SOME DISTINCTIVE DOCTRINES OF SYSTEMATIZED HYPER PRETERISM

It is important to keep in mind that many ideas and doctrines full preterism appeals to - such as the complete end of the Old Covenant world in AD70 - are by no means distinctive to that view.   Many non HyPs believe this as well, so one need not embrace the Hyper Preterist system in order to endorse this view.   Following are exceptional doctrines which, so far as I've seen, are only taught by adherents of Hyper Preterism.:

Brian Simmons
FORMER FULL PRETERIST ; NOW DISPENSATIONALIST

• PaulT interviewed by Brian Simmons - Hyper Preterism is an "ally of the enemy"

• Full Preterism: A Building on Fire (2009) "Within just two years, I have witnessed a spectacle truly amazing. A theology which was formerly one of the great wonders of the internet world has caught fire, and is now burning to cinders.. When did this conflagration start? It began in 2006, when Todd Dennis, curator of Preterist Archive.com, announced his rejection of the Hyper-Preterist position. Almost immediately the solidarity of the movement showed signs of weakening. A furious wave of attack was launched against Todd and others who began defecting from the Hyper-Preterist scene."/ (it seems like such a long time ago now... it is a shame that the reaction to challenges from former peers is 'attack' instead of 'explore'.)

• Simmons' Sola Scriptura Challenge (2009)

• Brian Simmons: Why Christ didn't return in AD70 (2009) "The unconditional promises were never made under the Mosaic Covenant.  They were made under the Abrahamic covenant.  This was demonstrated when God, in ratifying the promised blessings, Himself passed through the pieces of the sacrifice (Genesis 15: 17-18), showing that the covenant would be secured by one contracting party alone.  // This failure of Israel to acknowledge John’s mission explains why his baptism was still being administered twenty-six years after the ascension of Christ (Acts 19: 3)..  Now, if the nation failed to acknowledge John Baptist as the “Elijah” of Malachi’s prophecy, then it is absurd to claim that his mission was accomplished in the first century.  Malachi tells us that if the ministry was not fulfilled, the land would be smitten with a curse.  That is exactly what Preterists say happened in A.D. 70.  Therefore, they cannot claim that John the Baptist fulfilled the role of Elijah without contradicting themselves."

• How a Full Preterist Became a Dispensationalist (2009) "That later ages should have more insight on the issues than those who lived through the events I soon recognized as an old error of the scholastics, who make their living confuting the theories of their predecessors.  It is according to this rationale that the teachings of both evolutionism and Higher Criticism function.     Having identified historicity as an important concern, and one not to be brushed aside, I started studying the church fathers.  It was a blessing to find that Hyper-Preterist interpretations were unknown to the early church.  This knowledge was like a shot in the arm."

• Up or Down? (2009) "Preterists do not generally recognize that Christ had already been exalted to the highest position in the heavenlies at His ascension in A.D. 30.  A look at New Testament terminology confirms this.  ..and so these verses tell us that Christ is now seated in the “above heavens,” exalted above the highest aristocracy of glory — not merely angels, but principalities and powers (Eph. 1: 20-22; 1 Peter 3: 22).  If we take this exaltation as having been achieved in A.D. 30, then it is clear that upon His ascension there was no place higher for Him to go. "

• Was Satan Really Destroyed in AD70? (2009) "As Scriptures indicate, Satan was free during the entire 40-year period that Hyper-Preterists call the Millennium. Let us look at some key texts in their chronological order, and we’ll see that all throughout this period, Satan was very much “in commission.”

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