James P. Boyce’s response to premillennialism

James P. Boyce, the first president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, rejected the teaching that there will be a one-thousand-year period between the second coming of Christ and the final judgment. In his Abstract of Systematic Theology, he writes: There is, however, one passage of Scripture which some claim teaches one resurrection of the [...]

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Mark Dever on creating divisions over eschatology

Even as a dispensational premillennialist, I taught that one’s view of the end times should not separate Christians. To the chagrin of many dispensational premillennialists, historic premillennialists, postmillennialists, and amillennialists, I do not see the Scriptures presenting a particular millennial view with the precise clarity that many folks dogmatically declare. That said, a pastor cannot [...]

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Kim Riddlebarger’s response to John MacArthur

During the 2007 Shepherds Conference at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, John MacArthur delivered a lecture entitled “Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist Should Be a Premillennialist.” It created quite a stir among Reformed pastors and theologians. I remember reading Tom Ascol’s “Founders Ministries Blog” and the dust-up MacArthur’s lecture created in the comments there. Probably [...]

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