Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Strawmen

Here's another strawman from the pre-wrath page
So, it is illegitimate when an Amillennialist asserts, "This Bible passage says the kingdom is happening right now, therefore it is completely fulfilled in all its aspects with no future reality to be realized.” The reasoning does not follow Biblically as we noted above because the nature of the kingdom of God is inaugurated and progressive, which will be realized in all its fullness at the commencement of the age to come.
First of all, this doesn't sound like anything I have ever heard any Amillennialist say. That's not to say that there are none that would say this, rather that it's quite out of the norm for Amillennialists to say that there is no future aspect of the Kingdom. That would be silly since for the Amillenialist, at the very least, the entire church history which was future from 30 AD is seen by Jesus as part of the Kingdom of God.

Secondly, I know of no Amillennialist who denies the Second Coming as a future event. Some hyper-preterists assert that, not no Amillennialist that I have ever read or heard of would assert such a thing.

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