Their ministers long ago fabricated this newfangled "doctrine" so Israeli tourism would abet and promote their "pilgrimages" (for which they charge BIG bucks to act as "shepherds") leading well-healed pious wannabes who think that they can buy their way to heaven by sleeping in one-star hotels and eating off the Continental plan.
Please get some perspective here. Whenever a phase-shift of this magnitude occurs, follow the money.
Their ministers long ago fabricated this newfangled "doctrine" so Israeli tourism would abet and promote their "pilgrimages" (for which they charge BIG bucks to act as "shepherds") leading well-healed pious wannabes who think that they can buy their way to heaven by sleeping in one-star hotels and eating off the Continental plan.
Please get some perspective here. Whenever a phase-shift of this magnitude occurs, follow the money.
Tell us the one about how C. I. Scofield was "in on it" and how his holding a federal job in Kansas after fighting for the Confederacy "proves" it.