Since liberals (in addition to dispensationalists) charge preteristic theology with anti-Semitism, I have been responding to show the absurdity of such a charge. And I have been showing it in such a way that should scare off dispensationalists from aligning themselves with liberals in this moral argument. I will continue (and conclude) this line of [...]
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To criticize the preterist interpretation as anti-Semitic because of its strong teaching against the first-century Jews requires that you also criticize the Gospels and Acts on the same basis. Those liberals who charge that Revelation’s denunciations of Israel are anti-Semitic must also charge the Gospels and Acts as such. In fact, virtually every contemporary academic [...]
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Preterism is attacked on several grounds. One of those is the moral ground of promoting anti-Semitism. I have been looking at this question in the two previous blogs. Now I must engage a defense of preterism against this heinous charge. Is the preterist scheme anti-Semitic as dispensationalists charge? This is personal to me for I [...]
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Dispensationalism charges preterism with anti-Semitism. This is because preterists believe that two series of events from the first century are foundational to NT prophecy and the future development of human history. The first set of events involve the birth, life, work, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ. The second includes the destruction of Jerusalem, the [...]
Full Story »Fox News — Wednesday night the first presidential debate will take place in Denver. The focus will be on domestic policy. But it’s a safe bet, while you’ll likely hear about ObamaCare, you won’t hear about the doctors on the front lines of medicine in the United States today. President Obama has said he likes [...]
Full Story »To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first eugenics conference, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put on a family planning conference this summer. The conference, which began on 11 July and was co-hosted by the UK Department for International Development, included among its coalition partners such organizations as Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes International, and [...]
Full Story »Ligonier Ministries (by Phil Johnson) — My assignment in this hour is to give a critical review of an influential book by Anglican author N.T. Wright, the Bishop of Durham. The book is titled What Saint Paul Really Said. It’s a fairly thin paperback, fewer than 200 pages, and although Wright is a prolific writer, [...]
Full Story »Forbes — It’s desperation time for global warming alarmists. Don’t believe me? Just look at what they’re parading as their best media story right now. They’re in a frenzy this week, crying “The Sky Is Falling!” in light of predictions by a group called DARA that global warming will kill more than 100 million people [...]
Full Story »Fox News (by Kathleen Troia McFarland, Fox National Security Analyst) Today, most of the mainstream media have stopped reporting on the Libyan assassinations on the anniversary of September 11th. They have moved on to the next story in the news cycle. They’ve decided that while the administration may have made a few mistakes in statements [...]
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Preterism holds that God judged Israel in AD 70 and removed her from her place of prominence in redemptive-history. Two issues merge today in forming the anti-Semitism charge against preterism: The first is the horrific Nazi holocaust that ruthlessly slaughtered so many Jews. This enormous evil has rightly impacted our psyche regarding both the suffering [...]
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KINGDOM LEAVENThe Parable of the Leaven reads: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid i...
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