Against Panmillenialism
I think it's high time we talked a little about eschatology here at the pub, therefore I refer you to what I think is a pithy primer on postmillenialism. Read it here if you wish, and then chip in your $.02.My favorite quote from this post (in case you're too lazy to click on the link and read a lengthy post) is the following:
"The problem with panmillenialsim, premillenialism, and amillenialism is that they miss the thrust of God's program from the beginning. From the beginning, God's program was to 'heavenize' earth through His image bearers. Man's task was to take the 'raw material' of the world and press down God's heavenly pattern upon it according to His Word. When man fell from this purpose through sin, God restored them to that purpose through the resurrection of the second Adam. "
Let's remember to be charitable, and to attack ideas and not people.
posted by DrewDog | 12:37 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks, Aaron. Well put.
I think Wright does a good job of putting the problem of evil into the language of Joe Schmoe, and addressing it in a way that can make sense to Joe. And his answer is indeed my answer: God has/will finally put the world to rights in an act of new creation.
We are the new humanity, in Christ (the New Man), bringing new creation to the uttermost parts of the earth, praying as we go that His Kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Or something like that.
Missed you last night, Aaron. Hope you can make it next week.
I loved the point that Wilson made on St, Anne's. He talked about how the premil pretribber's worldview doesnt' match their experience. Slim to no chance of persecution, spoiled to death, free to worship, dentistry, indoor plumbing, air-conditioning, the gospel is going out into all the world triumphantly, and they watch the news and figure this place is going to hell in a handbasket.
And how interesting it is that when we look at church history, we see that it is filled with saints/martyrs who daily faced persecution, death, disease, a globe that was largely unreached, etc., and yet they believed that they were seeing Christ's Kingdom advance day by day. They too, had a worldview that did not match their experience, but that is because they looked at the world with the eyes of faith.
damn sensationalist media!
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