A bit more about "parousia"

I can easily admit that yes, I made mistakes.

If you think human mistakes nullify a person's position, then I feel sorry for you. You must then think that your position is correct because you make no mistakes.

 

There is no point in pursuing this further. It is clear that my responses are not even registering with you. I suppose you will stick with your special agenda-driven definition of "hope" in the second of those three usages.

Your last questions are so jejune that I am at a loss to even answer them. Clearly you weren't paying attention or you wouldn't even ask them.

 

Yes, but that was a major mistake you made. And you abused the point to bash pretetism. Are you sure you know your way around the Greek?

 

There is a reason why I wrote what I did. It has to do with a comment of his earlier. Oh, well.

I am not surprised that John gets free pass here. Has he ever written anything you disagree with?

He has made blunders in his Greek, especially when it seemed to offer a means of criticizing preterism. Just because a man has a professorial avatar does not oblige me to accept him as an authority.

 

During the Millennium?

 

I believe in a last day judgment "2nd coming" (until Im convinced otherwise), I don't see much difference there.

You want to know what I did in my past?

I drank and did Drugs

And now Im on here born again talking with other christians. And that was before I was "amil".

I respect what you did and do, And Im sorry if the lack of anything I accomplished causes you to look down on me.

 

Remember, even though you are not convincing him, you are helping other people with your responses.

 

I would enjoy that.

 

Good. Neither am I.

 

No, a disagreement between you and John.

You both are very intelligent men, It would be interesting.

 

Well Im glad you are not threatened by it. That would be a sad life to be threatened by everyone that disagrees with you.

I don't know anyone that agrees with me 100%.

 

We're still not getting anywhere. There are those who say Jesus' parousia has already occurred, I am among those who say it hasn't.

Those who say it HAS have the burden of proof. I stand on the fact that the world is the same as it was in 65 AD except for modern inventions. Basic lifestyle is still the same.

Scripture describes many changes to the world accompanying Jesus' return, & it's obvious these changes have not occurred. man still governs man, & satan is still at large. Again, the "past parousiasts" have the burden of proof!

 

It's Scrooge (3 years ago), and I got saved in the play.

 

I have my own set of sins in my past. No Christian should ever look down on anyone. We are all saved by the blood of Christ, and none of us are worthy of that.