Preterist offers "resources to help you become a heretic". I then offer much more for that project.

re "I can only speak for myself and say that realizing that Jesus did exactly what he said he would do exactly when he said he would do it has only served to make my faith stronger and make the Bible finally make sense."​ - @kristinbingamon568  ---- My thoughts: I can tell you are a sweet and gentle soul. I am not trying to hassle you about your beliefs. But if you're open to hearing a different set of understandings about it, I would offer this: Bible scholars say the stories about Jesus were all written decades (in some cases, nearly a century) after Jesus died. They don't think eyewitnesses (nor earwitnesses) wrote any of it. It's all just rumors and legends circulating in a primitive culture until anonymous men eventually wrote down some versions of the stories they heard. Those men probably embellished those stories further. Even the stuff about specific events like the temple being destroyed were almost certainly written during and after those events; and then pre-dated to make them read like prophecies. You are free to 'take it on faith' that a real "Jesus" (a common name which was just a variation of the name Joshua) said and did what bible-gossip says he said and did. But I don't see how anyone can just 'not notice' that the Jesus character in bible stories predicted the literal end of the world would happen in his then-current followers' lifetime. I don't see how anyone can just 'not notice' that this world (chalked full of heathens) still exists. Just as importantly: What the Hebrew religion's "messiah" was supposed to be and do... is what Jesus failed to be and do. He didn't fulfill a single Hebrew messianic prophecy. Meanwhile, "as written", he was born into Judaism, raised in that religion, and stayed in Judaic religion for his entire life. He spoke only about a hope for those who were part of ethno-religious Judaism. None of his Super-Dad's coming kingdom was for other religions or ethnicities. Although, he eventually moved into an obscure sect of Judaism (reasonably, this could be regarded as an occult cult; as they claimed special revelation of hidden spiritual truths, as revealed through their leaders). That sect had secret beliefs that only trusted members were allowed to find out about. This is plainly stated in gospel stories. This is partly why we shouldn't be surprised that there is no record of what those secret beliefs were. Also, there was no reason to write anything down (at the time) because his cult believed the end of the world was about to happen. So there wouldn't be any future generations of struggling believers to leave anything for. In the end, per the stories, "Jesus" lost his life to mental illness; when the voices in his head (the voice of his Cosmic Dad) pressured him (against his will) into getting himself intentionally un-alived. In other words, * a schizophrenic religious fundamentalist in the Iron Age, * as a leading member of a "mystery cult", * committed the most severe form of self-abuse and self-destruction he could think of; * to prove himself worthy of a Father's acceptance, * and to satisfy his own messianic complex, *and to satisfy his own martyr complex, * and thus to also prove to his friends how supremely pious, * and thus worthy (also) of their religion's esteem. All of Christianity's ideas about "why he had to die" are post hoc rationalizations, built upon that cult's efforts to turn **failed prophetic beliefs** into "victory" by giving new "spiritual" meaning to originally literal (and ultimately failed) predictions.