what is premillennialism?
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Many places in the Bible talk about Jesus Christ ruling on this earth.  All the "millenialsim" theories describe different ways that will look, and whether Jesus will return to earth before or after His reign.\n\nPre-millienialism is the belief that Jesus Will come back to this earth and set up a kingdom for 1000 years.  At the end of the millenium, Satan will rebel against Jesus one last time and be defeated forever.  \n\nThe other theories are:\n\nAmillenialsim which says that Jesus is ruling in some form now, but there will not be an actual millenium or 1000-year-long reign.\n\nand\n\nPost-millenialism which says that the world will get better and better, Jesus will reign for 1000 years of that time, and He will come back to defeat Satan at the end of the millenium.
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Huh, who says yahoo answers is not constructive.  You learn something new everyday...Ignosticism is the view that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because it has no verifiable (or testable) consequences and should therefore be ignored.  I must say that yes, on some days I am indeed ignostic.
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Hi Jenn\n\nPeople that were living before Christ came were promised heaven based on their faith, or belief that He would come.  People living after He came are promised heaven based on their faith that He has come.
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God is that which IS.\n\nThe "I AM".\n\nFREE WILL gives you the opportunity to choose what you believe here.....\nGod is God no matter what you choose.\n\nTIME is an illusion of a conditional world. \n \nTherefore, outside of the conditional reality there is no "before", "during" or "after" anything.
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Revivalism is a predominantly North American Protestant phenomenon in which itinerant preachers exhort their hearers to accept forgiveness of personal sin through faith in Jesus Christ and to commit themselves to spiritual self discipline and religious exercises such as prayer, Bible reading, and church support.\nA movement within the Christian tradition which emphasizes the appeal of religion to the emotional and affectional nature of individuals as well as to their intellectual and rational nature. It believes that vital Christianity begins with a response of the whole being to the gospel's call for repentance and spiritual rebirth by faith in Jesus Christ. This experience results in a personal relationship with God.\n\nSome have sought to make revivalism a purely American and even a predominantly frontier phenomenon. Revivalism, however, can be seen as a much broader Christian tradition. Recent studies have discovered a revivalist tradition in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Read Dante's Inferno to learn about it.  It is basically where people who have not been baptized, but have not sinned enough to merit damnation to the lower levels of hell go.  They have "natural" happiness, but are forever kept from seeing God.  The Catholic Church used to talk a lot about it, but does not talk so much about it today.  The concept has not yet been altered or abolished, but things seem to be going in that direction.  The newer concept is that good people who are not baptized, but who would have been had they known about the necessity of Baptism, might be allowed into heaven by God's grace without Baptism.
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God calls premarital sex a form of "Pornea".  Pornea is the Greek word for pornographic.  A lot of differant things fall under the catagory, Biblically such as homosexuality, pictures and prostitution, not to mention premarital sex.  Sex is to be enjoyed by men and women that are married to each other, not to be taken advantage of by unmarried people.
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Thank you for asking this question. Very good point. I am a Pagan, and Paganism pre-dates Chrisitianity and our festivals did come first. Any book will confirm this!
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The following is cut and pasted from the source listed at the bottom:\n\nEvangelical Christian and Counter-Cult Movement  usage: Any religious group which accepts most but not all of the historical Christian doctrines (the divinity of Jesus, virgin birth, the Trinity, salvation, etc.). The implication is that the cult's theology is invalid; they teach heresy. Under this definition, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), Unification Church and Jehovah's Witnesses to be cults. But they would not classify Wicca as such, because it is not associated with Christianity. The earliest use of this meaning of the word "Cult" is believed to be a 1938 book "The Chaos of the Cults" by  J.K. VanBaalen. On the other hand, new religious groups such as the Mormons, Unification Church and Jehovah's Witnesses generally regard themselves to be the true Christian church. They view all other denominations as being in error. Thus, one groups true church is another group's cult.\n\nFundamentalist Christian usage: Some Fundamentalists would accept the Evangelical definition of cult defined above. Others might brand any religious group which deviates from historical Protestant Christian beliefs as a cult. This definition would include the Mormon Church, Wicca, mainline and liberal Christian denominations, Islam, Hinduism, and all of the other religions of the world. Over 70% of humanity would belong to cults, by this definition.
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The New Age is a very eclective group of thoughts and ideas that change with the passing tides of time and place.  It had its beginnings in the earth 20th century and many gurus have come and gone in their time of new age thought.  It includes the metaphysical thought of psychic, mediumship, spirit, reincarnation, etc. and has also come and gone on the common beliefs in these areas as well.  (There are other groups who have more consistent information on these topics).
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There is no scientific meaning of the term, as it is complete nonsense made up by a complete quack, Father Jerome. It is another nonsensical part of his increasingly nonsensical crackpot ideas. It is in no way science.
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I'm a Christian, who sees many errors in the bible. the don't shake my faith at all. That's because my faith isn't blind faith. First, your conversations with fundamentalists are probably being confused, by the ambiguous term, 'literal truth'. Thomas Jefferson wrote a bible, that ignored all the errors you speak of. It was a short read.\n     I try to get dogmatic Christians, to tell me what scriptures they take to be factual, or allegorical first, and then point out the error, after they have committed themselves.\n     A good example, is the creation of day and night, several days before the sun, and the moon. If a Christian, with blind faith believes that the day and night, of the first day of creation is to be taken factually, then they have a much harder time arguing that it is some other form of daylight, or spiritual light, etc., when you point out that the sun was created later.\n     If the mechanism that you refer to kicks in at that point, you might have one angry Christian, who thinks of you as the serpent in their garden. Or, you will have a chance to explore the allegorical lesson presented.\n     The lesson to be learned in this example, is that ancient thinkers, believed that the human eye was the source of light, and that light particle went from the eye to the object, and then to the sun, illuminating the sun in the day. To them, daylight had nothing to do with light from the sun. That was the reasoning behind the rejection of the sun (helios) as a god worth worshipping, because, who needs a sun, during the day. People need light, when it's dark, so the moon would be a better god to worship.\n     Also, the sun and the moon created to rule the day and the night. If that's the case, is the story telling us to worship them? What exactly do they rule? This is very much a pagan concept, and will propably result in the willful ignorance that you refered to, as fundamentalists are forbidden to even think of, much less discuss this concept.\n     The only practical reason for speaking this way to dogmatic Christians, is to identify them, and deter further fruitless conversations.
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As one opens a New Testament, he or she cannot get past the first page without confronting the doctrine of the virgin birth. The writer Matthew says: "When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 1:18). Joseph, perplexed over the fact that his wife-to-be was pregnant, was given this explanation by an angel in a dream: "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 1:20).\n\nAnother Gospel writer tells of Mary's pregnancy from her perspective. He tells how the angel Gabriel appeared to her to help prepare this young girl for the great event which would occur in her life. He told her, "And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus" (Luke 1:31). Startled at such a thing, for she was a virgin, the angel continued: "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God " (Luke 1:35).\n\nAll four of the Gospels assume the doctrine of the virgin birth; two of them give de- tails about it. And it is all the more amazing that one of these writers (i.e., Luke) is a physician whose training and experience would incline him to deny the possibility of such a birth. Careful historian that we know Luke to have been, he investigated thoroughly and affirmed without hesitation that Jesus of Nazareth was born of a virgin.\n\nSome seven hundred or more years before the birth of Jesus, the Holy Spirit had moved the prophet Isaiah to foretell the miraculous birth of the Messiah. "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). Skeptics have tried to eliminate the phenomenon of predictive prophecy from the Bible, but this and many other divinely revealed predictions - all of which came to pass - make their efforts futile.\n\nIsaiah predicted the virgin birth, New Testament writers recorded its occurrence, and it stands as a sign from God as to the identity of Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of God and Savior of the world.
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1. Baptist are those protestant Christians who are characterized by a belief in believers baptism by emersion.\n2, fundamentalist believe that the bible is the inerrant exact word for word literal word of god without any mixture of error \n3. Independent means they are not members of either the Southern or Northern associations. They do have their own association.
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Sompe people who check this category have extensive knowledge of it, or can find it online, but you should be more specific. Is there anything in particular that interests you?\nEnlightment was a period where new ideas affected areas as diverse as literature and clothing. Do you need the socio-economic aspects? The political climate? The attitude to marriage? Sorry, that topic is too broad.
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It's the strict interpretation of a certain religion.  If someone is a religious fundamentalist then they take their religion literally and do not allow for interpretation.
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The dictionary defines establishmentarism as being in support of the establishment (usally referring to the established church); therefore, disestablishmentarism is being against the establishment; therefore, antidisestablishmentarism is being against those that are against the establishment. \nQED \nA kind of double negative, which is probably why it's looked down upon by the estlablished dictionaries - but then they're just a bunch of disestablishmentarists! And we at David's World of the Useless are very anti that sort of thing.