Re: Eschatology and The Beginning

Thanks for the clarification Jack, I didn't mean to mischaracterize.

On 4/19/06, drsyme@cablespeed.com <drsyme@cablespeed.com> wrote:
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> It is fine Janice that you are a partial preterist.
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> Since David also thinks I am a partial preterist, which I
> am not, I want to make a couple of clarifications.
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> First of all to call preterism (and by this I mean "full"
> preterism) a Hymenaenism heresy is incorrect. We belive
> that the Hymenaenian's were wrong. The great resurrection
> had not happened at that time, it was not to ocurr until
> 70AD. Take this example, If I say to you that "the Royals
> won the 2006 World Series last month", that would clearly
> be incorrect, ( you might also think I was insane if I
> thought the Royals could possibly win the World Series.)
> But if in fact the Royals do win the World Series, and in
> November I say that "the Royals won the 2006 World Series
> last month", that would not be incorrect. So to label
> preterists hymenaeians is a logical fallicy.
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> Second what do preterists believe about the resurrection?
> Janice is incorrect to say that we do not believe in a
> bodily resurrection, we do. But is that body physical or
> just spiritual, this is debated among preterists. First
> we would argue that the resurrection of Christ is not
> exactly how believers are resurrected. The main
> difference being that Christ's body did not see decay,
> because it was sinless. Clearly our bodies decay in the
> grave. Preterism believes in the physical bodily
> resurrection of Christ, and in the resurrection of
> believers bodies, but not the self same body. Whether or
> not this body is physical plus something else, or not
> physical at all but only spiritual is debated. The
> clearest scripture for this is Paul's analogy of a seed.
> The seed is planted (the body) it dies, and something new
> is raised up.
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> But it is this incorruptible spiritual body that inherits
> the afterlife. We think that those bodies of believers
> that died prior to 70 AD have been resurrected, are are
> now residing with Christ. Since 70 AD all believers that
> die go immediately into their spiritual body to be with
> Christ, there is no more Hades (Death). We are not
> expecting a "second" second coming (a third coming?)
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> > @ "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
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> > I am a partial Preterist.
> >http://www.tektonics.org/esch/pretsum.html
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> > ~ Janice
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Received on Wed Apr 19 15:11:18 2006