Jon Christian Ryter is an advertising executive with The Washington Times. He has written on many subjects including the Bible. On his website, he says, “what you find in this site will always be the truth.”

In his Bible Questions section, he makes it clear that he does not support any view that places the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in the past. I respectfully challenged him on this by asking him to read my brief article Were the Apostle False Prophets? and to offer a response.

He refused to read the article. Instead, he sent eight e-mail messages objecting to the welcome message at Preterism.info. If he had simply read the article as I requested, he would have discovered that it addresses many of the objections he raised.

November 28, 2005

Dear Mr. Ryter,

RE: http://www.jonchristianryter.com/Root/Answers.html

On your website, you write at length regarding the future fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ and many related eschatological events found in the book of Revelation. Here is a quotation from your Bible Questions page: “We know…that Jesus will physically return to Earth.”

Jesus predicted that his return would take place in the first century. The apostles continued to teach the same thing throughout the New Testament.

Furthermore, Christ said that the Holy Spirit would guide the apostles into “all the truth” and show them “what is to come” (John 16:13, NASB). So whatever the apostles said was “to come” must have been inspired by the Holy Spirit.

If the Second Coming failed to occur when it was supposed to, why would any sensible person have faith that it will take place in the future? To maintain the credibility of Jesus, the apostles, the Holy Spirit and the Bible, Christians have only one reasonable option: Jesus must have returned in the first century exactly when he said he would.

I recommend the short article Were the Apostles False Prophets? found at http://www.preterism.info. If you disagree with the conclusion presented in this article, I respectfully challenge you to provide a response which I will gladly post at Preterism.info. Otherwise, I will post this friendly challenge and note that it was never answered.

Sincerely,

Michael A. Fenemore
http://www.Preterism.info

To read Mr. Ryter’s response, click here.