Why The Truth Doesn’t Matter To Hyper-Preterists

     Although Hyper-Preterists will kick and scream against the notion that their “movement” is dying, anyone who is a keen observer will see that our conclusion is right on the money.  Due to the incessant infighting among Hyper-Preterists regarding the fundamentals of their  faith, the Hyper-Preterist community has fragmented more and more during the past three years, to the point where the community is now in the sickest state its ever been.  In previous articles, I’ve written about the reluctance of H.P. leaders to publicly censure Sam Frost on his teaching that human history will ultimately come to a close.  As I’ve thought more about the issue, I’ve figured out precisely why leaders are willing to compromise on such a major point.. 

     Here’s the gist of it all.  Since Hyper-Preterism teaches that the church was wrong for 2,000 on the basic A-B-C’s of human redemption, the truth must really be non-essential, however you slice or dice it.  For either 2,000 years of regenerate Christians were damnable heretics because they taught a “different Gospel,” or their error was acceptable in the eyes of God. Since Hyper-Preterists elect the latter scenario, they must end up nullifying the importance that Biblical truth plays in the role of Christian discipleship.  The value of Scriptural “truth” then decreases in direct ratio as H.P. teachings depart from unified historic Christianity.  In the end, what the H.P. neologue is left with is a complete leveling of any distinction between truth and error.  I mean, if one can err even on the very fundamentals of the Christian faith and still be a true Christian, there would be no reason to listen to the “truth” as it comes from Hyper-Preterist lips.  No reason at all.  Let every man follow his own private judgment, and we’ll all get to heaven in the end.

  This is why hardly any H.P. leaders will confront people like Sam Frost when they begin to deny the basic tenets of the Hyper-Preterist faith.  If Christians were without the truth for 2,000 years, and did just fine without it, what difference would a few more tweaks  —  even major ones  —  make?  If Christianity as a historic whole could afford to compromise on pivotal doctrines such as the nature of Christ’s atoning “death,” the humanity of Christ, His second advent, the resurrection of the dead, and other key issues, can’t Hyper-Preterism afford to compromise on its own parameters?  Indeed, in light of the overarching premisses of H.P., such compromise is allowable, and could even be called (by Hyper-Preterists) real historic Christianity, seeing that  in their eyes Christians have been bungling from the very get-go.

   So, folks, whenever you wonder why people like Larry Siegle, Don Preston, Jason Bradfield, Michael Bennett, Wanda Short, and the numerous train of H.P. groupies and camp-followers, refuse to hold compromisers like Sam Frost accountable for bringing into H.P. newfangled teachings at variance with everything ever taught before, just keep in mind that the end result of Hyper-Preterism is to deny any radical distinction between truth and error, to the end that truth and errror stand on an equal footing.  Since H.P.’s must believe that the truths of Christianity were non-essential for 2,000 years, it is just being consistent to claim that they aren’t essential today.  Hence, if you’re an H.P., you can get away with teaching anything you want  —   so long as it doesn’t conform to any unified Christian belief; for in that case, it just wouldn’t be true Christianity.