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Originally Posted by Godsdrummer
The preterist view was Christianity's majority view for over fifteen hundred years. The futurist view has since taken that majority position among Christians only over the last two hundred years or so. It actually mushroomed into the majority view that it now is shortly after John Nelson Darby began teaching it in the late 1880’s. This is when the "Pretribulation Rapture" doctrine really began...
Sean cut the theatrics and joking, if you actually did any study rather than repeat verbatim the things you were indoctrinated with by a man, you might have a different view of things.
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That is merely your opinion, along with a number of other ancient heretics, Loren......
Preterism became prominent thanks to a Jesuit priest, Luis de Alcazar, who sought to defend the Catholic Church against attacks of the Reformers. He sought to defend the Roman Church from claims about Catholic apostasy. The Preterism taught today, however, only became popular in the late 20th Century......
http://www.therefinersfire.org/preterism.htm
The ideas of preterism were only swirling around, because Israel was ceased as a nation, then it gained momentum with Alcazar, upon the writing of his beliefs.
Preterism is stopped in its tracks and has zero credibility now, with the rebirth of the nation of Israel.