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[retro_rider55]

Just started reading Dan Brown's biggest competitor, Tim Lahaye ("Left Behind"), since even some Protestant clergy feel he tweaks the facts to suit the story, as Brown has been thus accused. I just wanted to drop this little tidbit I found:

" - attended Bob Jones University in South Carolina. Bob Jones is a Fundamentalist school known for intense

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[pastorlenny]

since even some Protestant clergy feel he tweaks the facts to suit the story, as Brown has been thus accused

I'm not sure I understand this construction. What did you mean by "even?" Did you mean that Protestant clergy generally tolerate error? Or that Protestant clergy generally distort orthodoz teaching as much as Lahaye does And why "feel?" Are we talking about a vague emotional discomfort -- or actual doctrinal disagreement?

And how are the accusations against Lahaye similar to those against Brown? Aren't brown's issues historical -- while Lahaye's are scriptural?

[retro_rider55]

Wikipedia:

From premillennialists

Some premillennialists, while accepting many of the basic beliefs behind the series, describe problems with specific prophetical teachings in the Left Behind books. For instance, in The Mark, Chang Wong receives both the mark of the beast and the sealing of the Lord and he is later able to go to heaven, despite having the mark. In Desecration, the character's dual-marking was justified in the storyline. He was saved because he did not accept the mark of the beast; he was forced to receive it because he was involuntarily put to sleep and then given it. It was noted in one particular paragraph in the book Desecration, after hitting the "motherlode" as he called it, that Chang at one point attempted to mumble to his father that he was a "Believer" as he carried him into the room to receive his mark. This has led some readers[12] to wonder how a Christian can have the mark of the beast and still be saved[13].

Mainstream ChristianityAlong with some other rapture fiction novels, the Left Behind series

[redcoast]

Oh, are you reading The Slacktivist? I haven't even got all the way through the archives yet, but it is very good. The blogger does a good job of explaining the history of Lahaye/Jenkins's particular eschatology, premillennial dispensationalism, from the perspective of a Protestant.

[retro_rider55]

That's the phrasing/terminology I should have used. pastorlenny take note.

[retro_rider55]

Thanks for the link.

Hmmm; Stephen King produced a much - so far as I've read ("Assassins") - oh, keeedies', scaaarier AntiChrist than did Lahye & Jenkins, in his work The Stand. I was hoping Carpaethia's taking of Hattie would resemble the eventually meeting between Nadine Cross & Randall Flagg (" - Hattie screamed when she saw what Nicolae had..."

Oh for some decent Left Behind pr0n. Hmm...

[redcoast]

I haven't gotten that far in Left Behind but I've always wondered what it was about Flagg's penis that got him that reaction.

[chaz_lehmann]

Tim LaHaye and Dan Brown have identical levels of theological ability.

[retro_rider55]

- equal to that of John Wayne's singing ability?

[chaz_lehmann]

I would never insult the Duke like that.

[pure_agnostic]

since even some Protestant clergy feel he tweaks the facts to suit the story, as Brown has been thus accused

Reminds me of that Mark Twain quote: "Please get acquainted with the facts before you distort them."