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Originally Posted by ajrock2000  I think its a good thing to not interact with writings of any men. Just the Word of God. What I find mostly about pretorists is that they (shamefully) start quoting Josephus and other sources outside the Bible, which I will not regard as truth to interpret prophecy. The Bible will interpret itself. |
Well, with all due respect, if you are going to critique a position you should be able to articulate that position without creating a strawman, such as the author has done. He seems to either be unfamiliar with or deliberately avoided many of the argument for the preterism view wrt the phrase “this generation”.
I must be missing something. How is it “shameful” to quote Josephus to document what happened in AD70, but not “shameful” to declare the Pope to be the “antichrist” based on historical documents?
Do you think the Pope==antichrist view is based entirely on the Bible alone?
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Originally Posted by ajrock2000 How do you come up with this? I see nothing after reading the passage that would conclude that it had to do with the Jews that that time. |
Well, perhaps you are missing something. If you overly spiritualize the text and begin with the presupposition that “generation” means something other than a normal human generation, then you will obviously miss something.