Hello Tom,
The confessions point to scripture as the only rule of faith and practice. The confessions give a mainline view of the believing church.
Well...i do not think I made that leap. I asked you as time permits to show how most all of the church have not gone on to a full preterist position.
When I mention the confessions...it was only to say that I am not aware of a full preterist confession of faith.
The position starts out okay...but runs out of gas in that the nature of the coming in the clouds...gets pressed more than what scripture would indicate.
The judgement was ......the sign of the Son of Man...In Heaven....I do not see a bodily return here???
I do not see how it addresses this statement;
There is a
1]going
2]A...coming again
3]a place...where I am
4] there we will be also....after a coming again
Many who understand the time texts also see a second coming clearly taught...besides the coming in judgement of 70 ad. The White throne judgement, and Jn 5 last day are still future.
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.