Thomas Ice
Autor de The Truth Behind Left Behind: A Biblical View of the End Times
Sobre El Autor
Thomas Ice serves as Executive Director of the Pre-Trib Research Center, which he founded in 1994 with Dr. Tim LaHaye to research, teach, and defend the pretribulational rapture and related Bible prophecy doctrines. Ice has authored and co-authored over 30 books, written hundreds of articles, and mostrar más is a frequent conference speaker. He has served as a pastor for 17 years. Dr. Ice has a B.A. from Howard Payne University, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Tyndale Theological Seminary, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Wales. mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Thomas Ice
Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? An Analysis of Christian Reconstructionism (1988) — Autor — 78 copias
When the Trumpet Sounds: Today's Foremost Authorities Speak Out on End-Time Controversy (1995) — Editor — 60 copias
Prêts à rebâtir : Les plans pour la construction imminente du Temple des derniers jours (1995) 1 copia
Biblical Perspectives 1 copia
Israel's Legal Right to Its Land 1 copia
The Great Tribulation: Past or Future? | DVD — Debater — 1 copia
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- Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
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- Howard Payne University (BA|1975)
Dallas Theological Seminary (ThM|1981)
Tyndale Theological Seminary (PhD|1995) - Ocupaciones
- professor of Religion
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- Liberty University
Pre-Trib Research Center (Executive Director)
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While there is a manner in which these prophetic passages were fulfilled in past historical events and are being fulfilled spiritually or mystically in the ascetic struggle of believers and the purifying, illuminating, and deifying grace of the Holy Spirit at work in the spiritual development of the saints, there is also a manner in which these passages are yet to be fulfilled in the manifestation of the children of God in the future glory. The Church anticipates the Second Coming of Christ in glory to judge the living and the dead and the full manifestation of His Kingdom in a New Heavens and and a New Earth free of death, corruption, and sin.
So, there is a manner in which the Orthodox Christian can agree with the partial preterist Gary DeMar. We can also affirm a future fulfillment of the prophecies regarding the Second Coming of Christ as set forth by Dr. Tommy Ice and the full embrace by the Jewish people as a whole of their Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ, when they say, "Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord." On this future facet of interpretation, John Chrysostom interprets the "this generation," debated by DeMar and Ice, as also referring to the race of Christians.
In the Orthodox view, the more pressing interpretation of these passages, the spiritual or mystical understanding as set forth by our Holy Fathers, is the level of revelation largely missed by these Protestant debaters. The spiritual interpretation has import for the present time, each current moment in which we now live our lives. This spiritual understanding encourages us in our own personal, spiritual struggle and motivates us to continue on in our prayer, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." The Orthodox Church, while not denying the past fulfillment of these prophecies and also their future implications, nevertheless, prefers to emphasize the importance of the present spiritual fulfillment of these things in our personal lives, in our parish, and in the Church at large. Why does the Church prefer this spiritual emphasis? Because the Church emphasizes the working out of our own salvation with fear and trembling and our cooperation with Divine Grace through prayer, fasting, and charitable acts in preparation for the Coming of God to the soul through participation in the Divine Mysteries in the Holy Services of the Church.
Another important feature of this video-recorded debate is the attack on Dispensationalism by Gary DeMar. In attacking Dispensationalism, DeMar is not attacking the hope of Dispensationalists in a future Second Coming of Christ in a glory manifest universally, but rather the artifical timelines which Dispensationalists have imposed on the unfolding of history through faulty or questionable interpretations of Scripture, which they espouse as being unquestionable. We would do well to remember that modern Dispensationalism, with its so-called "pre-Tribulational rapture of believers," is foreign to Orthodox Christian teaching. The placement of a rapture as "pre-Tribulational" is the feature of this form of Dispensationalism seen as most problematic by Orthodox Christians. Also the idea of a future restored Jewish Temple to be fully operative with a revival of animal sacrifices under the reign of Christ during a future 1,000-year reign on the earth, which they call "The Millenium" is inconsistent with Orthodox Christian Faith. Gary DeMar, though a Calvinist, is. nevertheless, a step closer to Orthodox Christianity in his eschatology, or view of last things. His rebuttal of Thomas ice leaves the Orthodox Christian desirous of a full demolishment of the falsities of Dispensationalism.
When all is said and done, the Orthodox Christian, in company with the Holy Fathers, will recognize the validity of various facets of Scriptural interpretation, including a past, historical understanding, a current spiritual understanding and application, a future, prophetic culmination, and, perhaps, a moral, analogical derivation. Whatever these interpretations may be, we can be certain that, if they are guided by the Spirit of Truth, they will not conflict with one another in their import and they will be consistent with the beliefs and practices of Holy Orthodoxy. The spiritual understanding will parallel the past, historical understanding. The future, prophetic culmination will be prefigured in the historical interpretations already past. The moral principles derived by analogy will support the application of the spiritual understanding.
Having considered these two different perspectives, let us return quickly to the task at hand and continue on in our current striving to enter the narrow gate that leads to Life, to open our hearts to a greater receptivity to the Coming of Divine Grace at the Present Time.… (más)