I certainly don't think there are any simple answers to what's going on in the Middle East at the moment, but one thing I'm sure of: this doesn't help at all.
Still, it's all too common within some Christian circles. Particularly those that hold to a dispensationalist premillennialism, or are influenced by media of that vein such as books - fiction/non-fiction, study guides, film, music and radio/tv programmes. (And don't forget the linking of your own nation to God's chosen which helps put you in the right.)
I think it's probably as much the church not teaching eschatology, as the materials listed above that drives it.
Yes, I agree - I think Christians are very vulnerable to such views because they aren't given convincing alternatives. Thanks for the link - interesting!
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No, I don't think it helps at all. *weep*
Still, it's all too common within some Christian circles. Particularly those that hold to a dispensationalist premillennialism, or are influenced by media of that vein such as books - fiction/non-fiction, study guides, film, music and radio/tv programmes. (And don't forget the linking of your own nation to God's chosen which helps put you in the right.)
I think it's probably as much the church not teaching eschatology, as the materials listed above that drives it.
By the way you might be interested in this article on rapture theology as legitimized Harry Potter for conservative Christians.
http://www.westmont.edu/~work/articles/tribulation.html
Yes, I agree - I think Christians are very vulnerable to such views because they aren't given convincing alternatives. Thanks for the link - interesting!
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