Cole Thornton

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@parousia70 @GretchenMafiosa @byroncarroll A list of passages highlighting why it can't be true is sufficient.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@parousia70 @GretchenMafiosa @byroncarroll If the case can't be made from a throughout investigation of Scripture the claim is questionable at best.

The hyper-preterist claim is on the same level as Jesus is not God.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rabbriansamuel But you don't speak Hebrew/Aramaic conversationally.

Logical fallacy.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@parousia70 @GretchenMafiosa @byroncarroll Acts 1:11
Revelation 1:7
Philippians 3:21
1 Corinthians 15:26
2 Timothy 2:17–18
Romans 8:19–23
2 Peter 3:10–13
Luke 24:39

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@GretchenMafiosa @parousia70 @byroncarroll On this the Church is 100% unified.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@parousia70 @GretchenMafiosa @byroncarroll The Church relies on Scripture to determine orthodoxy. It is our supreme, infallible authority.

The Church, speaking on behalf of Christ, declares truth and error.

Hyper-preterism is a foundationally erroneous system.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@GretchenMafiosa @byroncarroll None of it is biblical. That's why the Church views it as heresy.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rabbriansamuel "vile, demeaning rhetoric about the Jewish people,"

It's a matter of perspective.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@GretchenMafiosa @byroncarroll 1. The Second Coming is a Past Event
2. A Spiritualized, Non-Physical Resurrection
3. The End of the World Already Happened
4. Continuous, Present Eternity

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rootcausesleuth 4. "He does this to show his attributes and his glory to the ones he did choose to save."

Correction: This is partially true, but it omits half of the Reformed view of God's glory. According to the Canons of Dort, God does not display His attributes only to the elect.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rootcausesleuth You asked for corrections; where your statements were inadequate and needed improvement/correction.

I provided those.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rootcausesleuth You asked for corrections to your statement on Calvinism.

I provided those.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rootcausesleuth 2. Federal headship: When Adam sinned, his legal guilt and subsequent spiritual death were judicially imputed to his descendants. ...

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@GretchenMafiosa @byroncarroll These matters are not distinctives of hyper-preterism.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rootcausesleuth ... They are "unable" to choose God because they internally despise Him, not because an external force is blocking a sincere desire to be saved. Therefore, Calvinism views them as fully responsible because they are acting out their own free desires.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rootcausesleuth 3. "...even though they were born unable to do any differently..."

Calvinism teaches that the non-elect have total physical freedom to do exactly what they want to do. The problem is their want. Because their nature is corrupt, they only ever want to sin and reject God. ...

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@Exodus15_11 @FDellarosanera @dfziklag Folks might take you more seriously if you weren't in the business of making sweeping sociological claims without any substantiation.

Of course, it would also help if you gave up the dispensational theology.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@rootcausesleuth 1. God is not the author of sin. God created human nature perfectly good. Humanity corrupted itself through voluntary rebellion in the Fall. God decreed that the Fall would happen, but He did not infuse sin into the human heart.

[Cole Thornton @ColeThornton54]

@Be_Like_JChrist All men are born haters.

God sovereignly relieves some men of that fatal condition.