....from another thread....
Posted by maestro to F15Eagle
On News/Activism ^ 12/04/2005 3:59:19 PM PST · 11 of 39 ^
...Lewis'.....'Narnia'....is the GNOSTIC 'good-evil' kingdoms (light/darkness) nonsense,...with 'OBL-as the Lion'....
This anti-real-Jesus-LAMB.....gnostic nonsense to deceive millions....
It is NOT christian,....but it is REALLY.....Pro-Islamic!
Jesus is coming to RAPTURE the Church,.....NOT the kingdom!!!!
Romans 10:17
Are those your silly comments, or someone else's?
What a ridiculous angle to take. Chronicles does not pretend to be an alternative path. It is a ~story~ that uses Christian ~metaphor~ to explore a theme.
Yeesh.
Jesus is coming to RAPTURE the Church,.....NOT the kingdom!!!! The stupidity of some posters knows no bounds. There is NO biblical evidence, nor historical evidence (including the artful constructs of "pseudo Ephraem") for any Christian anywhere, anytime, looking for a "secret rapture."
If you want to be a dispensationalist and buy into a weird system of doctrine that no one believed or even heard of before Charles Darby in the 1830s, and which came from a charismatic milkmaid named Margaret McDonald in an Irvingite service (Edward Irving was a heretical presbyterian who became charismatic. Darby had connections with him and there is good solid evidence that he got the doctrine of a secret rapture from his contacts there), then be my guest.
However, to deride something as "NOT christian" because it doesn't conform to such a doctrine, is idiotic, and so stupid that only in American fundamentalism would it be tolerated.
You sir, are a nitwit.
The metaphorical use of a lion in Lewis's fiction has precedent in God's self-revelation in the actual world (cf. the Lion of Judah).
You evidently have not troubled to read the books, since you ignore Lewis's return to the Lamb as a metaphorical image of Christ at the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and the fact (not lost on the secularist left's critic whose piece this thread discusses) that the Calormenes are thinly disguised Muslims, who, in concert with Narnian secularists put up the Narnian Antichrist.
Don't know what book YOU were reading,but that doesn't describe ANY of the Narnia books.