Postmillennial view

Strengths:

• Strong kingdom-society orientation.
• Positive emphasis and motivation for human effort to expand God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
• Positive worldview, long-term outlook.
• Recognition of many comings of Christ.
• Many valid preterist understandings.

Weaknesses:

• Positing the time of Christ’s “Second Coming” and “Return” as being far, far away.
• Insistence the world must be “Christianized” to a significant degree before Christ can return.
• Adherence to an unscriptural “end-of-time” paradigm.
• Use of a dichotomizing hermeneutic based on that paradigm.
• Claim that eschatology pertains to the end of the Christian age.
• Postulating two or more parousia returns of Christ.
• Postulating a final coming and last judgment, after which there will be no more.
• Numerous partial-preterist inconsistencies from failure to fully honor the time statements.
• Bifurcating passages of Scripture, including the book of Revelation.
• Reliance on delay theory.
• Insistence that the time of fulfillment cannot be known.
• Incomplete salvation and resurrection reality.
• Advocating a future evil-less, utopian, and eternal state on earth.
• Over-dependence on creedal authority.
• The “age to come” is yet-future