Christianity and Judaism?

[Caesario]

[John Anthony]

[Karen]

[nomad]

That article that Caesario linked to is about Hagee's organization. I had actually never heard of him either until very recently, when someone emailed me a similar article - which did not think they were shrugging off questions of Armageddon.

[Theo]

Sorry to be so predictable, but regarding the Left Behind books I feel obliged to once more point to the long-running series of essays on them by my favourite Christian blogger:



It's not just about the books - as he goes through the first book, he riffs on all kinds of questions (mostly about Christianity) that come up along the way. In one of the first, he also succinctly describes the series as "evil, anti-Christian crap", an opinion which is argued at length. The essays are also enormously readable, insightful and often quite funny.

[AllanS]

[Josh]

[Boromir]

I'm unable at the moment to respond in this thread with the acuracy I would like, so I'll just post a plea and suggestion to my brothers and sisters in Christ who have strong (and negative) oppinions towards dispensational theology (or merely interpretative tool).
Please do not stereotype and do not easily embrace popular charicatures of dispensational teachings and implications.
Dispensationalism has been systemised at the begining of the 19th century far away from any modern political, religious or cultural concernes (and far away from the United States for that matter). The reasons of it's modern relevance is a thing still to concider.
As far as Tim LaHaye and similar writers are concerend, they may be criticised for vulgarising the rich theological concepts but they can not be made reprsentatives or synonims for the dispensationalism. This is the bitter strawman tactics unworthy of many distinguished theologians who had treated dispensationalism in that manner.
For an acurate presentation of dispensationalism authors such as John F.Walvoord, Dwight J. Pentecost, Charles Ryrie, Leon Wood, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Harry A. Ironside should be consulted and not Tim LaHaye or Hal Linsday.
My suggestion to all who woud have a strong opinions on dispensationalism would be, for the sake of intelectual honesty (and perhaps christian charity), to read a book by Charles Ryrie "Dispensationalism".
In it Ryrie apologeticaly exposits exactly what dispensationalism is and what it's not. It is written as a gude and a plea to non-dispensational christians prone to ridicule. If you will have a strong dislike to a particual theological system, at least have it for the right reasons.