[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Exactly. You get some guy with little or no formal religious training, and all of a sudden they've "discovered" a hidden doctrine, central to Christianity, that everyone else just happened to miss for the last 1950 years? Riiiight....

Hal Lindsey, (the Late, Great Planet Earth guy) was a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, which, agree or disagree with their theology, isn't exactly a diploma mill. That makes matters all the worse, because the guy SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER!

In light of his "testimony" and "Christian Witness", i'd $uspect more ba$e motive$ for Lind$ey rather than $imple bad theolgy, if you can $ee What i am $aying.

[drstevej]

***Hal Lindsey, (the Late, Great Planet Earth guy) was a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary***

Nope. Hal attended Dallas Seminary but was never a professor. In fact, he did not have an undergraduate degree prior to DTS and was admitted as a special student. I think he was a riverboat captain prior to seminary.

Ryrie, Pentecost or Walvoord would be better examples of classic dispensational professors at Dallas. I studied under all three. You are right it is not a diploma mill. The four year Master's Program there was far more rigorous than my four year engineering degree at Georgia Tech. Much more work.

Lindsey's LGPE happened to be the popularizing book that caught fire with the public.