Changing To Preterism from Rapture Doctrine

[Sean]

Originally Posted by mfblume

There he goes again!!!!

You always only make cognitive dissonant distractions and not deal with the actual issue. You take the attention off yourself and desperately try to make ME LOOK BAD by avoiding the issue that you send people to hell for "Simply, to me." You have NO grounds to say Rev 22 is reality because the chapter does not say so, when it issues THE VERY LAMB you say is a sign and the VERY RIVER you say is a sign.

Answer the issue. Your "Simply, to me" doctrine is groundless.

You said the LAMB is not what we see. You said the rivers of living water is NOT WHAT WE SEE. And what is your basis? "Simply, to me."

Mike, we are here it seems, to play a little game of wit matching.

But really, there are 2 perspectives here.

Perspective #1(mine).....I am trying my best to keep the passage intact and minimize any foreign ideas into the passage. I want to see what John was saying in the passage.

Perspective #2(yours)......You want to try your best to make the passage say something entirely different, using typology and metaphors, reading a passage with sarcasm(at times) at the wording, ready to find other hidden meanings.

There is a passage that the Lord used, that we see in no other book of the Bible.

It is a direct threat to anyone that tampers with it's contents.(do you realize that misquoting this book can d....n a soul?)

I dread the thought of being lost over this passage....

18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

This passage, is the center of my reasoning when trying to figure out what this book is saying.

I view your stance as so extreme, that this passage was, and is speaking of folks like you, that would come in the future to reason away the words of the book as you do.

Jesus KNEW that preterism would rise in the future and spoke accordingly.

I can only give you this word of advice.....

Let this passage be your premise as you attempt to "discipher" Revelations.

You will be less apt to re-invent meanings of entire chapters again