Preterism - True Or false?

I believe preterism is false because the events preterists SAY have already occurred are completely absent from history. I await any preterist replies.

 

There's no valid reason to not believe Scripture LITERALLY AS POSSIBLE. Sure, there's some symbolism in Scripture, but those symbols always stand for something real. And many of them are explained by other verses of Scripture, while the meanings of the others can be discerned with our overview of all Scripture.

Partial preterism ignores these words of Jesus: Matt. 24:29[i\ “Immediately after the tribulation[/i] of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. "

So we see that Jesus will return immediately after the great trib. Now, if the trib was in 70 AD, He is long-overdue!

As for Matt. 24:34, we must look at the various meanings of "genea", rendered 'generation' in that verse. Besides meaning the body of all mankind living in a given time, it can also mean an age or a nation or people. (We might get a little help on this from the readers of Koine Greek on this site.) And it's quite-obvious that Jesus' use of that word is in a sense other than referring to the people living at the time He uttered that prophecy. Remember, Jesus' prophecies will be fulfilled to the letter of how they were originally written and preserved. And it's just-as-obvious He has NOT yet returned in the manner HE HIMSELF described - in great power and glory, SEEN BY ALL, even those who pierced Him.

Also, remember that over a hundred Old testament prophecies about Jesus' first coming were LITERALLY fulfilled TO THE LETTER. Thus, there's no valid reason to believe the rest of His prophecies won'y be fulfilled just-as-exactly, just-as-literally!

Preterists try to fill in the gaps between their pronouncements and history/reality by reducing "inconvenient" Scriptures to "figurative/symbolic" status, but that's tampering with God's word by inventing new meanings for it - in other words, it's EISEGESIS, that is, reading man-made meanings into Scripture. I have but one conclusion to draw about preterism, full or partial -

"PRETERISM - PHONY AS A FORD CORVETTE!"

 

You're right, to a point. yes, all things prophesied about Jesus must be fulfilled. But you've admitted that His 2nd coming hasn't occurred yet. And when it does, it'll be in the exact manner prophesied, with all the prophesied accompanying events.

BTW, Alcazar wrote much of the material that makes up the current preterism myth today, to protect his pope from being labeled the 'beast'.(Another false doctrine, BTW.) So, we have false trying to counter false. Two falses DON'T make a truth!

Again & again, I shall ask preterists for **PROOF** that the events they SAY have occurred, HAVE actually occurred. So far, they're batting ZERO!

Lemme speak briefly about Nero, whom some prets cay was the "beast". While nero was a bad man, he did not fulfill many Scriptural criteria for the TRUE beast. He was never in jerusalem, so he couldn't've committed the "abomination of desolation". He did NOT overthrow three other rulers to become Caesar; he inherited the office. He was overthrown by other men, while the true beast will not be. He did not have a miracle-working false prophet as his deputy. And...He was NOT cast alive along with a false prophet, alive, into the lake of fire. He DIED in fronta several witnesses, after having his secretary, Epaphroditus, stab him with a sword, as he thought general Galba's men who came to arrest him were gonna kill him, & he didn't wanna die by Galba's men. (Those men tried in vain to save his life.) So, Nero was certainly not the beast! (The TRUE beast MUST fulfill ALL Scriptural criteria for the beast EXACTLY!)

More proof all preterism is phony as a Ford Corvette!

 

Partial preterism is just-as-false, as jesus said there'd be a great cosmological disturbance IMMEDIATELY AFTER the great trib has ended, during which He shall return. So, I think it's quite-obvious the trib hasn't yet occurred, nor any of the other prophesied eschatological events.

The Greek for the two "shortlys" in Revelation as found in the KJV is "en tachos", which means "rapid movement or occurrence", not "soon", I am told by a neighbor proficient in Koine and modern Greek.. ("Tachycardia" means rapid heart beat.) That means, when the events begin, they'll come in rapid succession. And again, it's OBVIOUS those events have NOT yet happened!

Now, does that mean the Scriptures are wrong? Of course not. It means that some people's own interpretations of them are wrong. So far, the Bible las a 1.000 batting average of its prophecies being fulfilled exactly, and I have no doubt this percentage will continue as the rest are fulfilled, in GOD'S timing.