Some say I speak in parables. The reality is far more complex. Within these walls you may find musings on philosophy, theology, politics, and Christian apologetics (without parables -- I'm a much more competent straight-talker than storyteller).
My second cousin Danny Pierce has put together some of his reasons for being a premillenialist. I'm an amillenialist, but I'm open to a premillenialism like the kind he advocates.
I found in seminary that most amillennialists won't argue too much against my view. I think that dispensationalists have essentially commandeered the title "premillennialists" in the minds of most people, which is rather unfortunate. It's funny, though, as I was teaching through Revelation a few weeks back, I inadvertently convinced one girl of the amill position. Oops.
On a related note, we need to get an official ruling on millennial spelling. I always spelled it the way you do in this post, "millenial" with one "n." I always thought this was the proper spelling. Then Beale goes and spells it with two "n"'s in his commentary. I suppose this is an argument for a Protestant magesterium.
Well, a onelook.com search turns up only one dictionary entry for the one-n spelling, and it's from 1828. So perhaps that's just an archaic spelling. For some reason it's the one I naturally came up with even after looking at your post. With just 'millennial', the one-n spelling doesn't look right at all. Weird.
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This page contains a single entry by Jeremy Pierce published on May 22, 2007 9:43 AM.
I found in seminary that most amillennialists won't argue too much against my view. I think that dispensationalists have essentially commandeered the title "premillennialists" in the minds of most people, which is rather unfortunate. It's funny, though, as I was teaching through Revelation a few weeks back, I inadvertently convinced one girl of the amill position. Oops.
On a related note, we need to get an official ruling on millennial spelling. I always spelled it the way you do in this post, "millenial" with one "n." I always thought this was the proper spelling. Then Beale goes and spells it with two "n"'s in his commentary. I suppose this is an argument for a Protestant magesterium.
Well, a onelook.com search turns up only one dictionary entry for the one-n spelling, and it's from 1828. So perhaps that's just an archaic spelling. For some reason it's the one I naturally came up with even after looking at your post. With just 'millennial', the one-n spelling doesn't look right at all. Weird.