Doctrinal Episodes – Page 3 – International Preterist Association

Romans – Introduction

Every prophetic view (futurist and preterist) uses the book of Romans as a source for its particular approach to fulfillment. How we interpret Romans can make a big difference not only in our eschatological perspectives, but in our understanding of salvation as well. In this introduction, we note that the book of Romans is not…

Overview of 1 Cor 15

September 22, 2014January 18, 2025 Doctrinal Episodes, Exegetical Episodes, Podcast, Preterist View Episodes, Rapture Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

In the past several podcasts we have looked at bits and pieces of the 1Cor 15 context. In this session we summarize all that and provide the overall big picture of what Paul is saying about the resurrection here in his letters to the Corinthian saints. We share some further insights into this text which…

Expectations of a Change

September 22, 2014January 18, 2025 Doctrinal Episodes, Exegetical Episodes, Podcast, Rapture Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

What were the pre-70 saints expecting to see, hear, and EXPERIENCE at the Parousia? Was it going to be a non-cognitive and un-experienced event, with those saints left on earth afterwards not even aware that the Parousia had occurred? Apostle Paul promised the living saints that they would be CHANGED at the Parousia. The dead…

"Being Raised" in 1 Corinthians 15

September 22, 2014January 19, 2025 Doctrinal Episodes, Exegetical Episodes, Podcast, Preterist View Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

Advocates for the Collective Body View (CBV) of the resurrection claim that the Present Passive form of the Greek verb EGEIRO ("are raised") can ONLY be legitimately translated as "are BEING raised" with the sense of an ongoing process of resurrection of the collective body. On the basis of that claim, they label other preterists…

Who and Where were the Dead?

September 22, 2014January 18, 2025 Doctrinal Episodes, Podcast, Preterist View Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

Futurists think that “the Dead” is a reference to dead physical bodies in the graves, so that the phrase “resurrection of the Dead” means dead bodies being raised out of the graves. Some fellow preterists think “the Dead” is referring to the collective body being raised out of covenantally dead Judaism. However, we look at…

"Our Body" – Collective or Individual?

September 22, 2014January 19, 2025 Doctrinal Episodes, Exegetical Episodes, Podcast, Preterist View Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

One of the most important texts which the Collective Body View (CBV) uses to support its concept of a collective body resurrection is Philippians 3:21. They contend that the phrase “our body” mentioned here in this text is a reference to the collective body (the church) being resurrected or “transformed” at the Parousia. Through grammatical…

Why Bodies Were Not Raised?

September 22, 2014January 18, 2025 Doctrinal Episodes, Podcast, Preterist View Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

Futurists relentlessly pester us preterists with the nagging question: "There is no record of bodies coming out of the graves in AD 70. If the dead were raised at that time, why were the physical bodies of the dead saints NOT raised?" In this session we look at some of the various concepts of resurrection…

Resurrection out of Sheol-Hades

September 22, 2014January 18, 2025 Cosmology Episodes, Doctrinal Episodes, Podcast, Preterist View Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

There is so much confusion in both futurism and preterism about the place in the unseen realm called Sheol or Hades. We take an in-depth look at the Old Testament concept of Sheol to show that it was the place where the conscious disembodied souls of all the dead, both wicked and righteous, were held…

Genesis: Myth, Figurative or Historical?

September 22, 2014January 19, 2025 Doctrinal Episodes, Exegetical Episodes, Historical Fulfillments Episodes, Podcast, Preterist View Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

Is the Genesis account of Creation and the Flood literal and historical, or merely figurative or mythological? And how does that relate to the Preterist view and our explanation of the NATURE of fulfillment of the endtime events? Every systematic theology has to deal with Genesis, and the way they interpret it will automatically determine…

Fruit of the Collective Body Tree

September 22, 2014January 18, 2025 Doctrinal Episodes, Podcast, Preterist View Episodes, Resurrection Episodes

Advocates of the Collective Body resurrection view have accused the Individual Body View of being futurist because we teach that we get a new immortal body and go to heaven at physical death. However, we reverse those charges, and show that the Collective Body View has produced some very rotten fruit by teaching that we…

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