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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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Original Message -----
..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?
