Mediancat

In the CF Outcasts thread (II), one of the posters mentioned something called preterism, and gave a brief description of it as the concept that Jesus' second coming happened a long time ago. Curious -- I'd never heard of this before -- I did a quick search on the internet, but unfortunately the first few sites I came across were either incoherent or not designed for the merely curious.

So could someone give me a slightly longer idea of what this doctrine called "preterism" is?

Rob aka Mediancat

CJD

http://www.preterist.org/aboutpreterism.htm

*This other one is a bit more more time-consuming:

http://www.preteristarchive.com/Pret...todd_p_01.html

* Note that "full" preterists stand outside of creedal orthodoxy by arguing that the Christian today cannot expect the Christ to return, since he has already, once for all, in judgment during the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. There are those who consider themselves "partial" preterists who hold to a kind of double fulfillment, arguing that the Christ did return in judgment upon Israel in 70 AD (thereby alleviating the time-frame demands of the Olivet discourse), and that Christians post-70 AD must nonetheless expect a final consummation of the whole drama of redemption with a personal return of the Christ (which the NT documents also teach without definitive time-frame references). The skinny on them can be found at . . .

http://www.preteristarchive.com/Part...ism/index.html

Hope this helps.

CJD

AdamWho

When I was a christian I always thought of salvation as the metaphorical return of christ.