Jürgen Moltmann on the End Times and Dispensationalism

Short exchange between Jürgen Moltmann and Tony Jones at the Emergent Village Theological Conversation in 2009

[@paulpaulsen7245]

The best is still to come... HOW TRUE... THERE IS NO END BEFORE US BUT A NEW BEGINNING... What a comfort... what a comfort... In Pauls words: ἡ γὰρ ἀποκαραδοκία τῆς κτίσεως τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν τῶν υἱῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀπεκδέχεται. τῇ γὰρ ματαιότητι ἡ κτίσις ὑπετάγη, οὐχ ἑκοῦσα, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὑποτάξαντα, ἐπ’ ἑλπίδι· ὅτι καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ κτίσις ἐλευθερωθήσεται ἀπὸ τῆς δουλείας τῆς φθορᾶς εἰς τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τῆς δόξης τῶν τέκνων τοῦ Θεοῦ (Rom 8:19-21)... Greetings from Germany

[@rfly05]

This reminds me that Revelation, Apocalypses, is an unveiling, where more and more will be revealed.

[@Eric_Blair]

The fundamentalist belief of dispensations can be refuted Biblically. Pivotal is the belief by the dispensationalists that Christ's prophesies of Matt. 24 would happen to generations of the future though He clearly said these events would happen to "this generation", that is the generation to which He was speaking. But if one believes that Gen. 1, Revelation (the Apocalypse) and all the Gospels and the prophets are to be interpreted literally, as the fundamentalists do, it is difficult to find the true meaning of ancient metaphor and allegory. Moltmann expresses a more hopeful and I believe the correct Biblical eschatology. But we live in the modern age of nihilism, death of God, so not many are very interested in these difference in Christian beliefs (thank you Frankfurt School - Institut für Sozialforschung).

[@richierich7644]

Is he partial preterist postmil trying to figure it out

[@racheladkins6060]

I’m sick of American Christian’s and religious Puritan mindset. The German mind here is right on, it’s thoughtful and grounded in EDUCATION from its Hebrew Aramaic roots.

[@MrWholphin]

So, the Bible says God created the world in six days. It amazes me how many people think it's seven days, you'd think they never even bothered to read it, yet they feel qualified to interpret it for other people