The Kingdom of Promise and ProphecyWhiteside, Robertson L.
Religion
The Kingdom of Promise and Prophecy
Whiteside, Robertson L.
Bible -- Prophecies
Much is said these days about modernism and fundamentalism. I hope to be
allowed to live in a modern world without being called a “modernist” and
to hold to fundamental truths without being dubbed a “fundamentalist.”
These “fundamentalists” have formed a program for the Lord, mixed in a
few truths, and named the mixture “fundamentalism,” and its advocates
“fundamentalists.” If their theory is as old as the Bible, why the new
names for it and its advocates? Old ideas and doctrines do not require
new names: anything new requires a new name. Now, “modernism” and
“modernist” are older words than “fundamentalism” and “fundamentalist.”
Religiously, I am no “modernist”; and the term “fundamentalism” is too
new for a Bible lover to accept. It is even newer than the term
“modernism.” It would be interesting to hear Mr. Rice explain how his
doctrine is so ancient, since the name of it is more modern than is the
term “modernism.” In name, they out modern the modernists! When a
doctrine is more modern than modernism, it is too modern for me.
In Mr. Rice’s tract, “Christ’s Literal Reign on Earth from David’s
Throne at Jerusalem,” he claims to prove “from the Scriptures the
premillennial coming of Christ; that he has not yet set up his kingdom
on earth, but that he will reign from a literal throne at Jerusalem, in
his literal human body, over the entire earth.” He assumes much, argues
little, and makes many scattering assertions. It would be easier to
review his tract, if more care and thought had gone into its making.
The trouble with him and his future-kingdom advocates, is not
speculating about unfulfilled prophecies, but a perversion and
dislocation of prophecies that have been fulfilled. When a man takes
prophecies that have been fulfilled and makes them do service in some
future program, he is not speculating about unfulfilled prophecies. To
call such perversion “speculation about unfulfilled prophecies” is to
yield to him his claim that they have not been fulfilled. This is not,
therefore, a discussion on “unfulfilled prophecies,” but an effort to
show that Mr. Rice and others have, in the interest of a theory,
dislocated promises and prophecies, some of which have been fulfilled.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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