SotS Answer Intro

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000" background="040c8c00erkjxk.jpg"> <div> <B><U>Timothy King</U></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CC0033" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>is an elder and teacher for Restoration Ministries.  He lives in Grand Junction with his wife, Debbie, and their three daughters, Hannah, Sarah and Bekah.</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Brush Script MT" ><B>Restoration Ministries</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFF99" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CC0000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>  |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Restoration Ministries"><U>home</U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1041c900.jpg" border=0 width="540" height="144" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>by Timothy King</B></div> <div> ________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> Early this June (2003), I received a newsletter from the "Sword of the Spirit Apologetics," headed by Larry Hall, based right here in Grand Junction, Colorado.  Larry is a lay apologist and has written on Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Masonic Lodge and the Word of Faith movement.  This latest newsletter had a more personal tone about it as Larry took up the subject of "The 'Preterist' Heresy."</div> <bR> <div> My own personal opinion of the article is that it is written in a mocking, condescending attitude and is full of cartoonish portrayals of preterists.  It swims freely in the pool of slander as Larry associates preterists with the likes of Jim Jones and the Heaven's Gate cults.  </div> <bR> <div> But that's just my opinion.  If you would like a copy of the newsletter for yourself, write to Larry at <B>Sword of the Spirit Apologetics</B>, P.O. Box 40452, Grand Junction, Colorado, 81504.  Ask for the issue on "The 'Preterist' Heresy." You can also find the article on Larry's web site, <A HREF="http://www.luciferlink.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.luciferlink.org"><U>Luciferlink</U></A>.  Enter and click on "What's New."</div> <bR> <div> I feel the need to respond for several reasons, not all of which I will bore you with here.  The chief reason is that I at one time considered Larry as a friend.  He did offer me encouragement on more than one occasion and for that I remember him fondly.  But, for what reason I'm not sure, Larry felt it necessary to turn against me in a particularly vicious manner after I came to embrace the doctrine of preterism.</div> <bR> <div> I hope that these answers may bring him to consider his position -- not that he would agree with me in my eschatology, but that he would at least realize that there was no reason regard me as an enemy.  I would love to be friends with him again.  Larry, I hope you might consider what I am writing here and see that the Spirit of love in Christ need not quenched because of my preterism.  God bless.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>_____________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id153.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SotS 1"><U>Eschatology and Salvation</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id156.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hated Creeds"><U>"Those Hated Creeds!"</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id159.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SotS 3"><U>The Date of Revelation</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id160.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SotS 4"><U>Acts 1:11 -- Bodily and Physical?</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id170.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SotS 5"><U>The Resurrected Body of Jesus</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>