February 2009 Blog Posts (56)

Fragments of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Found

Fragments of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Found

Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News

Feb. 27, 2009 -- Some newly recovered papyrus fragments may finally help solve a century-old puzzle, shedding new light on ancient Egyptian history.

Found stored between two sheets of glass in the basement of the Museo Egizio in Turin, the fragments belong to a… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 28, 2009 at 2:25am — 3 Comments

TTHE NEW CHAT PROGRAM

The Chat program is located on the bottom of your screen. Here you can choose it and it will pop up.This is a new style chat program for ning and i thought we would try it out.

Added by John Scargy on February 27, 2009 at 7:43pm — 2 Comments

Obama sets Aug. 2010 as Iraq end date

Officials: Obama sets Aug. 2010 as Iraq end date

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 51 mins ago

WASHINGTON – A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration… Continue

Added by John Paul on February 27, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Premillennialism and Politics Dont Mix

I like following Gary Demar's works and just read his recent article on his site americanvision.org. Gary shows in detail of how the dominant premill eschatological view has affected our worldview and efforts in the political arena and minimized our voice. For many, the overall problems have become so overwhelming and far reaching, the mindset has become to simply do nothing and remain silent since Jesus will come back to fix all. In defense of the Gospel in such trying times, I think it is… Continue

Added by phil212 on February 27, 2009 at 4:33am — 1 Comment

Reformers’ exegetical principle of sola scriptura owed much to humanism

The Protestant Reformers’ Readings of , with Modern Critical Response

Author: Galen Johnson

Although the Protestant Reformers’ exegetical principle of sola scriptura assumed that the meaning of scripture never changes, their approach to scripture in lectures and commentaries owed much to the innovative interpretive methods of humanism. According to the study of Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance humanism was primarily concerned with how ideas were obtained and… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 27, 2009 at 1:48am — No Comments

Why Doesn't Answers in Genesis Tell You the Truth?

Some days I just shake my head... See for yourself.

Why Doesn't Answers in Genesis Tell You the Truth?

Tim Martin
www.BeyondCreationScience.com

Added by Tim Martin on February 26, 2009 at 6:53pm — 13 Comments

Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments

Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments

Stanford researchers with collaborators at Tel-Aviv University have now laid the foundation for opening a window to the past using a technique called "reverse ecology." The technique uses genomic data to examine metabolic networks and pulls out proxies for reconstructing bacterial environments millions of years in the past. The… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 26, 2009 at 8:29am — No Comments

The Meeting in the Air

The Meeting in the Air - I Thessalonians 4:17

By Dr. Randall E. Otto

"The Meeting in the Air (1 Thess 4:17)," Horizons in Biblical Theology 19 (1997):192-212,

The Pauline assertion that those who are alive at the parousia will be caught up with the dead in Christ "to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thess 4:17) is a unique eschatological depiction. This is "the only place where a `rapture' of God's people is associated with the parousia." 1 That Paul should set forth this… Continue

Added by John Paul on February 26, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

Quodlibet Journal

Make sure you check out the RSS feed links i have for the Quodlibet Journal.They have some excellent articles.A few years ago they had some preterist articles by Randall Otto Ph.D.

Preterism and the Question of Heresy

Heresy is a serious charge, for if… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 25, 2009 at 8:29pm — No Comments

The Naked Absurdity of Young-Earth Futurism

I am still tinkering with this, but I thought I should share it here. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

http://www.beyondcreationscience.com/index.php?pr=Naked_Absurdity_of_Young_Earth_Futurism

Blessings

Tim Martin
www.BeyondCreationScience.com

Added by Tim Martin on February 25, 2009 at 5:43pm — 52 Comments

"The Preterist Stopper"!..LOL..Theses guys make it so easy for us!!!

This is the latest in hyper-futurist exegesis in refuting the fulfilled view being posted on one of the largest and most theological minded forums..LOL..Sorry i can't help it.

***The Preterist Stopper!***

Here is a verse that the preterists cannot get around:

--=>And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 25, 2009 at 10:01am — 3 Comments

Introducing BCS

At John's request, I am posting my response to Jason S on Theologica.

Jason,

Would you kindly give us a detailed explanation of why you and Timothy Martin wrote this book? What prompted you to write it? What particular person(s) inspired you to write?

What circumstances prompted you to write?

Did you find that you learned about your subject matter while you wrote, or did you have it all settled before writing?

Have you learned more since writing…

Continue

Added by JL Vaughn on February 24, 2009 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

BCS Discussion on Theologica

All,

A Baptist preacher has just started a discussion BCS on Theologica.ning

This will potentially reach over 1000 people who previously didn't know preterism existed.

Blessings.

Added by JL Vaughn on February 24, 2009 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

The Most Influential (and Self-Promotional) Christian Zionist You've Never Heard Of

Jimmy Carter-hating Mike Evans claims: "You can save American lives by helping me get on the major networks."

By Bill Berkowitz, IPS News. Posted February 24, 2009.

OAKLAND, California, Feb 22 (IPS) -- During a recent appearance on the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" program, Mike Evans accused… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 24, 2009 at 5:32pm — 1 Comment

The Olivet Discourse and some thoughts on the transition of Covenants by David Lee

(This is an old article and is a part of a larger work, but comments are appreciated.)

The Olivet Discourse and some thoughts on the transition of Covenants

1. Matt 24:1-2 records Jesus stating that the Temple, which was being admired by the disciples, was destined to be completely destroyed.

2. Matt 24:3 records the disciples of Jesus clearly associating the destruction of the temple as the end of the Mosaic age and an event that would reveal the presence (or… Continue

Added by David Lee on February 24, 2009 at 12:48pm — 13 Comments

Royal seal impressions from the First Temple period discovered south of Jerusalem

Source: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2-23-09)

Royal seal impressions were discovered in excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority at Umm Tuba, in the southern hills of Jerusalem.

A large building that dates to the time of the First and Second Temples, in which there was an… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 24, 2009 at 11:33am — No Comments

Premillennialism and Politics Don't Mix

by Dr Gary DeMar

What is so troubling about Christian involvement in politics? Christians like John MacArthur, Cal Thomas, and Ed Dobson have written on the subject. MacArthur’s Why Government Can’t Save You includes the following subtitle: An Alternative to Political Activism. While MacArthur does not “believe we should remove ourselves from the… Continue

Added by John Paul on February 24, 2009 at 10:52am — No Comments

Hymenaeus and Philetus

Hymenaeus and Philetus

For years futurist eschatologist have been saying Hymenaeus and Philetus were attempting to

overthrow the faith of the disciples in a "FUTURE PHYSICAL" resurrection . (2 Tim 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.)

However if you continue to read the whole context of what is being said all the way through 2 Tim chapter 2 and 3 up to chapter 4:1, you will see that… Continue

Added by Sandy on February 24, 2009 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

Conversation with my Partial Preterist Friend

I think this personal correspondence might prove to be helpful to other members here. I removed all the names to keep my friend anonymous.

I've known this individual for about 15 years. He was instrumental in shaping my theological formation as I cannot think of any one teacher from whom I learned more theology. He challenged me to go beyond the mild partial preterism of Ken Gentry that I held when I first met him. He also introduced me to Milton Terry. That means I am probably a… Continue

Added by Tim Martin on February 23, 2009 at 5:38pm — 4 Comments