Why I do not debate heretics
Preterists are heretics. This is beyond contestation. They deny the bodily resurrection of believers. I will not wish them well, neither will I engage in discussion with them about God’s word. I will condemn them and move on. If you think me harsh, remember what Jesus did to the Sadducees. He called them vipers and sons of the devil, same as the Pharisees. Why? Both camps were leading people to Hell (A very real place, which these heretics would probably also deny)!!!
Luke 20:27-38 – Then some of the Sadducees, WHO DENY THAT THERE IS A RESURRECTION, came to Him and asked Him, saying: “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife and died without children. And the second took her as wife, and he died childless. Then the third took her, and in like manner the seven also; and they left no children and died. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become? For all seven had her as wife.” Jesus answered and said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. But THOSE WHO ARE COUNTED WORTHY TO ATTAIN THAT AGE, AND THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, neither marry nor are given in marriage; NOR CAN THEY DIE ANYMORE, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”
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This story is related in Matthew and Mark as well, but Luke’s details truly illustrate just how much the doctrine of the Preterists is condemned by Jesus Himself! The Resurrection Christ spoke of was most definitely a physical one! Preterists say it’s all spiritual. It’s already happened, blah, blah, blah. They deny an actual resurrection of the believer. As such, they are worthy of condemnation as the Sadducees.
They deny the Gospel message. They then mock those who hold to it. Do not wish them well. The Apostle John said exactly what to do with them, reject them!
2 John:9-11 – Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
The sad thing is, they will be resurrected! It’s just, it won’t be with the righteous at the first resurrection.
John 5:29-30 – Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
Let the preterists rail. Let them say you won’t debate them. They are fools, who have decided that they know a better Gospel than the one given by Jesus Himself. The resurrection is to come, and as surely as the sun rises in the East, it will come.