Re: Eschatology and The Beginning

At 11:55 AM 4/19/2006, Keith Miller wrote:
>David Opderbeck wrote:
>
>>Still, my "spiritual DNA" is unsettled by many TE ideas in
>>particular, not so much for how they interact with various creeds
>>and confessions (being raised in an independent dispensational
>>church, we didn't deal much in confessional statements), but for
>>how they interact with the "big picture." The
>>"creation-fall-restoration" paradigm seems like the right broad
>>outline, however one envisions the timing and details of the
>>restoration. But what is being "restored" if Adam was pretty much
>>just a regular neolithic guy living a regular neolithic life?
>
>I am not a theologian and have had no theological training, so my
>comments need to be taken in that context. I don't see a future
>"restoration" of a past state. Rather, what God is and will do is a
>"new" thing. The history of God's interaction with his creation,
>and with us as individuals, means something. It makes the future
>different than it would have been had not those particular events
>occurred. Our own sin will make that future different. Jesus still
>bears the marks of the cross.
>
>Responding to another issue discussed earlier, I believe that it is
>important theologically that the resurrection is a physical bodily
>resurrection. It may by more than physical, but it is not
>less. The physical resurrection, as well as the incarnation of the
>Christ, validate the eternal value of the physical creation. God
>embraced the physical creation that he made and took it upon
>himself. We are physical beings. We are not merely spiritual
>beings temporarily dressed in bodies. This issue is also tied with
>the future of the non-human creation -- which also has the promise
>of future redemption.
>Creation yearns for our redemption in which it will
>participate. There will be a new heavens and a new Earth.
>
>Keith

@ "Full" Preterism (sometimes called "consistent" Preterism) is
considered to be heresy (known as "Hymenaeanism") mainly because it
denies the bodily resurrection.
http://www.tektonics.org/esch/hythere.html

I am a partial Preterist. http://www.tektonics.org/esch/pretsum.html

  ~ Janice
Received on Wed Apr 19 12:36:42 2006