Conley's Blog

Recently a friend I'll write as D.W. asked me an eschatological question. This is the response I felt would be adequate. I hope it assists others as well. My friend asks how I would respond to full preterist when they try and use Matthew 10:23 and Matthew 26:64. Jesus told His Apostles in Matthew 10:23, “You will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.” How would you handle that passage of Scripture? From an honest perspective, Matthew 10:23 I would say can be interpreted a few ways. For example, one could say maybe that it is referring a bit about the destruction of Jerusalem to some extent. If it was then this would not contradict the Patristics as they all say that the destruction of Jerusalem was a type and prefiguring event of what is to come in the future when the Christ in His 2nd Coming comes in a visible, physical bodily event. Some thoughts though... If “before the Son of Man comes” meant that the Parousia is expected before the

Theologically speaking I do have a serious question for Don K Preston which is also a pastoral one as well. So far all that has been given is a non-answer and a call to call the question a "fabricated, nonsensical, and an illogical question" from Don K Preston. My response to that is that it really is not fabricated, nonsensical, or illogical just because Don Preston says so. My question is this. I am not one but hypothetically, if I were and apply CBV preterist theology to my life and hold to it is there anything wrong with taking one's own life? Preston fully believes that Christ divested Himself of His humanity in the Ascension. Therefore, during the Ascension Christ got rid of His physical body to be in Heaven. This is ultimately the goal is to be with Christ. So why not just get there quicker by divesting one's own self from their body and going to be with Christ instead? If one wishes to take one's life and I use Don K Preston's own theolog