RE: ripped off a C-Stone

["Bethany Keeley" <blk4 at calvin_edu>]

the reason I read that book in the first place was for a bible
class I took in High School, and I had to write a paper about
their interpretation of Revelation compared with the one we were
being taught in class.  We were taught that its in an Apocalyptic
genre, it has a lot of references to Daniel, and its highly
symbolic.  Anyone's thoughts about the end-times are highly
speculative, and I wish some Left Behind readers would remember
that.  Even Tim LaHaye doesn't know what the seven winds said.

Bethany

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> Christian Lindemer wrote:
> > Aaron Edwards wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think that Tim Lahaye has the literary
> >> capacity to be ironic. Ooipsy, did I just bad mouth
> >> Left Behind and the John Grisham of Christian fiction?
> >> sorry, I'm an English major, with a major chip on my
> >> shoulder about certain (or rather most) Christian
> >> fiction authors.
> >>
> >>
> > A certain authority on the book of Revelation (Dr.
> Bob Lowery, if you
> > must know) doesn't think too highly of the series,
> but I haven't
> > personally picked one up to read it.  I'm not sure
> the subject is one
> > that really /should/ be novelized and fictionalized.
> >
>Then JP Davis added
> The most convincing scholarship on Revelation I've
> read says that
> Revelation was written in a popular genre at the time
> which passed
> itself off as prophetic vision to be able to criticise
> the Roman Empire
> without getting executed. Stuff like the fact that the
> popular Hebrew
> numerology of the time renders 666 as "Ceasar Nero",
> and that the story
> of the birth of the child is a mimicry/mockery of the
> story of the birth
> of the god Apollo, from whom Roman emperors claimed to
> be descended,
> etc. I'll try to see if I can dig a up a link or two
> if aynone wants.
>

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