What is anachronism?
Anachronism is the representation of something as existing or happening at other than its proper or historical time, or anything out of its proper time. This is the case with Dispensational Christianity. They will take a Biblical subject, and its subjects, and place them in a time frame totally alienated from what is being re presented. There are Scriptures in the Bible that can never be misconstrued or misunderstood of whom or where the Bible is talking to or about. Let us begin to give concise and clear example in which the reader, even the simplest Biblical student, can rightly divide the Word. First, lets look at the method of interpretation by audience relevance. When Jesus spoke, to whom was He speaking to? 1.) Matt 16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. It is overwhelmingly obvious that Jesus is not speaking to me, but to those around Him that were standing right there. This is
It’s defined as “a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other.” Basically, for the purposes of this discussion, it’s anything in a story that does not belong, that jars your reader out of setting and narrative and character. How does it manifest itself in fantasy writing? For the sake of simplicity, I’ll say that the anachronistic mistakes I’ve seen made by beginning writers fall into one of three categories: worldbuilding, language, and dialogue, both internal and external. In terms of worldbuilding, authors need to be careful that they don’t establish a level of technology for one aspect of their story, and then undermine that decision by establishing a different level of technology for another. For instance, I’ve read stories (excellent in most other ways) that have characters using medieval weaponry, but then taking hot showers. I’ve seen authors write about preindustrial societies that have electricity or steam power. Sorry, folks, but
