Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.

Like a pair of old genes, July 17, 2023.

Introduction Many times, those who are listening to the debates

over hyper-prederism concentrate too much on the debaters and what they are saying when

they really ought to take a look at the universe in which the debate is occurring.

This is a lesson that we should all have taken from presuppositionalism.

We should not simply listen to what the debaters on the stage are saying, as helpful and

as edifying as that might be.

We also need to ask questions about the stage itself, the structure they are sitting on,

and how it was all constructed.

We could also ask a question or two about the chairs.

The debate over hyper-prederism tends to focus on whether the prophecy is a scripture

traditionally taken as referring to the end of the world, should not rather be taken as

predicting the end of the Judaic Aeon, which happened with the destruction of the

temple in 70 AD.

This approach was made more plausible in part by the rise of what is called partial

preterism, the position I hold, which is the view that many of the passages that some

have assigned to the end of the world are, in fact, predictions of the fall of Jerusalem.

The key there is many, but not all.

The hyper-prederists look at this and ask if one's good, two must be better, right?

To which the partial preterists reply learnably, gag.

The downstream ramifications of hyper-prederism are where the real problems are manifested.

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