Left Behind Series

[flameburns623]

hlgomez:

Is it true that, according to them, only 144,00 will be “raptured”? Does it include babies, baptized or not?

Pio

There is nothing about 144,000: you’re thinking of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I don’t recall if all babies were raptured or just the children of at least 1 Christian parent. There is a ‘wrinkle’ in some versions of Protestant theology that suggests that children before the ‘age of discretion’–roughly six to twelve years old–are ‘under the covenant’ if at least one parent is a believer.

The 144,000 are usually understood as male Jewish missionaries to Israel, to bring in the ‘lost sheep of Israel’. Most commonly, they are NOT understood as celibate, though the 144,000 are said in Scripture to have ‘not defiled themselves with women’. Since only fornication or adultery ‘defile’ heterosexual physical relations, it is presumed these missionaries may in fact ordinarily have wives.

 

[Buckeyejoe]

The Left Behind Series should be just that…Left Behind.

My question is, does LaHaye’s book get raptured? Maybe that should be his sequel.

I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again, there is no scriptures that support a rapture, the entire concept is pure rubbish at best.

This is not harsh language, it is simply the truth.

 

[tamccrackine]

I thought the first book was engaging in a literary sense. I even told my husband that if I wasn’t Catholic, I’d believe this stuff. After about the fourth book, I started to see the anti-Catholic slant. Since I found myself committed, I kept reading the series. By about the 8th book, I was wondering if I should keep going. By the 10th book, it was taking me over 3 months to read something obviously written at a 3rd grade level. To sum it up, I’ve had the last book in my possession for nearly 6 months and can’t get past the 3rd chapter. :yawn: To laugh at it all, I have a protestant friend who was “utterly shocked” (her words) to learn who the “indwellt” was and couldn’t stop talking about how “real” these books were and would try to use them to try to convert me.
Bottom line… they are interesting pool side readings for an afternoon not to be taken seriously. After that… they make excellent coasters.
peace
theresa