(November 21, 2019 at 12:06 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: That's amazing, that's what they teach in formal theological training? In comparative and sociological studies it's asserted that "prophecy"..likely...-only- makes proper sense to it's contemporaneous consumer, as a sort of op ed on current events told explicitly from within the then-present (and predominant) mythological or societal construct.
Or, at least, that construct which the author wishes were the predominant one.
Understand, I'm not talking Princeton Theological Cemetery or something. It was Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music, now defunct. Conceptually a peer of, e.g., Moody Bible Institute. And this was the view of one professor that really stuck with me because it was so obviously self-ratifying nonsense. Yeah, it was that kind of thing that planted the first seeds of doubt for me.
We were basically partial preterists, and regarded most prophecy as already fulfilled, and some (mostly Revelations) as yet to be fulfilled, which was a handy way of handling the incoherence of that book -- it's not supposed to make sense and we're somewhat guessing at its fulfillment. But it will be a powerful testament to God's foreknowledge to people who go through the Great Tribulation, etc.
Yes, I actually paid for this information ...
