What deflection? What personal item did I say? I asked you a question. What false teaching do I believe? I gave you very detailed answers. And then asked you a question that you didn’t answer. My guess is you and I agree on quite a few things just a small number of things that we may not, that really aren’t not the most important things.
If you believe people won’t go to heaven because there’s an infinite number of Bible scholars who disagree on end times eschatology. Then maybe just you’re going to heaven? These Bible scholars spend a lifetime on the subjects. And like I said, I find them interesting and useful to keep you aware that the end is coming, no matter what you feel. The end is or when you feel it might be.
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@Integrity Believe Doctrine is important, but it isn’t the most important thing.
No you didn't. You danced all around it.
So, if you see and recognize a passage in scripture that refutes a doctrine(teaching )no matter the subject, you believe, you will not change/admit your belief/conviction was wrong, because Bible Scholars spend lifetimes studying the Bible and you're going with them? The scripture was written for common people to understand and come to clear conclusions. Not division.
If Matthew 24:34 does not destroy your belief or at least make you begin to think the doctrine of premillennialism is wrong, then either there are 2000 year old people walking around or the Jesus came back and we missed it.( which will be impossible)
Everything before verse 34 in Matthew 24 is talking about the destruction of Jerusalem. You said:
"And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions?" -1 Kings 18:21
The story is certainly about what happened at the temple but also what is going to happen in the future and to be ready at All times because you do not know when. The whole meaning of that chapter is a history lesson and a warning.
Yes, be ready at all times. For the second coming. This is the teaching that begins in verse 36. Not in verse 3. Why? Because unlike the destruction of Jerusalem, there will be no warnings, no signs.
The signs and warnings that were to portend the fall of Jerusalem have universally been taken by premillennialists as being the identifying marks of the "end time." For some reason, eschatology holds a fatal fascination for those "scholars".
In every book that comes off the presses from the hand of a self-styled "prophecy expert" you will find numerous references to Matthew 24 that are wrong. Like you, they always fail to acknowledge the transition verse.
You say what difference does it make? One of a zillion different false teachings of the doctrine is that we all will get a second chance. Uh-Oh...When Jesus comes he will take vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thess. 1:8).
Peter says the physical universe will be torched when the Lord returns and Paul says Jesus will not set foot on the earth again. Judgement day will begin.
You can't have it both ways.