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Recently I was engaged in one of the strangest discussions.

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Ep.34 – Rapping on Some Eschatology with Pastor Jonathan Goundry, Part One

Pastor Jonathan Goundry and I have embarked upon an eschatology series on his show, King and Servant. After each show has been available on his feed for a few weeks, I will cross-post it here. I really encourage you to support his show.

Perhaps I was naive in thinking that I could stay out of the fight, and perhaps my being hurt so greatly by this suggests I need to thicken my skin.

Dee Dee Warren and the PreteristBlog gang used to point this kind of stuff out, but that was before her little followers desired to be so much like her highness that they have begun to make podcasts that sound like her. (source)

I just want to say that I am very thankful for the opportunity to contribute to a podcast that has changed lives. I was just privy to an encouraging email from someone who has been helped immensely by this show. And I’ve received comments and email from people concerning my posts at this blog suggesting that I, too, have helped people, and by that I’m tremendously blessed.

For the record, I don’t want to be like Dee Dee. I want to be like Christ, who loved. I want to listen to Paul who said, “now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.” I contribute here and to the podcast because I am trying earnestly to love people and to edify the Church. If I’ve succeeded at all in that, thank you so much, Lord. And yes, thank you, Dee Dee, for the opportunity.

Updates to the Interesting Blogs Page

• Marvelous Mountains and Clueless Dispensationalism on the Against Dispensationalism Blog

Updates to the Misc Resources Page

• The Roman Siege of Jerusalem By J.E. Lendon

I found some wonderful gems in a work by Oscar Cullman Immorality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Body that are VERY relevant to the hyperpreterist debate. Enjoy!

…death as such is the enemy of God. For God is Life and the Creator of life. It is not by the will of God that there are withering and decay, dying and sickness, the byproducts of death working in our life. All these things, according to Christian and Jewish thinking, come from human sin. Therefore, every healing which Jesus accomplishes is not only a driving back of death, but also an invasion of the province of sin; and therefore on every occasion Jesus says: “Your sins are forgiven.” Not as though there were a corresponding sin for every individual sickness; but rather, like the presence of death, the fact that sickness exists at all is a consequence of the sinful condition of the whole of humanity. Every healing is a partial resurrection, a partial victory of life over death. That is the Christian point of view. According to the Greek interpretation, on the contrary, bodily sickness is a corollary of the fact that the body is bad in itself and is ordained to destruction. For the Christian an anticipation of the Resurrection can already become visible, even in the earthly body.

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Some of you may be familiar with Greg Koukl’s “Stand to Reason” apologetics ministry. They have a weekly radio show, archived in podcast form, and I’ve recently begun listening. In a couple of recent episodes, callers in have asked about preterism, and Greg (and the callers in) has distinguished between preterism and hyperpreterism using the abhorrent “partial” and “full” prefixes, against which Dee Dee has rightfully railed (see this blog post, a shorter version of Dee Dee’s article, “Perfuming the Hog“).

Being new to Greg’s show but having developed a respect for him and his aim toward teaching Christians how to think, rather than merely what to think, I decided I’d call in and humbly request that he change his terminology. I agree with Dee Dee that the terminology we employ is important, and likewise wrote about it at my blog in “A War Over Words“. If you would like to listen to my discussion with Greg, check out his podcast and listen to July 18th’s show, “Reflections on UK Vacation.” I was the first caller in the second hour of the show, and you can fast forward to 00:59:43 if you want to skip to my call.

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Our very own Chris Date has guest-hosted an episode of The Preterist Podcast, titled Kicking Some Left Behind Part 5- Jesus, the Not-So Master Communicator. Enjoy!

I’ve covered most of the sort of overarching eschatological assumptions I had intended to address, those which impact how we understand a variety of “end times” passages throughout Scripture. Today, because I witnessed it in action in a recent episode of a podcast I listen to, I want to look at something more particular, more specific. While perhaps not properly characterized as an assumption, this idea is nevertheless often presumed to be true without any effort to look elsewhere in Scripture to see if it is warranted.

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Ok, so it’s taken too long, I know. But I have the episode complete and am getting it to Dee Dee to review right now. Assuming there aren’t any drastic changes necessary, it should be published soon.

John as it turns out your issue isn’t with me, but Mike Sullivan a coauthor of “House Divided”.

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