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To: Berry Picker who wrote (38459)	9/20/2004 2:06:32 AM
From: alan w	Respond to of 39621

Thanks Brian. You are correct that I don't fully understand preterism. My view of Christ handing over a perfected kingdom to the Father has to mean exactly that. As long as sin and death still dominate men, then Christ hasn't finished His work. Sin and death are both temporary. And even though Christ defeated death at the cross, He hasn't yet abolished it. He hasn't repudiated sin yet either. The word for repudiate is un-place. Sin can't exist when the isn't a place for it. I don't think "eternity" will be a physical place. We will be spiritually with God. My beliefs concerning "the ages" are taken directly from scripture. It plainly says that there was a time "before the ages"(so the ages had a beginning), there have been ages in the past(hence there are more than one or 2 ages. We are living in a current age, there will be at least one more age to come and scripture says all of the ages will come to an end. I can't understand your statement that they have been handed to me and are "suited to a view". My "view" of God came after 44 years of mainstream christian teachings. Why did we take a certain scripture and believe it just as it was written and have to "explain" that others didn't mean what they said. This always bothered me. Why did scripture say that God would wipe away all tears and that death would be destroyed and then others say that some men were destined for eternal damnation. Why did men make up certain phrases such as "death actually means eternal separation from God". Why did scripture claim men actually died (as in ceased living) and man claim that when we die we actually just start living somewhere else. (Heaven or hell) Why did scripture say that the ration of sin is death (slaves aren't payed wages) and men claim that the wages of sin is eternal life in tormenting flames. Why did scripture claim that Christ takes away the sin of the world and men claim He didn't. Why did scripture claim that "it's nothing men do, lest any man should boast" and christianity say, "you'd better do something today for tomorrow might be too late". I could go on with many others, but you get the picture. I am now free to believe all of scripture. Thanks Brian, and have a good week. Alan