Does Preterism Offer Any Future Hope?
I didn’t intend to suddenly post a bunch of quotes from Andrew Perriman, but as I’ve been reading the conversations at OST I’m finding some great stuff. Or at least it’s great to me because it addresses some of my worries about what a preterist eschatology does to any future hope for the creation. So with that explanation, here is the latest quote: I strongly contend that the New Testament still holds out the prospect of a final resurrection, justice, and renewal of creation. Source Here are a couple more: What is so strange about Jesus and the authors of the New Testament speaking, in the language of Old Testament prophecy, about events in the foreseeable future that would have a profound and decisive impact on Israel and the early church? Why should that sort of prophetic concern for the impending experience of a historical community be condemned as overrealized! As you point out, this realistic historical focus is not at all at odds with the belief that there will be a final resurre
