Seems that Harold Camping, who has done this before, is trying to one up the Mayans for the date of the End of the World.
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Oct 13 2009
The Rapture will take place in 2012
I would seriously be scared, you know, if I didn’t know what the bible says, didn’t have common sense, and didn’t know Jack’s record on biblical prophecy and his ingenious schemes for making money.
Sep 20 2009
This Blog is Ending on September 21
My first thought was of Bitsy, who surely brought this on. Then I thought that ‘Hey, I have books in the mail – they had best get here soon.’ Then I became worried, because I am running a blog-a-thon and contest on the 22nd. How unfair is that – that the Rapture happens before the day of my blog tour?
Anyone, be warned, while it might not come exactly on the 21nd, it is coming this Fall.
Jul 19 2009
Articles on Christian Identity
JB at The White Report has posted two new articles on the Christian Identity Movement. They are dated, but due to a recent rise of inane comments on Twitter, Facebook, etc… the ideas of this group seem to be spreading.
Anyway, the articles are here and here.
Although the Christian Identity movement is outside the mainstream of Christianity, it does serve as an affront to Christianity. It bothers me, quickly, when someone comes preaching that garbage on this site, and it gets my temper rising fast. If you visit the comments on the posts about Arnold Murray, you will note that my temper flies very fast, so forgive that, but bare in mind, we all have faults.
I am filing it under Arnie M because he is one of the most well known hatemongers out there.
Apr 21 2009
Leaving Behind 'Left Behind'
You may disagree in a few things, but give it a look anyway,
This is an extended version of part of a lecture I gave on Revelation today. I thought it was old news, but apparently it is not, if student reaction is any indicator.
Problems with the Left Behind Series
Hermeneutical (Interpretive)
- This series is not really fiction but a combination of theology and “proleptic documentary,” like an advance DVD, because it sees biblical “prophecy” as “history written in advance” (Left Behind, p. 214). The correspondence between the books and the commentary by LaHayve and Jenkins (Revelation Unveiled) is revealing, but not surprising.
- It treats the Bible as a puzzle to be pieced together into a script about the future, with various texts from various books taken out of context and linked to current or expected current events. The method has sometimes been called biblical “hopscotch,” and the result is a patchwork quilt with scenes from Revelation as the most prominent and thematic aspect of the quilt.
- It claims to be literal but is not or is only selectively so. A better description would be correlative (as opposed to literal or analogical).
- It misunderstands the nature and function of both prophetic and apocalyptic literature, and it grossly misinterprets certain key texts. Prophetic is not merely predictive, and apocalyptic is heavily symbolic. It is more like a series of political cartoons than a documentary.
- It finds aspects of the second coming that are not in the Bible—e.g., two comings of Jesus, a rapture in Revelation.
- It imposes a foreign, 19th-century theological, interpretive construct onto the ancient biblical texts: dispensationalism.
- It assumes that we are on the brink of the rapture and tribulation, and that is really all that matters.
Mar 26 2009
Jonathan Falwell says that the signs point to the Rapture
Jonathan Falwell Steps Up
Jonathan Falwell, one of the late Jerry Falwell’s sons, is now the senior pastor at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, the church his father founded several decades ago. In a recent e-mail, Falwell appears to be picking up his dad’s political mantle as well, as he has leaped aboard the Armageddon bandwagon, warning that The Rapture and End Times could be just around the corner:
“The New Testament leaves us with the anticipation that Jesus could come at any time.”
Those are the words of Dr. Ed Hindson, spoken at a stirring “Global Warning Prophecy Conference” hosted by Thomas Road Baptist Church last week. The conference also included Drs. Tim LaHaye and Gary Frazier.
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Aug 08 2008
W.Va. offers licenses for those who fear ‘beast’
WorldWide Religious News-W.Va. offers licenses for those who fear ‘beast’.
“W.Va. offers licenses for those who fear ‘beast’”
(AP, August 8, 2008)
Charleston, USA – West Virginia started Friday keeping driver’s license photos out of a computer database for members of a small religious group who believe digital storage is a “mark of the beast” that evokes biblical prophecy.
State Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Joseph Cicchirillo said the group of about 50 or 60 Christians, who are not affiliated with a particular church, contacted the agency two or three years ago to object to their pictures “being on a database that can be exchanged throughout the world or hacked into.”
One of the group members is Phil Hudok, who made headlines in 1999 when he was fired as a Randolph County school teacher for refusing to require his students to wear bar-coded identification badges. Hudok was later reinstated after a circuit judge said the school board had made no attempt to accommodate his religious beliefs.
Hudok and other members of his group have said bar codes and digital storage of photos are a way of numbering people, which they liken to a warning in the Bible’s book of Revelation about a “mark of the beast” indicating the arrival of the Antichrist.
To accommodate their beliefs, state officials decided to issue driver’s licenses to the group members that are exactly like other West Virginia licenses except that the individual photos will be removed from the computer immediately after they are taken by a digital camera.
Instead of being stored digitally, an 8-by-11-inch hard copy of each picture will be printed out and kept in a file. All other information, including birth dates and driving records, will be in the computer system, Cicchirillo said.
Without this accommodation, group members wouldn’t get their driver’s licenses, which the commissioner said would hamper their ability to get everyday services from insurance coverage to check cashing.
West Virginia adopted digital photo storage several years ago, in advance of the federal Real ID Act. The law, which has an implementation date of 2010, would establish national standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards and enable the sharing of information about licensed drivers among all states.
Jun 06 2008
Great Posts from Cyberspace
Good information on reading the Greek New Testament here
And how Greek is unique here
Funny joke here (think about it)
Good article about Chinese Nestorian Christianity
Rapture service article here
A ‘new take‘ on Justification
I like this blog, but the article is nice too.
Great article on the NETS (Septuagint, LXX)
Something on bible translation
Here is something on the Stone-Campbell Atonement Theology.
