For Amillennialism, “the thousand-year reign” is brought about by the events of Christ’s first advent.
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Questions Asked at an Eschatology Conference: Part 2 | Sam Waldron
If you mean by rapture a pretribulational rapture, then we believe in no such thing. But the term rapture is derived from the Latin translation of the words, ‘caught up,’ in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Thus, since the Bible speaks of a rapture, the real question is, What does it mean by the rapture? It simply means the catching up of the living saints at Christ’s Second Coming.
Questions Asked at an Eschatology Conference: Part 1 | Sam Waldron
Recently, I spoke at a conference on the subject of my recent book by Free Grace Press, The Doctrine of Last Things: An Optimistic Amillennial View. Following up my lectures on the “Two Ages” (See my book, chapters 3-5.), there was a Q&A in which I answered questions submitted in writing before the Q&A.
1689 9:1-5 Common Objections to Free Will | Sam Waldron
Chapter 9 of the Confession teaches the important biblical doctrine of the total inability of fallen man to do anything spiritually good. Still, this teaching has been widely denied. In this blog, I want to address those objections.
1689 9:3 Free Will Defined and Defended | Sam Waldron
Though the Confession affirms free will, it affirms the kind of free will that is compatible with the idea that this free will is incapable of any spiritual good.
1689 9:1-5 Free Will Qualified | Sam Waldron
Free will is not a faculty for making random decisions. Such a view actually destroys any meaningful free will.
1689 9:1 Of Free Will | Sam Waldron
Against some “Calvinists” (both contemporary and in the past), we must affirm the free will of man. But we must, while affirming it, also carefully and biblically define it.
1689 8:5 Propitiation | Sam Waldron
Propitiation is the focus of the atonement.
1689 8:5 The Nature of the Atonement | Sam Waldron
The description of Christ’s atoning work as obedience is a powerful argument for the necessity of double imputation and the active obedience of Christ in a day in which both are widely denied.
1689 8:4-10 The Necessity of the Atonement | Sam Waldron
If God is almighty and wanted to save, could He not simply save men without an atonement? This was debated by the Medieval Christian theologians, with Anselm defending the necessity of the atonement and Duns Scotus and Abelard questioning or denying it.