[TruthTalk] Fw: NT Wright - Farewell to the Rapture

Wed, 04 May 2005 10:38:39 -0700

Well, you know why it's so quiet on TT all of a sudden,  don't you?
 
Go ahead WHY?


Debbie Sawczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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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.....
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 1:44 PM
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You too? We can always return to DV.
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From: Lance Muir
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:29 PM
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Actually, I'm 'bout to use up the alphabet!
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Sent: May 01, 2005 14:19
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Everybody needs Plan B!
 
Debbie
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Lance Muir
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:02 PM
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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
 
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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)
 
On Sun, 01 May 2005 08:46:36 -0500 Terry Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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? 

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