Rapture Preterists?
Filed Under (Author, Dee Dee Warren) by dee dee on 28-02-2013
Tagged Under : Hyperpreterism-Consistency, Hyperpreterism-Resurrection, Rapture
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Repost: Originally posted May 26, 2006
During their Olympic-gymnastic quality contortations to avoid the fact that their view is historically an abominable heresy, at a hyperpreterist mailing list it was asked what one calls a [hyper]preterist that believes in a first century “rapture.” I laughed. There is one word to call them.
Consistent.
If someone is going to follow heresy, they might as well be consistently heretical, and any hyperpreterist that cannot or will not place the “rapture” at that time is simply uncomfortable with the stark reality of the the corner they have painted themselves into.
Isn’t this just another case of heretical preterists avoiding the admission that their position is demonstrably false by erasing any historical aspect of their distinctive faith that would falsify it?
It reminds me of the Jehovah’s Witnesses who predicted the return of Jesus in 1914. When it failed to happen, rather than admit that the only true prophet of today had erred, they just radically redefined the return of Christ and the resurrction, making both invisible and spiritual.
You’d think the hyperprets could avoid the same mistake, given that the theory came into existence after the fact!