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Post by stephenpatrick on Nov 8, 2008 19:28:20 GMT -5
Good evening everybody, Maybe some folks here have already seen this. Just a little humor . . . . from the website, gloomywood.blogspot.com/2008/05/top-10-reasons-dispensationalist-did.htmlTop 10 Reasons Why the Dispensationalist Did Not Cross the Road 10. Thought he would be raptured before he got there anyway. 9. Thought that the other side was for ‘Israel’, and this side was for the ‘church’. 8. Charles Ryrie was still on this side of the road. 7. Thought it was pointless since Jesus was just going to bring him back after 7 years. 6. Like the OT prophets and the church age, he was unable to see the other side. 5. He was afraid that if he went, there would be nothing to restrain the man of lawlessness. 4. He was not a part of the dispensation of ‘crossing’. 3. Dallas Theological Seminary hadn’t yet published anything telling him how to do it. 2. Thought there was a two thousand foot gap between the 69th and 70th step. 1. By taking a consistently literal approach, he thought that ‘cross the road’ meant something about the crucifixion. |
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Post by Allyn on Nov 9, 2008 9:03:30 GMT -5
Tooo funny - true, but funny.
Thanks for sharing.
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Post by phil on Nov 9, 2008 10:47:51 GMT -5
ROFL!
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Post by MoGrace2U on Nov 9, 2008 18:02:03 GMT -5
I just learned today that ole Tommy Ice teaches that the falling away of 2 Thes 2 is the departure of the saints (rapture)! Which no doubt explains their confusion as they turn the scripture upside down to make their doctrine fit into it. So the ones taken at the coming of the Lord by the judgment, must also be the "raptured saints"?
Who else could be so insidious than the devil to make people think a judgment coming upon them was for their deliverance? Except perhaps a Jew who had the guilt of the body and blood of the Lord upon his head. Yet these Pharisees who have persisted into our day are doing just that to Christians who listen to them. Trying to convince them that Jesus really didn't accomplish the things they say Messiah must do for them. And they have them finding ways to make it so.
How perverse can Dispensationalism get? Will they say Jesus is accursed? I have heard a few recently who are saying just that - that God poured out His wrath upon Him. I guess the Jews must not have done anything...
Sorry, but laughter was not my response today.
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Post by stephenpatrick on Nov 10, 2008 10:18:35 GMT -5
Good morning,
I know what you mean MoGrace2U.
I also know I was in that camp at one time. Whatever the current ramblings of Lindsey said I bought into. He never, in all of his books presented a truthful representation of preterism. Whenever the term preterist, partial preterist, any other estachological viewpoint that rubbed against my cherished end times beliefs were made available to me I shut down. I couldn't even think of reading about it. My mind could/would not comprehend anything that would or could detract from the return of Jesus as I had been taught. The inability to process new, and possibly damaging information to dispensationalism kept me from investigating or studying another interpretation of the Bible texts. Even though there were verses that did not make sense with their teaching, they were the experts and knew more than I did.
I don't know what it was that got me to look into other teachings on the subject other than the continued updating whenever history took a different turn. Jesus still hadn't come back and that was 25 years later.
So, I know and understand what you mean . . . , there really isn't anything funny about Left Behind theology.
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Post by Paul Kelly on Nov 10, 2008 14:07:42 GMT -5
2. Thought there was a two thousand foot gap between the 69th and 70th step.  |
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Post by MoGrace2U on Nov 10, 2008 16:35:01 GMT -5
Hi StephenPatrick,
I think what got me looking at their doctrines was the PFRS.org site that was post trib/chilliast and had a debate with Tommy Ice. His argument had a lot of holes in it as I tried to follow his position. But it wasn't long before I saw that PFRS had just as many. Which got me to investigate Revelation on my own. It was about then that somebody pointed out how to search out the symbolism, not by speculation but from the OT. That was what made the difference for me. And seeing that speculation was carnal eisegesis not exegesis of what the text had to say. Once I determined that Christ was what I wanted to know and let the scripture speak to me about Him, preterism is what I found.
But it ain't over yet, and no doubt there is even more to find along the way.
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