Does Preterism Lead To Atheism?

I’ve been reading more and more comments recently, to the effect that “I used to be a Christian, but am now an atheist. But before I left Christianity, I was a Preterist.” This naturally raises the question of whether there is something within Preterist theological understanding that inclines towards skepticism and/or infidelity. Of course, I…

The “Kingdom of Heaven”

  Expositors sometimes make a distinction between “The Kingdom of Heaven” and “The Kingdom of God.”  The former expression is used thirty-two times, and appears only in the Gospel of Matthew; whereas in the same Gospel the latter term is used only five times.  In the parallel passages of the other Gospels, the term “Kingdom of God” is…