Assmillennialism

I remember in college and soon thereafter being so embarrassed by the invective and casual arrogance I felt was displayed by many post-millennialists.  To this day I avoid recommending some books that have great content because I can’t stand the prefaces attached or some other part of the content that will understandably offend readers by seeming (or being!) arrogant.

Apparently, what I found most repulsive was considered the one virtue to be replicated by [some!] amillennialists.  Amil triumphalism is as ugly as the postmil kind.

A much lesser offense was committed by the postmil writers who simply appealed to the American Presbyterian tradition as if everyone should know that people like Hodge, Warfield, Dabney, etc, could never be wrong.  While this was bothersome, since Biblical argumentation should be the emphasis on persuading anyone of a position, it is just as bothersome to see [some!] current Amils pretending that all postmils are deviants from some imagined “orthodoxy” and never admitting the truth of Reformed history.  Again, the arrogance of postmils is replicated by amils as strategy.

5 thoughts on “Assmillennialism

  1. AJ

    Hilarious. In fairnness, I’d make a distinction between the WTS Cali school of amil and the RTS Orlando school. I’m not down with the latter; but Frame, Pratt, and Kidd are awesome.

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  2. mark Post author

    Todd, yes, you’re right. But I’m much farther away from anyone influenced by such thinking…. at the moment anyway.

    To be clear AJ, I wasn’t talking about amillialism or -ists in general, but unnamed groups within. But I’m adding an edit to make sure I don’t get misunderstood.

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