Post by stephenpatrick on Dec 24, 2008 11:32:14 GMT -5
Good morning,
Reading through a thread over at CARM I came across this response from Sower.
www.christiandiscussionforums.org/v/showpost.php?p=3201841&postcount=3
The first century saints believed the above and knew the Coming of the Lord was soon. That can be seen in their actions, they sold their possessions, homes, and land (Acts 4:32-34), obviously they knew they would not need them in the future.
Futurist claim the Lord is coming soon, but their actions deny their words. They are buying possessions, homes, lands, stocks, bonds, life and health insurance, all in anticipation of future need. Go figure!
Lady Sower~
This was something that always troubled me. The majority of those who attended the large church our family use to belong to were all pretty wealthy. We continually had conferences on investing your money biblically(?). We had many prophecy conferences which told of the signs we are seeing pointing to the return. Yet our church continued to spend and build and the missions budget continued to flounder.
How come the financial lifestyle of the futurist does not match up to the theology. One of the older couples that were very vocal in the Lord's return and in dispensationalist doctrine, when he retired he purchased lake front property, and built a nice big home. This summer we saw them at an annual Sunday school picnic and he was driving a new Ford Mustang sports car. My wife looked at me and said, "You're right!" It wasn't any different with the others.
Yet according to them, Jesus is coming imminently? That makes no sense, at least to me.
Please understand, I have nothing against someone making a good living at all. Did anybody else ever notice this?
Reading through a thread over at CARM I came across this response from Sower.
www.christiandiscussionforums.org/v/showpost.php?p=3201841&postcount=3
The first century saints believed the above and knew the Coming of the Lord was soon. That can be seen in their actions, they sold their possessions, homes, and land (Acts 4:32-34), obviously they knew they would not need them in the future.
Futurist claim the Lord is coming soon, but their actions deny their words. They are buying possessions, homes, lands, stocks, bonds, life and health insurance, all in anticipation of future need. Go figure!
Lady Sower~
This was something that always troubled me. The majority of those who attended the large church our family use to belong to were all pretty wealthy. We continually had conferences on investing your money biblically(?). We had many prophecy conferences which told of the signs we are seeing pointing to the return. Yet our church continued to spend and build and the missions budget continued to flounder.
How come the financial lifestyle of the futurist does not match up to the theology. One of the older couples that were very vocal in the Lord's return and in dispensationalist doctrine, when he retired he purchased lake front property, and built a nice big home. This summer we saw them at an annual Sunday school picnic and he was driving a new Ford Mustang sports car. My wife looked at me and said, "You're right!" It wasn't any different with the others.
Yet according to them, Jesus is coming imminently? That makes no sense, at least to me.
Please understand, I have nothing against someone making a good living at all. Did anybody else ever notice this?
