The Preterist Blog ~ 100% Hyperpreterist Free|we can haz rezurekshun?

When I use the word “admission” I do not use to mean that the person doing the “admitting” has given up the ghost. I do use it to mean that something is candidly admitted, which others in a group deny or obscure, that may not be entirely flattering to the group but is honest. David has done this before for which I have commended him. He has done it again on his Yahoo mailing list.

In the olden days (1800’s), a “preterist” was a person who saw the book of Revelation (and maybe some other passages and prophetic books) as mostly or wholly fulfilled. I think that we “heretical preterists” have been doing a fine job of changing the usage of the word. I know it irks the old-school “preterists” today (Gentry, Mathison, et al) that they’re increasingly being perceived as merely an inconsistent version of us.

I don’t concede his statement on such a thing being relegated to the 1800s, but that is not the point I am fixating on, it is David’s admission that hyperpreterists have changed the usage of the word. IOW, they have hijacked a word that meant something else. That has been my whole point. I refuse that hijacking, and so should you.

As far as being irked, semantical hijacking is irksome, agreed. At least David is upfront that such is exactly what has been going on. Something I have been saying for a few years now.