SAD DAY:
It's always sad when having to write a post like this, and kind of Ironic given what I said in my last post about FIDE-O.
FIDE-O has abandoned dispensationalism. Ordinarily this is not nececssarily a bad thng. Thanks to the destructive and destabilizing affect that Charismatics have had on any area of theology they have touched, many fields, not just eschatology, are in tremendous flux.
People who run around claming that God has revealled this or that piece of exigetical nonsense are not usually open to instruction. The damage of charismatic subjectivism has been especially hard on dispensationalism. So viewing the chaos that has spread through dispensationalism like a cancer it's not suprising to see FIDE-O abandoning it. I would not be writing what I am about to write if FIDE-O HAD BECOME AMIL.
However it seems that FIDE-O has embraced Postmillenialism( Church will set up Gods' kingdom on earth). They also speak very highly of preterism ( a view that holds that everything has been fulfilled except the second comming, although some hold that even that has been fulfilled). They have spoken dismissively of, and not really responded to the attempt of one reader to call them to account for this.
They've also engaged in the selective quotation of early church fathers to make preterism look plausible.
As one who has read much about this type of issue, and not wishing to be tedious I wish to state one thing : One can legitmately prove from the writings of the church fathers that the two most ancient forms of eschatology in the church were a generalised premillenialism( which appears in writing first, Polycarp and Ireaneus) or Amillenialism( Origin is it's father and Augistine is it's mid-wife). It is true that one can find the odd statement by a church father that could be stretched to give apparent support to say preterism or postmillenialism but the whole tenor of their writings is either premil or Amil. Any other characterisation is simply very dishonest.
As FIDE-O has proceded on this course I must withdraw any and all recommendations inferred or implied, explicit or indirect.
FIDE-O IS NOW CLASSIFIED AS HETRODOX.
Enter at your own risk. A Sad Day Indeed!
It's always sad when having to write a post like this, and kind of Ironic given what I said in my last post about FIDE-O.
FIDE-O has abandoned dispensationalism. Ordinarily this is not nececssarily a bad thng. Thanks to the destructive and destabilizing affect that Charismatics have had on any area of theology they have touched, many fields, not just eschatology, are in tremendous flux.
People who run around claming that God has revealled this or that piece of exigetical nonsense are not usually open to instruction. The damage of charismatic subjectivism has been especially hard on dispensationalism. So viewing the chaos that has spread through dispensationalism like a cancer it's not suprising to see FIDE-O abandoning it. I would not be writing what I am about to write if FIDE-O HAD BECOME AMIL.
However it seems that FIDE-O has embraced Postmillenialism( Church will set up Gods' kingdom on earth). They also speak very highly of preterism ( a view that holds that everything has been fulfilled except the second comming, although some hold that even that has been fulfilled). They have spoken dismissively of, and not really responded to the attempt of one reader to call them to account for this.
They've also engaged in the selective quotation of early church fathers to make preterism look plausible.
As one who has read much about this type of issue, and not wishing to be tedious I wish to state one thing : One can legitmately prove from the writings of the church fathers that the two most ancient forms of eschatology in the church were a generalised premillenialism( which appears in writing first, Polycarp and Ireaneus) or Amillenialism( Origin is it's father and Augistine is it's mid-wife). It is true that one can find the odd statement by a church father that could be stretched to give apparent support to say preterism or postmillenialism but the whole tenor of their writings is either premil or Amil. Any other characterisation is simply very dishonest.
As FIDE-O has proceded on this course I must withdraw any and all recommendations inferred or implied, explicit or indirect.
FIDE-O IS NOW CLASSIFIED AS HETRODOX.
Enter at your own risk. A Sad Day Indeed!
posted by Berean at 1:20 PM
2 Comments:
In case you care, when I said Postmil I was referring to my new view of when the Second Coming would occur in contrast to my old Dispy Pre-trib view.
I did not mean for that to be confusing to you. In fact, that post was specifically about leaving Dispy for CT and I have another post about my eschatology.
I actually am more of an amiller since I don't believe in the "Golden Age" or Theonomy like most Postmillers.
Sorry for the confusion. and I hope your day gets better.
Your explanation is accepted. The
Hetrodox comment is Withdrawn.
I accept Amillenialism as being within the bounds of historic Christian Orthodoxy.
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