The Wandering Heretic

Warning: Don’t use this series of posts on the Millennium and Preterism as ammunition against the Preterist (or “Full Preterist”) eschatology. As I noted previously, Rev. 20:1-10 presents problems in almost every theology. We even define the main eschatological theories by these chapters (Pre-Millennial, A-Millennial, and Post-Millennial). Only Preterism does not have “Millennial” in its [...]

Last Lectures are the in thing right now. A book entitled The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch was a runaway hit on Amazon. At my old college, some brave professors participated in a program called “The Last Lecture Series.” In this series, they were to give a lecture to those attending as if it were [...]

I started my discussion of the dating of the Books of John here. In that post, I gave some pretty strong evidence that major portions, if not all, of the Revelation was written prior to A.D. 70; that is, prior to the destruction of the second Temple by the Romans. My next project may not [...]

Awhile back I made (and to some extent proved) that the earliest New Testament document written was the Epistle of James, one of the sons of Zebedee (Mat. 4:21). Somewhat ironically, I am now going to make the assertion that the last book of the New Testament was written by his brother, John. However, after [...]

To continue my series on baptism, I am going to expand on our citizenship as part of Jesus. Scripture does make Jesus a symbol for the Land promised by God to His people; or the reverse, to be more accurate. However, the symbol does not stop there. Our citizenship in “Jesusland” is not only present, [...]

Alwyn Lau has used QuizFarm to create a Divine Foreknowlege quiz. I took the quiz, expecting to be found a Calvinist of some sort. Instead, I came up as a Molinist. So just like the Eschatology Quiz I took, I have been labeled something I have never heard of before. The detailed results are shown [...]

I took the Eschatology Quiz here. The results are below. You scored as Preterist, You take the historical setting of the Bible very seriously, and believe that passages like Daniel 7 and Mark 13 were speaking about their own day rather than the End of Time, though there will still be a time when Jesus [...]

In my posts in this series, I have made the rather controversial point that baptism should only be done for entire families and at the time of conversion of the head of that family. Subsequently born children do not need to be baptized, either as infants or adults. To accord with this pattern—the only one [...]

I recognize that the origin of Labor Day in the United States has more to do with the legitimization of the Labor Unions and not the value of labor in general. However, the two are not unrelated. At the time of the unions, the vast majority of the public was made up of “blue collar” [...]

In my last post discussed the theology of "the progressive Lordship of Christ."  Instead of a theology where Christ becomes Lord over more and more of your life (and therefore the world) I preferred a doctrine of the present and fixed Lordship of Christ.  In that post I noted that Jesus is fully Lord now, [...]