Personal symbolizing of scripture according to our own personal faith, leapfrogs any credibility of teaching the true doctrine of Christ. And that especially includes the millennial reign of Christ.
It also ruins the validity of the Bible, as being no different from any other book of men about myths, legends, parables, and anecdotal tales, such as that of Aesop.
Such personal symbolizing of Scripture is used by unbelievers, who want to acknowledge wisdom in the Bible, but also do away with the flood over all the earth, the crossing of the Red Sea on dry ground, the sun standing still at the word of Joshua, or even the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And some believers use it to do away with the torment of hell, while trying to teach hell's symbolic 'significance'.
This in no way suggest, that those rejecting a millennial reign of Christ on earth after His return, as spiritual symbolism only, are also rejecting His resurrection, and the torment of hell and the lake of fire.
However, it is plain that such personal symbolizing of Scripture can certainly be ruinous to sound dcotrine of Christ.
Once we presume by personal faith alone, to 'discern' what Scripture is real or not, then we are only believing and teaching our own faith alone.
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
We are free to think whatever we want about Scripture, and decide for ourselves what is symbol and parable only, but once we begin to teach that as the truth of scripture, without any objective proof from Scripture itself, or common understanding, then we become false teachers of our own private interpretation of Scripture, as being true Scripture of God itself.
It also ruins the validity of the Bible, as being no different from any other book of men about myths, legends, parables, and anecdotal tales, such as that of Aesop.
Such personal symbolizing of Scripture is used by unbelievers, who want to acknowledge wisdom in the Bible, but also do away with the flood over all the earth, the crossing of the Red Sea on dry ground, the sun standing still at the word of Joshua, or even the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And some believers use it to do away with the torment of hell, while trying to teach hell's symbolic 'significance'.
This in no way suggest, that those rejecting a millennial reign of Christ on earth after His return, as spiritual symbolism only, are also rejecting His resurrection, and the torment of hell and the lake of fire.
However, it is plain that such personal symbolizing of Scripture can certainly be ruinous to sound dcotrine of Christ.
Once we presume by personal faith alone, to 'discern' what Scripture is real or not, then we are only believing and teaching our own faith alone.
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
We are free to think whatever we want about Scripture, and decide for ourselves what is symbol and parable only, but once we begin to teach that as the truth of scripture, without any objective proof from Scripture itself, or common understanding, then we become false teachers of our own private interpretation of Scripture, as being true Scripture of God itself.