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Sheep Go to Heaven, Goats Go to Hell: An Examination of the Elect & Reprobate

Sheep Go to Heaven, Goats Go to Hell: An Examination of the Elect & Reprobate

SheepIn a world obsessed with fairness, Sheep Go to Heaven, Goats Go to Hell dares to confront the uncomfortable truth of divine distinction. Drawing from Scripture rather than sentiment, Roderick Edwards explores the biblical pattern of election and reprobation — the mystery of why some are drawn to the Shepherd while others remain in rebellion. Through chapters on Distinctions, The Gospel Invitation, Supralapsarianism, Bondage & Freedom of the Will, The Will of God, Emotional Will, and The Calvinist Trap Edwards dismantles modern emotionalism and humanistic theology, revealing a God who acts first, acts decisively, and acts sovereignly. This book is not a defense of Calvinism or Arminianism — it is a defense of Scripture itself. It challenges readers to see salvation not as a human choice but as a divine revelation. If you’ve ever wrestled with questions of freewill, predestination, or the justice of God, this book will not soothe you — it will awaken you.

Sheep Go to Heaven, Goats Go to Hell: An Examination of the Elect & Reprobate concludes with the same clarity that began it — the distinction between those drawn by the Shepherd and those left to their own will. Every chapter has traced the divine logic behind that separation: from the nature of regeneration and the bondage of the will, to the threefold expression of God’s will and the modern distortion of emotionalism. This book is not a manifesto for any denomination or theologian. It is a call to return to the biblical pattern of divine initiative. It reminds the reader that salvation is not a negotiation between God and man but a revelation of God’s mercy and justice. The sheep and goats are not metaphors for moral performance; they are identities revealed by divine sovereignty. The Gospel Invitation, the struggle of the will, the mystery of election, and the paradox of freedom all converge here — in the recognition that God’s will is not thwarted by human sentiment. Those who read this book will not find comfort in human fairness but assurance in divine faithfulness. The Shepherd knows His own. The distinction is His to make.


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Why Islam Is Different

Islam"Why Islam Is Different Than Other Religions is not a book of slogans, apologetics, or fear.
It is a forensic examination of an idea—one that has shaped civilizations for fourteen centuries and continues to influence global politics, culture, and conflict today. Drawing from historical sources, psychological analysis, and the Qur’an’s own internal structure, Roderick Edwards traces how a message that began in a cave transformed into a system that reshaped continents.

Across its pages, Edwards demonstrates how Islam’s evolution from Mecca to Medina created a uniquely political and expansionary religious framework—one that differs fundamentally from Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and every other major tradition. As the book states plainly, “Islam is different than other religions because it is presented through violence”—a conclusion reached only after hundreds of pages of historical evidence and textual comparison.

This is not a book that flatters, softens, or sanitizes. It is a book that insists on clarity in an age of euphemism. Whether you agree with Edwards or not, you will leave these pages with a deeper understanding of Islam’s origins, its internal contradictions, its civilizational impact, and the modern ideological struggle between Western pluralism and Islamic absolutism.

Islam, Muslims, & Muhammad!

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For readers who value truth over comfort, history over slogans, and evidence over sentiment, this book is an essential addition to the conversation.
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Partial Preterism vs Full Preterism

PreteristWhat if everything you’ve been told about preterism—its origins, its development, its boundaries—has been filtered, softened, or rewritten?
And what if the real story exposes a fault line running straight through modern theology?

Partial Preterism vs. Full Preterism is the first book to cut through the noise, the labels, the online debates, and the AI‑generated “balanced takes,” delivering a first‑hand, insider account of how the preterist movement actually formed, fractured, and evolved.
Drawing from over 15 years inside Full Preterism, direct interaction with its leaders, and deep historical research—including the pivotal but often ignored 1993 Mt. Dora Symposium—Roderick Edwards reveals:
Why modern Partial Preterism didn’t grow into Full Preterism… but was created in reaction to it
How the Creeds became the dividing line between orthodoxy and theological collapse
Why AI, Wikipedia, and curated online theology are quietly reshaping the debate
How the preterist movement emerged far later than its advocates claim
Why the future of Christian eschatology may depend on recovering the real history
This is not another proof‑text book. It’s not a polemic disguised as scholarship.
It is the documented story of a movement, told by someone who lived inside it, left it, and now exposes its internal logic, its hidden assumptions, and its unavoidable consequences.
Whether you’re a pastor, a student of theology, a curious skeptic, or someone caught between the “partial” and “full” camps, this book gives you what no AI model, no Wikipedia page, and no online debate ever will:
The unfiltered history. The real distinctions. The stakes.
If you want to understand preterism—not the myth, not the marketing, but the movement itself—start here.


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How To Leave Preterism

Leaving preterism isn’t just a doctrinal shift—it’s a psychological and spiritual reawakening.

In this bold and unflinching guide, Roderick Edwards—once a committed full preterist for over 15 years—walks readers through the tangled reasoning and emotional dependence that traps people in this fringe eschatology. With decades of firsthand experience, Edwards helps readers understand why preterism appeals, why it fails, and how to move beyond it.

This is not another academic proof-text exchange. This is a lifeline for anyone trying to escape or help someone else break free from the theological echo chamber of preterism.

Whether you’re ready to leave, skeptical of this book, or helping someone else recover their faith, you’ll find practical insights, historical perspective, and raw honesty.
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The Complete Guide on Preterism

This is the complete 5-book series on preterism written by Roderick Edwards between 2017-2024.
PRETERISM simply defined is the belief that most, if not all of the end times prophecies related in the Bible were fulfilled by the year AD70 at the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
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Preterism From The Beginning

Preterism"The 5th and final book in the series of books on preterism by Roderick Edwards who was a full-preterist for over 15 years and has over 30 years experience in the preterist movement. If you want to understand this endtimes theological view that advocates Jesus already came back, this series of books will take you through its history and development, even naming names of the major players. This final book addresses the effects preterism has on the "first things"; the beginning accounts of the Bible such as the creation, Adam and Eve, the Fall, the Flood and more.
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Historical Christianity

AncientHistorical Christianity -- The Ancient Communal Faith is not merely another theology book but is the book you've been waiting for to cut through all the platitudes and self-serving egotism you have experienced when trying to understand the history of the Christian Faith. You may have spent your entire life trying to find "the truth", or you are just beginning to look into this religion thing. Either way, Roderick Edwards' over 50 years of dedication to critical research of topics as controversial as How to Overthrow a Government to books on race relations allows you to finally get to the bottom of what it means to be a Christian. This isn't a lecture or a sermon book but is a no nonsense deconstruction of the moving parts. Roderick's data analyst background is applied to every chapter. You'll come out the other side knowing more and being more confident than when you started.



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How to Debate a Preterist: An Apologetics Handbook

Debate"HOW TO DEBATE A PRETERIST is book 4 of the Preterism Series and is the 30+ year, field tested apologetics book every layman and clergy Christian needs if and when they encounter a preterist; online or in their church or at a coffee shop. Preterism is the heresy in the 21st century church just as much as Arianism in 3-4th century. Allowing it to fester or pretending preterists are "brothers" in the communal faith of historical Christianity invites the Trojan Horse into the walls. This book provides multiple methods to debate a preterist so that you can tailor your style as well as giving the reader a lengthy list of debate examples. This book will prepare you not only for specific preterist arguments but also against the overall premises of preterism.



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Answering Preterism is a 5-book series for serious students of Bible prophecy!

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Pret-series"

Preterism is the belief that the Bible teaches Jesus already came back and that most if not all of the attending events happened in the first century. This 4-part series first explains to the reader everything they need to know ABOUT PRETERISM. How and why someone might adopt the view. Its logical arguments. Its biblical arguments. Its history as a theological movement from the late 1800s, to its revival in the 1970s, to its peak in the 1990s, to its current fractured state.

AFTER PRETERISM is book 2 of the series and continues where the first left off. It fills in the hanging questions a reader might have. It answers what happens in the short and long term AFTER someone adopts the preterist view. It gives real-life examples, not speculation or theories. Finally, understand what this theological perspective does to a person's worldview. Vetted by actual current and former preterists, this book is packed with no-nonsense information the reader can't get anyplace else. This is not another debate or refutation book. It is a book for really understanding preterism and the effects of believing, practicing, and advocating it.

AGAINST PRETERISM is book 3 in the series and follows along nicely to help explain why all forms of preterism should be rejected, not only by Christians but by non-Christians as well. Taking a new approach, rather than the typical proof-texting battle, this book is the one to "end debate"...at least from a logical standpoint.

HOW TO DEBATE A PRETERIST is book 4 and is the 30+ year, field tested apologetics book every layman and clergy Christian needs if and when they encounter a preterist; online or in their church or at a coffee shop. Preterism is the heresy in the 21st century church just as much as Arianism in 3-4th century. Allowing it to fester or pretending preterists are "brothers" in the communal faith of historical Christianity invites the Trojan Horse into the walls. This book provides multiple methods to debate a preterist so that you can tailor your style as well as giving the reader a lengthy list of debate examples. This book will prepare you not only for specific preterist arguments but also against the overall premises of preterism.

PRETERISM FROM THE BEGINNING is book 5 and takes the reader back to start not only of preterism as a word, as belief, and a movement but also to the start of many first things bible doctrines and how preterism affects those doctrines. What does a belief in preterism do to the idea of creation, of Adam and Eve as the first created humans, to the concept of original sin, to the Flood account, and many other foundational doctrines.
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After Preterism: Answering the What Now Question

Preterist View

AFTER PRETERISM is the long-awaited sequel to the highly successfully book, About Preterism. After Preterism explores what happens after someone believes, practices, and advocates this endtimes view that claims Jesus already came back in the first century.

Following actual current and former preterists as they explain how they entered into the preterist movement and how some of them moved beyond it. The effects of being an adherent and leaving the view behind.


AFTER PRETERISM is written for people that already know what preterism is about, however any person with a little Bible knowledge can pick up without having to read the first book. But why not get ABOUT PRETERISM as well? The author specifically keeps the costs to a minimum.


Bandersnatch Jesus

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BANDERSNATCH JESUS, a book that allows the reader to go back in time and make different choices...choices that would change the world. Be there the moment Adam was about to eat the forbidden fruit. Decide what Noah does after the Flood. Decide if Jesus' disciples' free him before his crucifixion. You decide it all!


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About Preterism: The Book

Preterist

After spending 15 years in the preterist movement and then leaving it in 2007 to become as Sam Frost once said; "the most hated person" by preterists, Roderick Edwards has finally produced the perfect introductory book for anyone who is interested in learning more about the movement and its concepts.

This no holds-barred, non-polemic, non-slanderous review will allow the reader to better understand how someone becomes a preterist and why. This is a must book for anyone engaging not only with preterists but in any theological discussion.


Learn about this theological perspective before it comes to your church or ministry. While it can stimulate discussion, it can also be a grave damage to any congregation. Historically, simply dismissing something like preterism as "heresy" only causes people to become more curious. Understand why and how anyone could conclude that "Jesus already came back" -- the main tenet of preterism.



Read this short, direct book by a FORMER preterist as he explains it in brutal honesty, even naming names so that you can decide best how to deal with this theological view WHEN it comes to your ministry.
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