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Originally Posted by Hesetmefree238
I have never believed we should split hairs over one's views on prophecy.
I have no problem whether or not a person is a futurist, partial futurist,
or partial preterist. I have read a lot of your writings over the years, and
have agreed many times with your writings (although I cannot call myself
a partial preterist) The problem with full preterism is as you stated it tears
away at one of six principles of our foundational doctrine listed in Hebrews
6:1-2. When we state that the Lord has already returned, there is no
coming rapture of the church, and no resurrection of the dead, we step into
an area that I am not comfortable with at all. In fact I believe at that point
it is a heresy. I do not say this in a mean spirit at all, it's just something I
believe to be a fact. As for calling someone "lost" that is an area I am
not comfortable with either, but I am comfortable in flagging this teaching
as false doctrine which I believe it to be.
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I am pretty close to your opinion here. I would just remind everyone that fp's believe
Acts 2 salvation gets us to glory, and the fp's believe we will spend eternity with the Lord, and not that we perish as Hymenaeus and Philetus implied we would perish. They do propose a resurrection of the dead when each of us dies, though it is not a resurrection as we would define it. But you will hear them preach there is an individual resurrection ahead of us for each of us. They will deny that they deny a resurrection of the church members.
I do not think fp's considered the implications of their belief (such as resurrection being one of the 6 principles and how they have to claim satan and sin and death will never be removed from the earth) strongly enough before accepting it. Had they been presented with those ramifications before accepting the belief, I think they would have abandoned it.
I feel discomfort in both areas you mentioned, myself. Amen.
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As for calling someone "lost" that is an area I am
not comfortable with either
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That is what I am trying to say. That is going a bit too far, in my books.