Monday, November 22, 2010

Hyperpreterist "Exegesis"?

Hyperpreterists try to get people to engage them on their proof-texts. They call this being "exegetical". But the reality is the "exegesis" of hyperpreterism goes something like this:


"We want people to engage us in our false-premise driven interpretation yet we want to be able to ignore our overarching premise that says 2000 years of united Christians were too dumb to understand the basics on eschatology. We want to ignore the fact that the hyperpreterist premise implies that God, Jesus, the hand-picked apostles, and the Holy Spirit were such ineffective teachers that the day after AD70, Christians believed and taught what 2000 years of Christianity has believed and taught -- though we hyperpreterists somehow think we can be more effective teachers than God, Jesus, the hand-picked apostles and the Holy Spirit."


Look, if God, Jesus, the hand-picked apostles, and the Holy Spirit couldn't relate basic eschatology so that people understood, why are these hyperpreterists so ARROGANT to think they can figure it out?


Rather, let us consider that God, Jesus, the hand-picked apostles, and the Holy Spirit DID ACCURATELY and EFFECTIVELY relate basic eschatology so that what Christians have believed and taught the day before and the day after AD70 and up to today IS THE CHRISTIAN POSITION on eschatology.

Whatever hyperpreterism is, it is something OTHER-THAN-CHRISTIAN. They can't get around this one point. This is why they want you to bypass it, buy into their false-premise and start letting them twist Scripture and proof-texts you to death.

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