Pre- mid- or post-?
Submitted by chadrory on Sat, 2007-12-22 23:11.
I've been discussing the tribulation issue with some friends of mine this evening... We are all over the place. Every one of us supports one of the other. Me, well, I am of the opinion that Jesus is coming back. Plain and simple. I would love to hear your opinion.
Chad.
no mysticism in II Peter?
"...Until the Daystar be risen in your hearts..."
Peter acknowledges that his own testimony is only a small lamp in a dark night, and that eventually his readers should (led, perhaps, by that lamp) come to a point when the full Light dawns upon them, internally, in their souls, and they understand what he's talking about. You don't think Peter pulled any mystic perspective from the Transfiguration?
That dig at Trinitarians is a little unnecessary--especially since they would say the exact same thing about you and the "false prophets among the people" you mention. (I'm not among those particular critics). "By what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." You can't point the "misunderstand-the-scriptures" finger and not point back at yourself. Fault-finding is itself a fault.
"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." John 5.39-40