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

Well if that title doesn’t get attention I don’t know what will.  But I didn’t use it just for shock value nor do I think it misrepresents hyperpreterism.

I have been in the process of reviewing a book by Keith Mathison called, The Shape of Sola Scriptura.  I am reviewing this book for a couple of reasons.

1. I want to understand more about the concepts of Sola Scriptura, since it was my misunderstanding of that concept that allowed me to be duped into hyperpreterism & remain there for 15 years. I also believe most, if not all hyperpreterists suffer from an incorrect concept of Sola Scriptura — which comes out more as private interpretation.

2. I want to eventually do a verse-by-verse commentary of the Bible (perhaps starting this June) & want to start by understanding how to read the Bible.  For so long, people on all sides have said, “We are just saying what the Bible says”, yet then the real issue is who can say what the Bible says?  Applying some convoluted “logic” or favorite “hermeneutic” isn’t enough.  It is no wonder we have over 38,000 denominations — a fact hyperpreterists often use to claim all of the Church is wrong.  There MUST be a more God-honoring way to approach the Bible than to just read a text & claim your interpretation is the best if not the only interpretation.  I have to believe a Sovereign God has left us with a better method, otherwise each man WILL “lean on his own understanding” & claim it is as good as the next man’s.

So, I wanted to share a little bit of the review of The Shape of Sola Scriptura, especially how it relates to hyperpreterism’s premise of themselves being the “recoverers” of some lost “truth”.  Pay attention to the Franciscans & how their beliefs so resemble EVERY heretical group in history & how it was actually & ironically their beliefs that gave us the concept of Papal Infallibility.

In this same way, it is the erroneous & shortsighted beliefs of hyperpreterism — which to some people may seem innocent enough — that I believe will give the Church some of its most vile doctrines in the future (if the Church embraces any of what hyperpreterism claims). Read the rest of this entry »