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Well, you know why it's so quiet on TT all of a
sudden, don't you?
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re:
[TruthTalk] Fw: NT Wright - Farewell to the Rapture
Does this mean we can't pull rapture jokes on
people anymore. You know, invite them over for dinner, leave the front door
open, leave piles of clothes in strategic spots, make it look like you were in
the middle of cooking dinner/setting the table when you
disappeared.....
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 1:44
PM
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re:
[TruthTalk] Fw: NT Wright - Farewell to the Rapture
You too? We can always return
to DV.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:29
PM
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re:
[TruthTalk] Fw: NT Wright - Farewell to the Rapture
Actually, I'm 'bout to use up the
alphabet!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: May 01, 2005 14:19
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re:
[TruthTalk] Fw: NT Wright - Farewell to the Rapture
Everybody needs Plan B!
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
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'.
----- Original Message -----
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?
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