(Mark 3:25) And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Don Preston Preterist Pilgrim Weekend 2008
There are, currently, several differing and disparate views of the resurrection circulating in the (full) preterist community. And, while all (full) preterists agree that the resurrection prophecies came into a reality at the end of the Old Covenant age in A.D. 70, there seems to be a lot of confusion concerning the nature of the resurrection. A few of the different concepts of the resurrection currently circulating (in the full preterist community):
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The Death of the Garden, the death to be overcome in Christ, was physical death. Man only began to die when he ate the fruit, but did not die for 900+ years.
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The Believer is "resurrected" when/after they die physically. The Believer currently does not have truly eternal life, but receives that at death
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There was a physical rapture in A.D. 70.
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There remains a resurrection in the future, because the millennium began in A. D. 70. This is not, in the truest sense of the word, a preterist position, but is a futurist view. However, some who call themselves preterists nonetheless espouse this.
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The resurrection of the dead is not directly related theologically to the end of the Mosaic Covenant.
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If the resurrection has become a reality, then all men are automatically saved, i.e. the doctrine of universalism.
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The resurrection and the parousia of Christ were not historical events, but, are fulfilled solely in the individual lives of believers when they are converted to Christ.
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Is the resurrection of 1 Corinthians 15 corporate or individual?
