Re: Antichrist Backers See Exit Sign.

Pastor Dave <ananias917_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
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> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:21:00 -0400, "Jake Horn"
> <Jake.Horn.52@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> spake thusly:
> 
> 
>>"parallax-scroll" <parallaxscroll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 3, 6:25 pm, Craig Chilton -- Help to make
>>> the USA Bigotry-FREE!
>>>>
>>>> Only problem with what you said is the fact
>>>> the Bible says the Anti-Christ won't be revealed
>>>> until AFTER the Rapture.
>>>
>>> That might be a  false interpretation.  The thinking
>>> among many Bible prophecy teachers now is that
>>> the AntiChrist will be in power, on the scene, and
>>> revealed BEFORE the so-called Rapture .... That
>>> the Church / true christians WILL go through
>>> The Great Tribulation.  This is something that many
>>> christians are not comfortable with for obvious reasons.
>>> It's much easier & nicer to think they'll be raptured
>>> away before the real **** hits the fan.
>>
>>That thinking has some very difficult problems.  Before
>>the early 1800's the traditional church never believed
>>in a literal interpetation of the eschology of scripture.
>>No tribulation and no so-called rapture as the
>>dispensationalist refer to it today.  No 1000 year reign
>>before the final judgement.
> 
> The Scriptures do not sup****t these ideas.  This statement
> tends to get folks all excited and they start quoting verses
> to you, as if you have never seen them before.
> 
> In reality, Dispensationalism misreads the passages,
> which do not actually say those things.
> 
> But today, Dispensationalists do not ask themselves why
> before the early 1800's, the church didn't believe these
> ideas and didn't see them.
> 
> Of course, the answer is a vain one.  We are told that
> they didn't know what we know today.  How arrogant!
> The Apostles who wrote the Scriptures were just men
> who were ignorant of the things of God and stumbled
> through Christianity?!
> 
Why on earth would anyone follow BS "scripture" that was written by men 
who "didn't know what we know today"?  Wouldn't it be more logical (and 
intelligent) to follow current information under today's standards?