Originally Posted by George_De_Vries_3rd
Oh boy!

You are even off the reservation of what is called amillennialism by some but that view does spawn anti-Judaism and I've seen it time and again. BTW, the early Church fathers until at least late 200's AD were premillennialist and believed in a literal thousand year Millennium and a role for ethnic Israel in it.

Augustine spiritualized these scriptures because he was influenced by Origen of the Alexanderian school in Egypt and was influenced by Greek Philosophy as he tried to combat other heresies. "Spiritualizing" scriptures always opens the door to liberalism or wrong doctrine--it's like opening the door to an empty room where everybody then puts in their style of furniture.

This became RC doctrine and then went through the Reformation unreformed and here you are calling Israel a terrorist organization. Not so nasty my friend. Might not the Balfor Declaration in '17 and Israeli independence in '48 be hinting at God working through time and geopolitics to regather some of His chicks?

Curious, do you belong to RC Sprouls church?



You have to do a lot of fancy "reasoning" to get around the fact that the Christ of the New Testament identified the Judaism of his day (the Judaism of the "Traditions of the Elders" - later to be codified as the Talmud - which Christ identified as the "traditions of men," "making the word of God of none effect" - Mark 7:5-13) as a body of false and ungodly doctrines that lead its adherents to destruction. If, after the application of said "reasoning," you find yourself departing from this simple statement, then you are, by so doing, departing from the plain teachings of Christ.