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To: The Citizen Soldier
More likely, just a missing bead on his abacus.

LOL, The reason I asked the question about the Camping error being due to replacement theology, which I believed myself for about 35 years BTW, is because IMHO it clouds the Bible's holistic story about Our Lord Jesus Christ.

In my experience my understanding about end times, such as it is, came about when I decided to give up my former antisemitism and ask the Holy Spirit, Why all this stuff about Israel in the Bible?

My Faith journey has taken me from about 35 years of amill to 1 year of pre-trib to about 20 years of premill. This is hard to understand since I am only about 25 years old.

295 posted on 05/13/2011 7:14:26 AM PDT by marbren
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To: marbren
Mind fart correction 32 amill 22 premill.
297 posted on 05/13/2011 7:20:07 AM PDT by marbren
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To: marbren
When I hear Camping speak I often recall something an evangelist I once heard said: "Heresy is truth out of balance."

The problem with Camping and his ilk is that over time they have to be more and more "out there" in order to stay relevant. From all I've read, Camping was fairly mainstream albeit with a strong Calvinist leading, which inevitably leads to a fatalistic view. He's gradually moved from any accountability and gotten himself further and further out on a limb, with no one to help him down out of the tree.

Here's my real point... after 63 years, I've learned that what God wants is a relationship (Romans 5:8!). I've left all of the pre-trib, post-trib, and a thousand other theological explanations and just live every day thankful that the Creator of the universe WANTS to have a personal relationship with me.

I think God approaching Adam and Eve after their sin speaks to what God truly wants from us ...dependence on Him.

I'll leave the preaching to the preachers; many, like Camping, who serve to make the simple complex and I'll just continue to be thankful that God makes it all so simple.

298 posted on 05/13/2011 10:35:01 AM PDT by The Citizen Soldier (I will always remember exactly where I was when Obama made his NCAA picks.)
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