[Iowegian]

The writer attacks the easy targets of TV preachers and Christian writers who have made certain predictions. Nobody I know of puts any stock in what any TV preacher who begs for money has to say and the "Left Behind" authors acknowledge that their work is fiction, as do all the readers of their books. But that seems lost on the writer of this piece. Hal Lindsay, like many others, made the mistake of thinking he could personally come to specific dates and times for future events. This is clearly wrong, and any quick glance at the Gospels tells us that no man knows the day or hour of Christ's coming, so this is doomed to failure. But this does not prove or disprove the eschatology in question. It's all just a "straw man" that is easy to knock down. The writer would do better to address and try to refute their eschatology, which he does a poor job of, at least from what I see IMO.

[Quix]

WOW, A CALM, REASONABLE, LOGICAL observation.

humbled and honored. Thanks.

[sheltonmac]

"It's all just a 'straw man' that is easy to knock down. The writer would do better to address and try to refute their eschatology, which he does a poor job of, at least from what I see IMO."

A straw man? Hardly. The "straw men" mentioned in the article are icons in the field of dispensational premillennialism. They are examples of what happens when people get caught up in End Times hysteria.

To address your claim that their eschatology cannot be refuted, the scripture references from Romans, Galatians and Hebrews are stumbling blocks for premillennialism. The dispensationalist cannot help but twist the interpretation of those passages in order make them fit into their paradigm.

[StockAyatollah]

Left Behind was without a doubt the worst movie I have ever seen. Bar none!