Why is Bruce Gore not more popular? He is the most lucid teacher alive, after RC Sproul. I wish to communicate with this level of clarity and effective organization.
The main reason Bruce has a smaller footprint than his stature suggests, has, in large part, to do with his very unpopular views. Calvinism alone sends many packing for their Arminian bunkers, and mixing in a heavy dose of postmillennialism, completely disperses the rapture-crazed crowd. Christians are terrified to be challenged. Confirmation bias within Christendom is epidemic. If one dares deviate from the sacrosanct eschatological sacred cow of dispensationalism, first he’s attacked as a heretic and then the mob runs as fast and as far as they can away from the perceived heretic. Yes, Bruce is a national treasure whose works will become more and more celebrated after he’s long gone. It’s almost unfair that God has placed in one man, the brilliance and radiating influence. History, theology communicated with such articulate precision is truly amazing. God bless Bruce!
I don’t remember exactly how I found your teachings but they have blessed me immensely since I have! You have been my “gateway drug” into learning history and the way you teach has given me such a fire to read history as God’s story! Keep the videos coming! Also, can you recommend a good biography on John Witherspoon?
I have recently become PostMil in my eschatology, but I do have a question about the early Church. If the Christians in Jerusalem understood Jesus' teaching in the Olivet Discourse and escaped, how is it that there were not more teaching a Preterist view just a few years after the Destruction of Jerusalem? To me it would seem that the early Church Fathers would have all been pointing to the Olivet Discourse and the Book of Revelation and saying, "See? This just happened and fulfilled these prophecies." How were so many convinced these prophecies were still in their future?
The separatists were not a movement all of their own. They were a subgroup within English puritanism. We cannot say they were utterly distinct. The same stuff is happening in the SBC, right now. There is a very vocal minority calling the SBC to purity. Of this vocal minority, a not-insignificant cohort is proposing that leaving is the only route to a pure expression of Baptist life. History repeats itself over and over again.
Question: When we read scripture, is the return of Jesus described as a peaceful event where Jesus is welcomed back to Earth to conduct the Final Judgment and usher in the eternal state by a mostly "Christianized" world, or do we read of the return of Jesus as a violent and bloody event where the Son of God goes to war against His enemies and includes the rescue of Israel (Zech 12-14, Rev 19) ??
There are 2 questions I have wrestled with. 1.To what extent did Augustine truly move on from on Neo-Platonism? 2. Psalm 110v1 the most often quoted verse in the NT. All Christ's enemies being brought under His feet and the comprehensive paganism that characterises Western culture today across all institutions and the we Postmill view? I'm probably thinking from the natural minds perspective in its cognitive dissonance. I'm leaning toward Partial preterism but am still Amillenial at this point. Thank you. Always nourished profoundly with your teaching. In Christ our Lord. Nigel Mohammed
I'm also Amil. The PostMil people are the ones who seem to be responding to the 2020 madness the best. My church is stuck in just preaching piety and evangelism. No connection to the big things going on. I'm 2/3 through this video and Bruce has given me motivation to read more .. and at least be an optimistic Amil 😆
Regarding the decline of the west. I think the Christians of the west have awaited the rapture and have had a terrible view of being an ambassador of Christ
Concerning your third question I to am a partial preterist. As we see this type of layout in the old to new testament. Such as in the book of psalms we have an immediate "partial" fulfillment regarding David's words of himself and then that same verse finding its culmination in Christ. And there are many of these examples that can be viewed in scripture. Now I'm only a lay person and still learning but I do believe that revelation was finding its partial completion within that generation with the fall of Jerusalem. But, it's full completion is reserved for the end times such with the revealing of the Anti Christ. I will say this for this time, I don't believe that history has a time when the whole is in am uproar of Sin
@@Evan-lx9lw So true! I still can't get over semi-preterism and Postmillennialism! when you have been brought up to think a certain way.. then suddenly now you can see straight I just can't shut up about it. Everything makes sense now. I get the bible now! I so want to take down dispensationalism! its basically enslaved Christians. If Christians were Postmillennialism there's no way the federal government would have got so big.
Yep, things have been going great since Adam and Eve. I can't believe someone can't see how great things are going to get in say 500-10,000 years. It's only been a little over 2000 years and look how far we've come. Yep, I've got high hopes for mankind. Sure there was a flood where God wiped just about everybody off the planet, Sodom and Gomorrah, that happened. I mean forget what Paul writes in 2 Timothy 3 1-4. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, THAT...THAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. All happened in 1 generation. 40 years from 30-70 AD. Yes sir, BUT this generation's got it all figured out. Thanks to Puritans, Calvinist, Church of Christ, Church of Disciples, etc.
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Why is Bruce Gore not more popular? He is the most lucid teacher alive, after RC Sproul.
I wish to communicate with this level of clarity and effective organization.
I agree, I have learnt a lot from Bruce Gore, having come out of Dispensationalism, Hebrew Roots and Charismatic movement.
The main reason Bruce has a smaller footprint than his stature suggests, has, in large part, to do with his very unpopular views. Calvinism alone sends many packing for their Arminian bunkers, and mixing in a heavy dose of postmillennialism, completely disperses the rapture-crazed crowd. Christians are terrified to be challenged. Confirmation bias within Christendom is epidemic. If one dares deviate from the sacrosanct eschatological sacred cow of dispensationalism, first he’s attacked as a heretic and then the mob runs as fast and as far as they can away from the perceived heretic. Yes, Bruce is a national treasure whose works will become more and more celebrated after he’s long gone. It’s almost unfair that God has placed in one man, the brilliance and radiating influence. History, theology communicated with such articulate precision is truly amazing. God bless Bruce!
You got Bruce! Awesome! He is my favorite!
Just came across Bruce's teachings a wk or so ago...true blessing
Found it pretty funny it had his intro music at the beginning 😄
Love Mr Gore. Thank you for explaining things so incredibly well. God bless
I don’t remember exactly how I found your teachings but they have blessed me immensely since I have! You have been my “gateway drug” into learning history and the way you teach has given me such a fire to read history as God’s story! Keep the videos coming! Also, can you recommend a good biography on John Witherspoon?
Thanks for the great Christian History lecture sir.
I love Bruce Gore’s teaching! First came across a lesson of his on David Livingston and everything since then has been great!
All your videos are time well spent. 😊
I have recently become PostMil in my eschatology, but I do have a question about the early Church. If the Christians in Jerusalem understood Jesus' teaching in the Olivet Discourse and escaped, how is it that there were not more teaching a Preterist view just a few years after the Destruction of Jerusalem? To me it would seem that the early Church Fathers would have all been pointing to the Olivet Discourse and the Book of Revelation and saying, "See? This just happened and fulfilled these prophecies." How were so many convinced these prophecies were still in their future?
The separatists were not a movement all of their own. They were a subgroup within English puritanism. We cannot say they were utterly distinct. The same stuff is happening in the SBC, right now. There is a very vocal minority calling the SBC to purity. Of this vocal minority, a not-insignificant cohort is proposing that leaving is the only route to a pure expression of Baptist life. History repeats itself over and over again.
#datpostmil
Question: When we read scripture, is the return of Jesus described as a peaceful event where Jesus is welcomed back to Earth to conduct the Final Judgment and usher in the eternal state by a mostly "Christianized" world, or do we read of the return of Jesus as a violent and bloody event where the Son of God goes to war against His enemies and includes the rescue of Israel (Zech 12-14, Rev 19) ??
Puritans rock 🪨
There are 2 questions I have wrestled with. 1.To what extent did Augustine truly move on from on Neo-Platonism? 2. Psalm 110v1 the most often quoted verse in the NT. All Christ's enemies being brought under His feet and the comprehensive paganism that characterises Western culture today across all institutions and the we Postmill view? I'm probably thinking from the natural minds perspective in its cognitive dissonance. I'm leaning toward Partial preterism but am still Amillenial at this point. Thank you. Always nourished profoundly with your teaching. In Christ our Lord. Nigel Mohammed
I'm also Amil.
The PostMil people are the ones who seem to be responding to the 2020 madness the best.
My church is stuck in just preaching piety and evangelism. No connection to the big things going on.
I'm 2/3 through this video and Bruce has given me motivation to read more .. and at least be an optimistic Amil 😆
Regarding the decline of the west.
I think the Christians of the west have awaited the rapture and have had a terrible view of being an ambassador of Christ
Concerning your third question I to am a partial preterist. As we see this type of layout in the old to new testament. Such as in the book of psalms we have an immediate "partial" fulfillment regarding David's words of himself and then that same verse finding its culmination in Christ. And there are many of these examples that can be viewed in scripture. Now I'm only a lay person and still learning but I do believe that revelation was finding its partial completion within that generation with the fall of Jerusalem. But, it's full completion is reserved for the end times such with the revealing of the Anti Christ. I will say this for this time, I don't believe that history has a time when the whole is in am uproar of Sin
@@Evan-lx9lw So true! I still can't get over semi-preterism and Postmillennialism! when you have been brought up to think a certain way.. then suddenly now you can see straight I just can't shut up about it. Everything makes sense now. I get the bible now! I so want to take down dispensationalism! its basically enslaved Christians. If Christians were Postmillennialism there's no way the federal government would have got so big.
Question 1: Read Ken Wilson’s masterpiece ‘The Foundation of Augustinian-Calvinism’
Bruce, Where did Calvin say there were no commoners and no nobility?
NT Wright?
Yep, things have been going great since Adam and Eve. I can't believe someone can't see how great things are going to get in say 500-10,000 years. It's only been a little over 2000 years and look how far we've come. Yep, I've got high hopes for mankind. Sure there was a flood where God wiped just about everybody off the planet, Sodom and Gomorrah, that happened. I mean forget what Paul writes in 2 Timothy 3 1-4. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, THAT...THAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. All happened in 1 generation. 40 years from 30-70 AD. Yes sir, BUT this generation's got it all figured out. Thanks to Puritans, Calvinist, Church of Christ, Church of Disciples, etc.
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