| You scored as Amillenialist, Amillenialism believes that the 1000 year reign is not literal but figurative, and that Christ began to reign at his ascension. People take some prophetic scripture far too literally in your view. |
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Amillenialist |
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95% | |
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Preterist |
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75% | |
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Moltmannian Eschatology |
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50% | |
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Postmillenialist |
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50% | |
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Premillenialist |
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45% | |
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Left Behind |
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10% | |
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Dispensationalist |
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5% |
What’s your eschatology?
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Personally I prefer anitchiliast (which refers to believing in a non-literal millennium) because I’m not pure amillennial but have some post-millennialism in me. I have heard it called “optimistic amillennialism.” I’m curious to see how the authors of this blog would turn out on this quiz.
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I scored as a Amillenialist. I didn’t really understand some of the terminology/themes. I think the answer choices for future surveys should include an “I don’t know”.
I gotta get that Hank book!
Edgar.
As far as I can tell, the only difference between amillennialism and postmillennialism is pessimism vs. optimism as to whether things will be getting better or worse for the church as the eschaton approaches. What makes the difference between most postmills and most amills is that most postmills are also partially preterist and many are theonomists. But without those, the core of the two views is almost the same. So I’d suspect that you’re probably not amill but actually postmill, unless you can think of something you accept that postmills deny.
\Well I’m not sure I hold to the world being completely converted to the church and the world being ruled as a theocracy, like the theonomists. But I am partial preterist. The reason why I like to call my “millennial” eschatology “optimistic amillennialism” or antichiliasm is that post- and amil. are so close, especially in their exegesis of Revelation 20:1-6.
Here are some really good sites that explain the differences between all four major views: dispie., historic, post-, and amil (click here, here, here).
I turned up Amillenial although I don’t like a lot of the aspects of it that is what I most gravitate towards. I really am agnostic on eschatology having been a left behinder in my early years as a Christian.
Bob sounds like a pan-millennialist: it all pans out in the end.
You know, having read The Apocalypse Code I am so convinced that our understanding of the parousia influences our view of what we do today. Dispensational pre-millennialism is so gung-ho for Israel that they often ignore reaching out for Arabs and bringing them the gospel of Christ. Some Dispensationalists don’t even believe in Israel getting the land back by their adhering to the conditions that God set forth in the Mosaic Law that gave them the land.
Bob, I think we are most alike on our end-times views. I am so scared of running into my former dispensationalist and “left-behindist” views. It was actually reading the first book of that series that cracked that shell for me.