The hyperpreterist authors of the book in question have been watching the interaction on PB.
Yes yes, everyone is soooooo "afraid" of the hyperpreterists. I keep pointing out that the hyperpreterist movement uses the same tactics as the homosexual movement.: First they seek "tolerance", then "acceptance", then superiority. All the while they claim anyone who will not go along with them is a bigot or "phobic" (afraid). No, rather we are DISGUSTED both with the homosexual agenda & the hyperpreterist agenda.
Notice also how they re-label ALL of historic Christianity as "futurists". There is NO SUCH THING. There is not one Christian that believes ALL N.T. prophecy is yet future. ALL Christians are preteristic & futuristic. The only true dichotomy to hyperpreterism is Christians vs heretics.
Hyperprets often try to equate themselves with the Reformers & with Luther but in reality, hyperpreterism is more akin to the radicals or "
enthusiasts" of the Reformation such as
Andreas Karlstadt or
Thomas Munzter who like the hyperprets wanted to chuck all of Christian history & make up something new & call it "Christianity". Luther had Scripture AND all of Christian history pre-Papalism on his side. The hyperprets only have their private interpretations.
Further, hyperprets are more akin to the Arians who attempted to redefine Christianity...even using the "Bible alone" (al bet it grossly misinterpreted). Interestingly, hyperpret leader Samuel Frost (one of the authors of the book in question) even unwittingly compares hyperpreterism to Arianism:
“Now my question is when did we do this for the second coming of Christ? When have we had these councils & Arius that came up & said ‘Hey, ‘, because afterall we became Trinitarians because there was a guy named Arius who stood up & said, `Hey I think Jesus was the first created being. I don’t think he was an eternal being.’ Then you had a lot of people begin saying, ‘Now wait a minute here.’ & they began to go back to the Scriptures & they began to fight for hundreds of years & they finally came out with what you know we have at Chalcedon..you know Nicean Chalcedon. But somebody rose their hand up & said, ‘Hey can I challenge this?’ & that’s all..that’s what I’m doing I’m asking, ‘Can I challenge this? Can I question -he shall come again and judge the living & the dead- Can we…can I question that? ‘ (you gotta hear him actually say it —
source)
Frost believes
"we are trinitarians because of Arius" -- really??? Rather, the concept of Christ's deity & the Trinity were ALREADY the accepted teaching within Christianity. Heresies caused the Church to call councils to CLARIFY what was ALREADY the belief. The hyperprets want to compare themselves to Arians, go for it!
Lastly, Frost in Jan 2002 made himself a "pastor" of a hyperpret congregation. He claimed he had right to do so because of an "unsettled condition" in the Church.
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knew that the doctrine of [hyper]preterism was truly reformational in proportions to the handed down traditions on this matter. It was not a mere disagreement, but a complete overhaul in many areas of thought. Therefore, in acting accord with Presbyterian principles (of unsettled condition) was justified in establishing an Independent Reformed Church.” (source pg 2)
The UNITED eschatology of historic Christianity is NOT an "unsettled condition" -- again, whether we look at pre-Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Greek/Eastern Orthodox, Syrian, Protestant/Reformed, Anabaptist, or Modern Evangelical -- ALL of these expressions of historic Christianity AGREED & were SETTLED on the exact 4 things that hyperpreterism DENIES. A difference of millennial views does not constitute an "unsettled condition" & certainly doesn't "justify" a man making himself a "pastor" of a heretical congregation & calling it "Reformed".