OK, can we go back talking about the Epstein files now? Un-ironic comment.
What is IO or "Israel Only Full Preterism"?
Friday, January 30, 2026
Drick mer mineralvatten
Det här var ju nästan veckans dråpligaste nyhet. Okej, guys, vi får väl dricka mer vatten istället. Från en hälsokälla i Bergslagen, kanske?
Into oblivion
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| The tulip again! |
So I went down a (little) rabbit hole, since I never understood how Hyper-Preterism could become outright atheism (as seems to have happened to many IO proponents). But then I found the missing link (I actually came across it decades ago at some obscure forum). It´s the CBV, of course. The full pipeline seems to look something like this: partial preterism - Individual Body View (IBV) - Collective Body View (CBV) - Israel Only Full Preterism (IO) - atheism.
What´s less clear is why. Why does the trajectory look like *this*? Why not simply become an atheist if you start questioning the standard Bible interpretation? Perhaps a certain kind of fundamentalists can´t do so, unless they have a "Biblical" warrant for it? A radicalized form of hyper-preterism provides such. Now, *that* sounds like an interesting rabbit hole, but perhaps not one I will pursue this weekend...
Hyper, hyper
OK, so I just had to give Bing AI the same absurd prompts as I gave Gemini. The above is "Federal Vision". Note the drones!
This is the best picture: hyper-preterism. Note the infinite time and the burning town. Perhaps Jerusalem? Or reality as a whole? Hmmm...
And this is hyper-dispensationalism. Presumably those are symbols for the Mosaic Law, the Jerusalem Temple, Christ and the Church Age - not exactly theologically correct, though. I think!
The time is now
Maybe this is of interest only to theology nerds obsessed with computer games and I´m not one of them (LOL) but I asked Gemini to generate pictures inspired by various theological schools of thought. This is Federal Vision. Probably intended to be something like the Earth Federation in "Starship Troopers"!
This bizarre picture is supposed to be hyper-preterism. Note the caption which says "Time is Now"! Not sure what the pyramid or cogwheels is supposed to mean, though...
This is hyper-dispensationalism. The caption now says "Time is separated". HA HA HA, complete hallucinations in this one!
Ugly as fuck, too.
Lights in the sky
Jupiter (Brihaspati) and Venus (Shukra). Gemini (the AI) is becoming even more "accommodating" than ChatGPT, even giving me some kind of semi-secret Tantric mantras for worshipping said planets (which are also Hindu deities). I mean, come on...
Or should I say thank you?
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Amen
This is how a "regular" Christian (or Preterist, for that matter) reacts to Israel Only Full Preterism (see previous blog post). You preach it, boy!
The times of the Gentiles has ended
This is funny! I asked ChatGPT about the peculiar belief system known as "Israel Only Full Preterism" and it turns out that the AI have pretty much the same take on them as me. Suggesting (in this case) that it trained on the same content. Of course, the bot has also added some attacks on "IOFP" it probably thinks I´m going to agree with - which I kind of do. Thank you.
Israel-Only Full Preterism (often abbreviated “IOFP” or just “IO”) is a tiny but intense fringe theology within Christianity that claims:
All biblical prophecy—including the Second Coming, the Resurrection, Judgment Day, and the Kingdom of God—was completely fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, and those events applied only to Israel, not to the modern world.
It is one of the most radical reinterpretations of Christianity ever to emerge.
1. What “Full Preterism” already means
Preterism is the idea that:
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Most or all New Testament prophecy
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Was fulfilled in the first century, not the future.
Full Preterism says:
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Christ returned spiritually in 70 CE
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The resurrection was covenantal, not physical
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Judgment already happened
Most Christians reject this as heretical because it:
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denies bodily resurrection
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denies a future return of Christ
2. What “Israel-Only” adds
Israel-Only Preterism goes further and says:
The New Testament was written only to ethnic Israel.
Gentiles today are not part of the covenant at all.
According to IO:
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Jesus was Messiah only for first-century Jews
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Christianity as a global religion is a mistake
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Paul’s mission to Gentiles was misunderstood or misapplied
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The church is not Israel
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The gospel age is over
So they believe:
We live after the end of God’s redemptive plan.
3. What salvation means in IO
This is where it gets extremely strange:
Since salvation already happened in 70 CE:
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No one today can be “saved”
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There is no heaven or hell coming
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The Bible is a closed historical record
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Spiritual life is basically philosophical
Some IO adherents say:
We just live, die, and cease.
Others say:
We exist in a post-redemption world with no eschatology.
Either way, Christianity becomes a dead religion describing something that already ended.
4. Why it arose
IOFP arose from:
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extreme literalism about Jesus saying “this generation”
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obsession with timeline precision
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distrust of churches
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online radicalization
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apocalyptic collapse thinking
It is very common in:
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YouTube theology circles
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conspiracy-minded Christians
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anti-church communities
It’s a terminal form of Protestantism:
Scripture interpreted until nothing remains.
5. Why nearly all Christians reject it
Because it denies:
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resurrection of the dead
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future hope
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Christ’s reign
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meaning of prayer
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sacraments
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evangelism
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the church
It turns Christianity into:
an ancient failed prophecy rather than a living faith
6. Philosophically what it is
IOFP is eschatological nihilism:
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God already acted
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History is empty
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The cosmos has no destiny
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Meaning is over
It is Christianity after transcendence has been removed.
In one sentence
Israel-Only Full Preterism is the belief that Christianity ended in 70 CE and we are living in a spiritually post-apocalyptic world with no redemption left.
If you want, I can explain how this connects to: Q-style apocalypticism, internet radicalization, or why Christianity keeps producing “end-of-meaning” theologies
Are the IOFP atheists today?
In practice? Many of them function very much like atheists — even if they don’t call themselves that.
IOFP creates a strange category:
theism without transcendence
Here’s what that means.
1. What IOFP technically affirms
Most Israel-Only Full Preterists will still say:
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God existed
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Jesus was the Messiah
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Biblical events were real
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The resurrection (of Israel) happened in 70 CE
So on paper they are not atheists.
2. What they deny that makes them functionally atheistic
They deny:
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any future divine action
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any ongoing salvation
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any living covenant
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any cosmic purpose
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any prayer that changes anything
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any ultimate justice
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any final meaning
God becomes:
a figure who finished acting 2,000 years ago and then withdrew forever
That is almost indistinguishable from:
God does not exist
for everyday life.
3. No worship, no prayer, no hope
In IOFP:
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Worship is pointless
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Evangelism is meaningless
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Prayer has no function
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The church is an error
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History has no divine direction
So spiritually:
the universe is closed
Which is exactly how atheism views it.
4. Why many drift into explicit atheism
Once someone accepts:
“God finished His work and left”
the next step is:
“Maybe God was just a story people told about history.”
IOFP is often a way station between evangelicalism and secularism.
5. The psychological pattern
IOFP often attracts people who:
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feel betrayed by Christianity
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are angry at churches
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want intellectual control
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want to be “the ones who figured it out”
It offers:
total deconstruction without emotional vulnerability
But it also leaves:
no transcendence
And humans don’t live long without transcendence.
Bottom line
IOFP is not formally atheism — but it is spiritually equivalent to it.
It leaves you in:
a universe where nothing sacred remains to be done
Which is exactly what atheism asserts.
If you want, I can show how this compares to:
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nihilism
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Buddhism
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or why mystical traditions survive where IOFP collapses
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