On Scholars & Pseudo-Scholars

In my occasional inroads with heresy, I sometimes run across across “experts” whose purpose it is to defend their respective systems. In a movement like Full Preterism, which claims that 2,000 years of Christian teaching is fundamentally false, these experts can be a dime-a-dozen. Several years ago, I counted around 75 fully operational, active “teachers”…

Futurism Vindicated: Why Preterism Never Sold

It is doubtless a ‘true saying’ that Preterism has always been hard to sell to evangelicals. Certainly, its popularity is more sporadic than ongoing. Every few years or so it seems to make a comeback, in some form or another, until it eventually peters out. Preterism’s heyday was the George W. Bush era, when internet…

How Christians Fall Into Heresy

   From its earliest history the church has been vexed by heresy.  We often wonder, why do heresies exist?  Paul, writing to the Corinthians, said: “For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you” (1 Cor. 11: 19).  That is, heresies exist for the trial…