“And that His second “coming” [or subsequent “coming”, or however one wants to try to dance around the plain meaning of that word] would also be “in the flesh”, or they wouldn’t be Christians, would they???”
Maybe you’re not really being intellectually dishonest after all. Maybe you’re just really that ignorant of Scripture.
Oh like this Scripture from II Peter 3:
"1This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.
[And just how are you preterists doing with those prophets that told of the return of the land of promise to the people of Israel when the Messiah returns]
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the new testament.
[Isn't that a perfect description of replacementarians and preterists who do nothing with their daily life but scoff at dispensationalists who look of the Lord's return]
"For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
[Wow -- could that have been an earlier "dispensation", you know, one of those things that preterists scoff at and anathematize dispensationalists for believing in]
"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
[Adam sure found that out when he died physically in year 935 of his life not day one -- but preterists can't count that high, so a Millenium is beyond their understanding]
"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
[Perhaps that long-suffering is directed toward preterists, replacementarians in hopes that they too will come to repentance for their scoffing and neo-Gnostic fables]
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat" [II Peter 3]
How are you doing with that "looking for and hasting" part?????????
Is that a description of the preterist manner of life, or are they too caught up in your scoffing and fables about their 70 AD ethereal coming to face the facts of the real coming just ahead???.