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

April 15, 2009 7:30 PM EST (4:30 PM PST): Roderick Edwards will be on the program to discuss the eschatological paradigm known as “hyper-preterism”. Mr . Edwards, a former hyper-preterist is well versed in this topic and this will be a good discussion dealing with the in’s and out’s of this system of eschatology.

Roderick Edwards, like many American Christians shortly after becoming a Christian joined with a Dispensationalist congregation wherein he was married & raised his daughter. After about 10 years of membership, Edwards was urged by a friend to study “Calvinism/Reformed Theology”. At first, Edwards resisted Reformed Theology as too rigid but the more & more he studied Christian history he began to see that at one time to be Protestant was synonymous with being Reformed. Within 2 years Edwards considered himself a Reformed Christian & began attending Reformed congregations. Unfortunately, like many modern Christians who find their way back to historic Christianity, Edwards misunderstood the concept of “Sola Scriptura/Bible Alone” as meaning each individual interprets the Bible for themselves. This rabid individualism of unanchored hermeneutics allowed Edwards’ to fall prey to a heresy that utilizes a distorted concept of Sola Scriptura to it’s advantage. The heresy is called Hyperpreterism. Edwards spent 15 years within the hyperpreterist movement, all the while trying to reconcile how Sola Scriptura wouldn’t amount to SOLO Scriptura — private interpretation (2 Pe 1:19-21). Upon realizing the REAL concept of Sola Scriptura, it took about 5 years of the 15 years for Edwards to finally work himself out of the heretical movement. Edwards wants to make it clear that it is NOT individual study that leads people to “truth” but a constant conformity, not to denominationalism but to the Bible & to the united doctrines of the greater covenantal community called historic Christianity. The Reformed motto of “Reformed & always reforming” finds its best fulfillment when Christians navigate between the errors of dead institutionalism AND rabid individualism.

Edwards maintains a personal theological website at thekingdomcome.com & contributes to a site countering hyperpreterism called preteristblog.com. Edwards attends an RPCNA church in the Indianapolis area.

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