 Kore7 says: Apocolyptic end-times beliefs make for strange bed-fellows between Christian dispensationalists and Israeli Jews despite their highly divergent goals for salvation. A paragraph that wasn't clipped: Reed and Bauer also distance themselves from dispensationalism. "My support for Israel has little or nothing to do with theology of the end times," says Reed. "Evangelicals have a fairly expansive view of God's sovereignty. I believe that he'll be able to work out Israel's role in the end times without our help."The "Left Behind" series has done us no favors here--I understand this. However, those who take their theology from the Bible and not pop Christian fiction will understand the Revelation was written by a ... Hal Lindsey in the Late Great Planet Earth predicted the end for the 1980’s. Billy Graham said in 1950, “We may have a year or two to work for Christ, and then it will be over.” Falwell’s Liberty College spreads the rapture myth. Pat Robertson said in June 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon that Russia would attack Israel and the world would be in flames. “It’s all in the Bible!” The year 2000 produced the Y2K scare and other doom sayers. According to the Christian Right anytime a shot is fired in the middle east it's "Anti-Christ/Rapture Time." Too bad they have their heads so stuck in the clouds they do nothing to practice the teachings of Christ here on earth. Makes me nauseated. According to the Christian Right anytime a shot is fired in the middle east it's "Anti-Christ/Rapture Time."Gross generalization. Obviously not all conservative Christians feel this way, not even half. The Bible clearly states no person will know the appointed time for rapture and/or the end of the world. No one. I'm always amused when evangelical preachers think that somehow that particular passage in the Bible doesn't apply to them and that they somehow have the inside scoop on when it is going to happen. I'll agree with you here. In my experience, I've found the reason why most people refuse to explore or even consider Christianity is.... Christians, or at least watching how people calling themselves Christians act. If the only thing that has changed in your life when you "became a Christian" is the fact that you now mingle with friends at church once a week, and outwardly you still portray all the self-destructive, selfish behaviors as before.... I postulate that you aren't really a Christian and have yet to truly accept Christ into y... Knslyr, I couldn't agree more. Too often I'm one of the ones you are talking about. Well said. According to the Christian Right anytime a shot is fired in the middle east it's "Anti-Christ/Rapture Time." Too bad they have their heads so stuck in the clouds they do nothing to practice the teachings of Christ here on earth. Makes me nauseated.I've got no argument with that. One thing that frustrates me with Christian "leaders" is that they spend way too much time trying to figure out exactly what is going to happen. I wish more Christians could read what you just said. The Bible makes no reference to a "rapture" at all. I meant to include this in my above post..sorry for double-dipping: A startling new angle to the end-time scenario was introduced by John Darby, an ex-Anglican cleric. On several trips to the U.S. from England in the 1850’s, he argued that there would be a secret lifting up of the believers to heaven based on Mt. 24: 40-42; 1 Thess. 4: 16-17 thus escaping the calamities of the end. These passages refer to the parousia. The Left Behind books are based on this false doctrine which is rejected by the Church and most Protestant churches and scholars. I'd agree that the vast majority of Christians and even conservative Christians (right-wing Christian is in my estimation an oxymoron) do not agree with the dispensationalists. But the only important question is whether the "Christian" in the White House feels that way. |
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