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On what textual basis do you interpret the 1260 as literal days here and sometimes literal years? There is noo "fantasy" in believing in that 7 year or 3,5 year tribulation. Those are the time lengths given in the book of Revelation itself! How is that fantasy??

Agreed. But they have to take the two witnesses not as two people, since they view it at 1260 years. I saw many reformers believed the city where our Lord was crucified somehow wasn't Jerusalem where they lay dead. It was either soemthing about the french revolution or Rome... The obsession...

Is it though? The Bible seems to teach a 7 year, or 3,5 year great tribulation. Not one that spans 2000+ years. You and I are living peaceful lives, where is the tribulation so bad that has never been seen before nor shall be ever again, the tribulation that is so bad that no flesh would be...

If the 1260 days in Rev 13 are years, what about the trampling of Jerusalem and the two witnesses who witness IN Jerusalem where their Lord was crucified for 1260 days. How can that be years and I remember Adventists teaching "where their Lord was crucified" and great city somehow isnt...

Yes I am. Its a narrow road

Fascinating stuff but the two witnesses being in the first century would mean that the 7th trumpet already was blown? Normally historicists put that after the destruction of Rome. So whats this about? Glad to see a fresh perspective on eschatology. Is it really 1260 years from Moses to...

I'd agree if it wasn't for such a long time. I just don't see it in Scriptures is what im saying and neither did they. Jesus said He will build His Church and the gates of hell will not prevail and that the Holy Spirit would lead into all truth.

I have read it, I am just convinced. What Paul says at verse 39 does in no way get rid of the warning and if you werent commited to this belief system you could see it. Paul has no idea who is going to persevere and who isnt going to draw back. Demas was his brother, then later on in his...

Verse 29 says that they were sanctified by the blood but are no longer, now they receive a punishment worse than death and Christ's sacrifice is of no use to them anymore. Just like in Galatians those who wanted to be justified by the law of Moses. Well, this is gonna be a fruitless debate as...

You don't have to agree with the man but you can show some respect. I hope we can all agree to disagree on certain things. Does the Bible say you must be a preterist, futurist, dispensationalist, historicist, zionist to be saved? Or does it say you must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved?

By Jews I did not mean the Apostles, I wrote that the apostolic interpretation is the correct one. I meant the Jews who rejected Jesus, who embrace what is called judaism, they indeed got it all wrong and continue to do so today. I would agree Paul was premill and futurist but I would dispute...

"Fruchtenbaum continues to teach based on what some call a "Midrashic Hermeneutic", his particular focus is on the Judaic background of the Gospels." I think I should pass, the jews got it wrong, their interpretation led them to reject the Messiah so the jewish background isn't of any value...

Nah, genuine faith can be lost based on Hebrews 10:29 "How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?"...

Thank you. I am just a regular guy who loves to study the Bible and I do talk to people in the highways and byways. If your pastor is a calvinist, he will probably say the counter-factuals were also predestined and God acts within time to accomplish those, He caused David to inquire that etc...

I am undecided, but I do see that God has predestined some things, not all things. But assuming God knows the future free will choices a 100% to answer your question: Because God knowing something ahead of time does not cause humans to act the way they do, so while the future is settled in a...

Foreknowledge does not equal causation. Allow me to show it from the Scriptures, where God foreknows something that does not eventually happen: 1 Samuel 23:11-13 Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, I pray, tell...

That Jacob being chosen has nothing to do with salvation, Jacob was chosen to be the one who receives the blessing of the firstborn despite being the younger.

Doesn't this verse kinda shake up the calvinist theology a bit? These vessels are prepared unto glory but it says these people were called to be such vessels? Seems to me its still up in the air on if these people end up those vessels unto glory

Ordains and creates is pretty much the same. But the Lord's prayer is so that God's will MAY BE DONE ON EARTH as it is in heaven. So in heaven it is done, on earth not so much. Pick up a news paper

You wanna hear something truly terrifying? Look up the concept of "evanescent grace" Its a temporary grace God gives to someone, to trick them into believing they are true believers, only to find out later that oh whoops, it wasnt effectual grace, it was evanescent grace. All these...