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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [TruthTalk] Fw:
NT Wright - Farewell to the Rapture
The NYTimes reported a year or two back that
Dr.(?) LaHaye received $45,000,000 for his next co-written trilogy. His great,
great, great, great, great, great .....grandchildren may benefit
'greatly'.
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Sent: May 01, 2005 13:41
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: NT
Wright - Farewell to the Rapture
They take pretty good care of their lawns,
houses, cars, fingernails, and RRSPs too.
I think the imminent and total destruction of
the earth (according to the premil dispensationalist view) is just a
convenient excuse for not doing what is really hard to do. Not caring for the earth follows from the premil dispensationalist
package (of which the rapture is only a part and which relies on more
Scripture than those verses in Thessalonians, as I'm sure Wright knows) in
much the same way that lack of interest in evangelism follows from
inclusivism; that is to say, not as a necessary logical consequence but
because there is a handy rationalization available. Fortunately,
some believe in taking care of the earth because it is from
God and beautiful and real and because he told us to; and some believe
in spreading the Good News for the same reasons.
Any of us who are not premil dispensationalists
ought to be asking ourselves whether we are doing any better at caring for
the earth.
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 11:51
AM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: NT
Wright - Farewell to the Rapture
'dualism'
entails worshippng two opposite deities as equals; e.g. 'any moment
rapturists' pouring money into institutional
church/monument/cathedrals to function as worship art (to worship) in
perpetuity (for centuries to come)
Lance Muir wrote:
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..is not the Left Behind mentality in thrall to a
dualistic view of reality that allows people to pollute God's world on
the grounds that it's all going to be destroyed
soon?
