Comments on: My love affair with theology http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-love-affair-with-theology By faith, Abraham... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:03:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Christian responsibility according to St. Paul http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/comment-page-1/#comment-12367 Christian responsibility according to St. Paul Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:35:38 +0000 http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/#comment-12367 [...] the fold, and, almost incidentally, attempting to be a better person. Quite recently I’ve made the argument that those who claim that Christianity was originally supposed to be about believing the right [...] [...] the fold, and, almost incidentally, attempting to be a better person. Quite recently I’ve made the argument that those who claim that Christianity was originally supposed to be about believing the right [...]

]]> By: What I meant and what I didn’t http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/comment-page-1/#comment-11013 What I meant and what I didn’t Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:12:53 +0000 http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/#comment-11013 [...] Recent Comments My love affair with theology [...] [...] Recent Comments My love affair with theology [...]

]]> By: Virgil http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/comment-page-1/#comment-11010 Virgil Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:02:41 +0000 http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/#comment-11010 I wonder if Calvinism leads to murder? Hmmm.... I wonder if Calvinism leads to murder? Hmmm….

]]> By: John Paul http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/comment-page-1/#comment-11009 John Paul Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:53:54 +0000 http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/#comment-11009 To claim that Preterism leads one to atheism is one of the silliest comments I have ever heard. If you at least examine where the person is coming from you can determine hopefully from there why they are where they are today, but it is only a conclusion you have come up with when it is God who knows the heart on what really is going on. If any eschatological view would lead anyone to atheism it would be the futurist view who has set so many dates that have failed. Just like the dispies who says the Jews had a chance to claim Christ as their Messiah but instead they sent Him to the cross is the most lame excuses ever for it was Christ who rejected them. So, within any religion, any domination or differences in eschatological positions you can hear of people who have fallen into doubt or, in better terms, is harboring anger towards God in which they might for a season grow, or seem, tired. I know I have fallen like this before, angry towards God, and it wasn't preterism at all that caused it but thanks to God's patience with my impatience in a few months or even years i was able to see the reason behind everything and I was blessed and greatly regretted the season of anger I was harboring. I even experienced a fellow believer who seemed good in how they presented themselves but the longer you would hang around them you would end up getting hurt along with things being taken from you that cannot be replaced. I still to this day harbor some anger in my heart at this one person, which i welcome prayers to help overcome, but it was not preterism in any such manner causing these things to happen...problems can come from a variety of sources. Preterism needs to stop being used as the excuses we are hearing from most of you futurist for people falling away or just outright growing tired which is sad to hear when it happens to believers we know but it is not because of preterism. As a futurist once, I greatly was tired when all i would hear was a Premil doctrine from pastors like Charles Stanley, whom i greatly enjoyed hearing back then, and Hal Lindsey whom through his false teaching I had a desire to look into things and thanks to God, through those false futurist teachers, who only would discourage you or give you a since of false hope, I was able to see the blessings that is already ours in Christ and many other preterist back then shared the same blessings as I when we first came to the realization of the time statements and audience relevance. To claim that Preterism leads one to atheism is one of the silliest comments I have ever heard.

If you at least examine where the person is coming from you can determine hopefully from there why they are where they are today, but it is only a conclusion you have come up with when it is God who knows the heart on what really is going on.

If any eschatological view would lead anyone to atheism it would be the futurist view who has set so many dates that have failed. Just like the dispies who says the Jews had a chance to claim Christ as their Messiah but instead they sent Him to the cross is the most lame excuses ever for it was Christ who rejected them.

So, within any religion, any domination or differences in eschatological positions you can hear of people who have fallen into doubt or, in better terms, is harboring anger towards God in which they might for a season grow, or seem, tired. I know I have fallen like this before, angry towards God, and it wasn’t preterism at all that caused it but thanks to God’s patience with my impatience in a few months or even years i was able to see the reason behind everything and I was blessed and greatly regretted the season of anger I was harboring. I even experienced a fellow believer who seemed good in how they presented themselves but the longer you would hang around them you would end up getting hurt along with things being taken from you that cannot be replaced. I still to this day harbor some anger in my heart at this one person, which i welcome prayers to help overcome, but it was not preterism in any such manner causing these things to happen…problems can come from a variety of sources.

Preterism needs to stop being used as the excuses we are hearing from most of you futurist for people falling away or just outright growing tired which is sad to hear when it happens to believers we know but it is not because of preterism.

As a futurist once, I greatly was tired when all i would hear was a Premil doctrine from pastors like Charles Stanley, whom i greatly enjoyed hearing back then, and Hal Lindsey whom through his false teaching I had a desire to look into things and thanks to God, through those false futurist teachers, who only would discourage you or give you a since of false hope, I was able to see the blessings that is already ours in Christ and many other preterist back then shared the same blessings as I when we first came to the realization of the time statements and audience relevance.

]]> By: davo http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/comment-page-1/#comment-10976 davo Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:25:07 +0000 http://undeception.com/my-love-affair-with-theology/#comment-10976 Bishop Spong recounts the words of an elderly priest: "<em>The older I get, the more deeply I believe but the less beliefs I have</em>." Bishop Spong recounts the words of an elderly priest: “The older I get, the more deeply I believe but the less beliefs I have.”

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