Eschatology
Growing Responses
In the four weeks since my paper presentation at the Evangelical Theological Society’s Midwest Regional Meeting in Grand Rapids, I have received 59 requests (to date) for an electronic copy of it from other ETS members in seminaries around the country and a few from other countries who were not in attendance. My paper…
READ MORE →The Easter Quiz — See How You Do
One of the fruitful activities our extended family did for Easter this year was this biblical quiz I concocted. It generated some great fun, fellowship, and lots of conversation. Right answers won tootsie pops. See how well you do on these 10 questions. They start easy and get harder. Correct answers are at the bottom.…
READ MORE →Positive Response Running 10 to 1
Below are examples of some of the positive responses (10 to 1) to my recent ETS theological paper and book both titled, “Unraveling the End: A Biblical Synthesis of Four Competing and Conflicting End-time Views.” For some of the harsh criticism I’m getting from some in the preterist camp see my previous blog “Arrogance or Confidence”…
READ MORE →Arrogance or Confidence?
Here’s an example of the harsh criticism I’m getting from some in the preterist camp over my recent ETS theological paper and book both titled, “Unraveling the End.” “Wow, the arrogance and shallow scholarship! You are telling people at ETS that full preterism is in error for teaching that the Second Coming of Jesus…
READ MORE →Best Responses Ever
This past Friday, I presented (read) my seventeenth theological paper at the 59th Annual Midwest Regional Evangelical Theological Society Meeting in Grand Rapids, MI at Grace Bible College. All of my papers, over the past twenty years, have addressed eschatological reform topics and issues. But by far, this paper received the best, most…
READ MORE →Which Jesus Is the Jesus You Follow . . . and Serve?
No longer is Jesus the earth-bound, historical Jesus of Nazareth we have come to know and love in churches around the world every week. No longer is He the sleeping babe in a manger we celebrate every Christmas, or the boy who played in Galilee, or the man they hung at Calvary, or even the…
READ MORE →3 Oblivious Objections
In negative reaction against my two latest blogs: ‘The Great End-time Fiasco” and “Oblivious Eschatology,” and my responses . . . . See what you think. Objection #1: “True, Jesus’ disciples expected him to return in their lifetime . . . but it didn’t happen. Get over it.” My Response: Jesus’ disciples and…
READ MORE →The Great End-time Fiasco
A fiasco is defined as being “a complete or ridiculous failure, humiliating breakdown.” And the essence of “the great end-time fiasco” is twofold: Element #1) Things that were supposed to happen didn’t happen as New Testament expectations proved false. Here’s how the much-revered C.S. Lewis framed these “fail expectations” in his essay, “The…
READ MORE →Oblivious Eschatology?
Dr. Billy Graham, in an exclusive interview in Whistleblower magazine (Dec. 2013), just declared that the “Second Coming is near” and signs of the end of the age are “converging now for the first time since Jesus made those predictions.” For the first time, oh, really? Graham continues, “Only Jesus Christ when he comes…
READ MORE →Little Jesus, Meek and Mild — Not Anymore!
For many Americans and millions of others our first introductions to Jesus were little nursery rhymes learned in childhood, such as: “Little Jesus, meek and mild ? Look upon a little child.” But He’s not like this anymore! The testimony of Scripture is, Jesus has changed—in major, magnificent, and significant ways—from his…
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