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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?
