Posted on 01/09/2012 1:26:46 PM PST by mnehring
That pretty much sums up my exact feelings in a clearer way than I stated before. And this ignorance is coming right from our theology schools.
As a Catholic, I am not a Dispensationalist. I think that the gentleman (using the term loosely) is being unkind. While I do not believe as you do, and may likely from time to time have a civil argument with folks, there’s no sense in engaging in mockery. And that’s what this guy’s doing.
It is a shame that he is apparently being tolerated for that sort of stuff. Can you affect this by contacting his superiors?
And really, when it comes to Israel, it’s a civilized country, a parliamentary democracy in the midst of a sea of nastiness. They’re our allies. As such, we should support them. The Palestinians came back, largely, when an opportunity to take become “victims” coincided with being pushed out of Jordan and elsewhere. The islamists believe that if islam rules over a place once, that it must always rule over it. Waffleheads.
Oh man, I thought this was going to be about sci-fi authors and their theology, which would have been cool. Ah well.
Freegards
This was just an example I was using for discussion. One of the things that concerns me is this seems to be more common of an attitude coming from theology schools, even ones we consider Conservative. Liberal agendas are tempering faith. Like this author, they mock Right leaning Christians on everything from environmental issues to the death penalty and international affairs. Worse, they are coming out of these schools not just with these thoughts, but as liberal activists who are going after Christians politically.
The person I got this from is a liberal whose son just graduated w/ a PhD in Theology from Wake Forest and will be teaching at a Conservative Bible College. This guy is far more of a liberal activist than he is a Christian leader, yet he will be 'training' future Christian leaders.
Maybe next time (that would be cool).
About the only thing you wrote that I agree with is that Camping is a screwball.
I don’t believe the Bible teaches a “Rapture” or that God gives a rip about Israel, at least no more than anyone else. Dispensationalism and all its tenets, e.g., end times tribulation, Rapture, physical Israel being God’s people, etc. is not Biblical. It is the result of the fevered imaginations of Montanus, Darby, Scofield, Lyndsey, and a bunch of other nitwits.
If your going to accept the Bible as God’s word, adopt a reasonable, rational (I don’t mean materialistic) interpretation of it. Dispensational Premillinnialism is just plain dumb.
That's reasonable...God was made in our image...It only makes sense that God's ways are our ways and that we have the power to control our own destiny...
God wouldn't write anything that a natural, rational, logical mind couldn't figure out...
The author should have at least read past chapter one:
Gen 3:17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
Gen 3:18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."
LOL ;)
I knew the article would be liberal neo-orthodox nonsense as soon as I read this in the third paragraph. Anybody who's studied the issue knows that "most scholars" are all over the board when it comes to the eschatology of Revelation. What he really saying is "since all the smart people agree with me then everybody else is just stupid." Just another phony trying to use Christianity to push a liberal agenda.
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