Christian Bookstore Won't Stock Latest Left Behind Book
Vancouver, Apr. 7--(RNS) One of the largest Christian bookstores in Canada has refused to stock the latest book in the most popular Christian fiction series of all time, saying it promotes a dangerous worldview that exacerbates global tensions.
Regent College Bookstore, which is affiliated with a world-renowned evangelical graduate school in Vancouver, won't be selling the 12th installment in the phenomenally popular "Left Behind" series, which was released Tuesday across North America to huge fanfare.
The authors of the series, which portrays Americans playing a central role in ushering in a cataclysm that destroys non-Christians, have surpassed mystery writer John Grisham as the best-selling writers of adult fiction in North America.
Although many Christian and mainstream bookstores in Canada have begun to sell the series' final book, "Glorious Appearing," a manager at Regent...
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Mike: From each of half a dozen different jigsaw puzzles, take a only a handful of pieces, then give the mixture of pieces to someone who is skilled in putting together jigsaw puzzles. After studying the pieces you have given him, the man declares that the pieces cannot be assembled into a coherent whole, for they are not pieces of the same puzzle. And the man declares further that anyone is a liar who does claim it possible to assemble the pieces into a coherent whole. Thus it is with the book of Revelation, for the book is not divinely inspired. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to discern this.
How can one who admits no understanding say anyone who claims understanding must be a liar? He has no reference point. He can only say "liar" if he has understanding sufficient to determine the truth or falsehood of another's position.
Cheryl, God's wrath against the Christ-rejecting Jew was vented fully in A.D. 70. Christ Jesus died as covenant sacrifice (KVJ "testator") to institute the New Covenant, in which there is neither Jew nor Gentile. The Old Covenant, being a covenant of marriage, was irreversibly dissolved by death of the husband, Christ Jesus; there shall be no return to it. The special status of the Jew no longer exists.
Devout and competent Christian scholars with a solid understanding of history have admitted their inability to make sense of Revelation; read Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes. Clarke says that he knowns of no man who understands the book, and is so bold as to say that any man who claims to understand it is a liar. He and others recognize that the book is an incoherent patchwork, and that no sense can be made of it. The fact that Revelation is bound into the King James Bible does not make it canonical.
Lance, the Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox church never accepted Revelation as authentic. The purported writers of II Peter, Jude, and James were not apostles. The book of Esther reeks of Jewish myth; the version in the (counterfeit) Masoretic Text makes no mention of God, and is not mentioned in New Covenant scripture. And the Septuagint is the authentic canon of Old Covenant scripture; Jesus and the apostles quoted from the LXX, and not from the MT.
Lance, no man can change the Canon; but every Christian is instructed to demonstrate for himself whether a document is canonical, I Thessalonians 5:21. Do you trust the "Church fathers" -- men who were mired in Papistry (just read their writings)?
Chris, apparently you do not understand that the style of each book varies with the education and personality of the author; the Spirit did not simply dictate a manuscript. You need to read up on this matter.
Well put Lance.... Russell has added a 5th view to the book mentioned below - 'Revelation is a load of crud and nothings gonna happen'!
Seriously Russell, the first thing to notice is that John was 'in the Spirit' and that he was instructed to 'write these things'; so one would expect the book to be from the Holy Spirit, not an expression of John's personality or literary style. If one uses the latter as a criteria you would start rejecting the book of Daniel, then Ezeikiel etc etc.
If any book is to be rejected as a load of crud it would be the one in the article above from it's description. America saves the world.... yet again. Certainly extra biblical at the best.
A book that can "exacerbate" globally. How bad can we get - globally?
Mixing religion with politics ?? surely not who would think of such a thing?
America AGAINST those nice people at the U.N. - No! Why who would have thought??
A demonic E.U. - Well seat number 666 is there and waiting!!
The three "P's" - Pulpit - Pew - & Publications. They all have extraordinary influences upon the, "Love thy neighbour" theme of nations and their interactions, don't they??
Much contemporary theology is based exclusively upon the book of Revelation, but few Christians test the book to see if it genuinely belongs in the Canon. From the high literary style of Greek, it could not have been written by the author of the Gospel account and epistles of John. The book is not authentic; you cannot make sense of it because it is myth, and not truth. I Thessalonians 5:21.
A really good book is "Revelation Four Views A parallel Commentary" edited by Steve Gregg Thomas Nelson Publishers. It is a real eye opener and has given the me and the kids in my youth group a whole new way (of the 4) of viewing Revelation.
Tim LaHaye is also the author of Act of Marriage -- a graphic how-to manual advocating sexual practices that are dangerous spiritually and physically.
LaHaye has joined Hal Lindsey in raking in the millions from the millions of misguided and unguided Christians in America.
Most bookstores are crammed full of LaHaye type books.
Books such as "After the Antichrist" by Landry and "The Great Rapture Hoax" by McPherson (sp) are not on those shelves. You have to ask the stores to special order.
So Christians are only being told one side.
So unless the Christian is in their Bible, and unless they are willing to put the Scripture over the falsehoods handed out as pastoral teaching and guidance, they will be deceived.
There ARE other books out there giving the right interpretation of the Scriptures.
The truth is, the rapture or translation of the believers without dying is a Biblical teaching and orthodox (i.e. in the creeds). But the doctrine that there will be more than one Second Coming (i.e. two or more) is heretical.
Jesus is coming back again at the END of the tribulation. The Tribulation is the wrath of Satan against Christians and Jews, and God's wrath at the END is to prevent the utter annialation of every living Jew and Christian by Antichrist.
BH, you've interested me enough to read Revelation again. I read it once a few years ago, but took nothing in.
However, I'm not so sure whether these things you describe take place before the tribulation. The events described in Revelation may not be in any particular chronological order.
I suggest you read through the book of Revelation from start to finish. Chronologically, the tribulation starts in Revelation 6 with the 7 seals. Chapter 7 deals with the 144,000. Chapter 8 deals with the 7th seal and the 7 trumpets. Rev. 11 talks about the 2 witnesses. Rev. 15 talks about the 7 last plagues. Rev. 16 tells us about the vials of wrath that God will pour out upon the earth. All these events take place before the millnium and is called the Great Tribulation, the time of Jacob's trouble. At the end of the tribulation period is the Battle of Armageddon.
If we are in the millenium as the preterist believe, them please tell me when all the aformentioned events took place and where is it recorded in world history.
Then the millenium and then the Great White Throne Judgement.
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Certainly extra biblical at the best.
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