Editor's Note: What doctrine or issue have you
changed your mind about? TGC posed that question to several pastors,
theologians, and other thinkers in order to gain a better understanding
of what leads to shifts along the theological spectrum. Sam Storms
launches this new series with an explanation of how he changed his views
on the millennium.
Although I grew up in a Southern Baptist church and was regularly
exposed to Scripture, I can't recall ever hearing anything about a
"millennial" kingdom, much less the variety of theories regarding its
meaning and relationship to the second coming of Christ. Like many of my
generation, my initial exposure to biblical eschatology was in reading
Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth during the summer of 1970.
Not long thereafter I purchased a Scofield Reference Bible and began
to devour its notes and underline them more passionately than I did the
biblical text on which they commented. No one, as I recall, ever
suggested to me there was a view other than that of the dispensational,
pretribulational, premillennialism of Scofield. Anyone who dared call it
into question was suspected of not believing in biblical inerrancy. Continue at Sam Storms
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