, E, G. -
"The language in the Scriptures is figurative/symbolic/metaphorical."
"It happened in the spirit world."
"You simply missed their happenings."
Then, their excuses become outright outlandish:
"Josephus and a couple of others saw chariots in the sky"
(Well, my kids, at age five, saw submarines in the sky.)
"The image of Caesar on Roman coins was the mark of the beast."
(In that case, several past US Presidents were "beast-ettes", as their images are on OUR coins.)
"The Roman army committed the AOD.."
(How 80,000 men crowded into the temple & set up images in it is beyond me!)
"Jesus came in the clouds in 70 AD & took up all the believers to heaven."
(If that's so, loox as if He missed quite a few, as there were plenty of Christians around in 71 AD.)
So far, these, and similar excuses & guessworks have been all that the preterists here and elsewhere have provided, because that's all they have to provide til they can make up some new ones!
The TRUTH is, preterism is just another FALSE, MAN-MADE DOCTRINE of faith & worship that Satan has used to deceive some of the very "elect". It's part of the cesspool that includes the KJVO myth, 'regenerational baptism", oneness/modalism, "all believers shall speak in tongues", & other hooey invented by men. ALL of them should be rejected by Baptists.
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