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Encyclopedia Brittanica, a secular source: Brittanica: eschatology - The early church The early church During the first 100 years of Christian history, the church taught some form of millenarianism, or chiliasm (from the Greek word for “1,000”), the belief that the Parousiawould bring...

I have many scholarly sources that say the exact opposite, including secular sources with no doctrinal bones to pick, such as the encyclopedia Brittanica. The following is 1/5 of a copyright article, with the link following: The Early Church Fathers were almost exclusively premillennialists...

That’s absolutely false. The early church was solidly premil for 300 years.

Peter asked to be crucified upside down. Catholics think the pope sits in peters chair due to apostolic succession, thus to honor Peter, the Pope’s chair has an upside down cross on it.

The father never was born as a man with Mary’s fallen flesh chromosomes in his body, causing a real temptation to occur. If Jesus couldn’t have sinned, then He wasn’t tempted to sin. You can’t tempt someone who hates cherries to eat a cherry pie when on a diet, because that’s not something...

Jesus wears crowns on His head, He must be a system and not a person too.

Common sense and the Bible says that horns and crowns represent what the being wearing them is in control of and the power that they have. There are so clearly two persons that are called beasts in Revelation, and like Satan, the first beas that comes out of the sea of humanity, controls...

Other than historians.

No, Romans didn’t make people carry the very heavy vertical beam of the cross. You can deny both scripture and historical facts that we know about Roman execution methods, but we won’t Ever hear of cognitive dissonance?

Jesus was either tempted, or that is a lie that says He was. Jesus was absolutely tempted to sin on His mother’s side, but overcame temptation and remained sinless on His father’s side James 1:13 is true, in that the Father is not tempted to sin, but then the Father didn’t become flesh with a...

I am not a Catholic, but when they make the sign of the cross, they say, in the name of the father, son, and Holy Spirit as they do it, so they are acknowledging the trinity that so many cults deny exists.

Simple. Is Satan a fallen archangel or is Satan a political or military system? After all he has multiple heads, horns, and crowns, so he can’t possibly be a being, using your same logic about the beast: Revelation 12:3 (KJV) 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a...

Exactly. The locusts are clearly demons. We won’t be able to see them, anymore than we see the demons around us now - but their effects will be felt, and will probably be plagues and disease - just as the demons Jesus cast out that caused sickness.

The prophet Elijah - you claimed they asked him if he was Jesus. Which is still irrelevant ton the fact there are two beasts that are two men, one of whom is possessed by Satan mid trib.

The first beast is a man, not a system. He runs a system, he is not the system. He arises out of the sea, which represents the sea of humanity. All the indications in Revelation 13 are that the beast is a man, a human individual, though he is closely identified with his world-dominating...

Try reading the text. They asked John if he was the prophet Elijah. Moses is a type of Christ, which doesn’t change the fact that the false prophet is not the beast called the antichrist. There are two beasts, to answer your prior claim - the first beast comes from the sea, the second beast...

The First Beast Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. There’s only one great tribulation, and it’s 42 months long - whether it says they...

I know that the mark is given for 42 months, 3.5 years, which is what makes that time period the great tribulation, and thus anyone seen by John in heaven who came out of the great tribulation are martyrs who had their heads cut off for refusing the mark. Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they...

It’s a well known fact that except for Matthew, which may have been in Aramaic originally, the NT was written in koine Greek - because that was the universal language and business language of that day - just as English is today. Greek was in fact so pervasive, that the Jews translated the...

The antichrist is a man who is possessed by Satan at the mid trib point. A prophet is a messenger for God, thus by definition a false prophet is a messenger for a false God. The antichrist steps into the temple and claims to be God, and the false prophet commands worship of that false God...