biblelighthouse
Puritan Board Junior
Originally posted by houseparent
While I believe that Joseph, how do you reconcile this passage?
Matt 7:13"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
I believe Christ's statement there was to the Christians of that day, and was not directed to Christians of all time. And certainly, in the first century, those words held very true.
Lest someone think I'm just glibly dismissing a passage that is (by itself) difficult for postmillenial doctrine, please keep in mind that I have only come to this conclusion regarding Matthew 7:13-14 after considering many other passages as well.
It's kind of like reading the 10th chapter of Hebrews. I have to admit that I would be an Arminian if that was the only chapter of the Bible that I knew about. But Calvinism is so explicitly clear in John 6, John 10, Ephesians 1, Romans 9, etc., that it is no longer tenable for me to hold to an Arminian interpretation of Hebrews 10.
Similarly, if I only had Matthew 7:13-14 to read, then I would be amillennial. But I also have to deal with Matthew 5:5: Romans 4:13, Galatians 3:29, Psalm 110, 1 Corinthians 15, the parable of the wheat and the tares, the parable of the yeast in the dough, the parable of the mustard seed, etc., etc., etc. . .
And in light of all these passages, I can hardly justify throwing them all out the window because of Matthew 7:13-14, especially since another plausible interpretation of that one passage is readily available.