I did Tambora. Sometimes we are 'carrying' baggage around with us that we don't know is there. The minimizing of the Gospel and the expectation that there needs to be another go with Israel is a 'baggage' that is very hard to see these days, but neither are there in the NT, although they dominate the church.
In the movie THE EXPERIMENTOR, a test is done about suggestiveness. A person in a crowded area bursts out that he has seen something unusual in the sky. The crowd does not know that 4 people have been planted to 'agree' with him. The Experimentor wanted to see what the mass of the crowd would do when 4-5 people insisted they saw something. Almost everyone in the hearing of the announcement agreed, even though there was nothing.
It's like that about things needing to happen in modern Israel. There's just nothing there in the NT (in the scope of doctrine--Galatians or Hebrews) even though it has been 'planted' that we should think so.
Lol - nice SELF-portrait, Inter :rotfl:
You're like the self-righteous Jew in the NT who, viewing things through his bias, concludes others are the ones doing that.
Those experiments prove nothing. They leave out too many factors that actual objectivity would consider.
That's you.
You parrot Partial Preterism. A system that arose out of an attempt to solve for various SEEMING problems as a result, and from, a perspective of wisdom in it's own conceits through the ignorance that was in them for their love of said wisdom in its own conceits.
Yours is that circular in reasoning.
This is why I hold a low regard for "Scholarship," despite my great love for books of all sorts.
As with Western Medicine, the "Scholarship" of Christianity long ago locked itself into a "one size fits all" model of "reality" it ignorantly refers to as "THE gospel."
You think you know what you are reading in the various passages.
Were you honest with yourself, you'd admit what that actually is - you read ABOUT it.
I know, I know; my pointing this out really gets your goat.
Fact is you HAVE and CONTINUE TO OVER rely on the "wisdom" of MEN.
I am way OVER read myself.
The difference?
I REFUSE to OVER rely on it.
As a result, regrettably, you and I will ALWAYS differ.