Tim LaHaye has died

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Tim LaHaye, age 90, prophecy teacher of the Pre-Mill + Rapture end-times interpretation, has passed away. LaHaye was the author of over a dozen books on prophecy and on marriage and family. He is best known as the co-author of the Left Behind series.

Our thoughts and prayers go to his family and friends. May his soul rejoice in God his Savior.

Heaven might not be exactly as he predicted, but it’s safe to say it’s going to be good.
 
My he rest in peace and may God grant consolation to his loved ones.
 
He may have had some odd theology for my taste, but he did lead people to Christ, may he rest in peace.
 
I enjoyed listening to him. I believe he is in heaven with Our Savior, Jesus Christ. :heaven:
 
The_Old_Maid said:
Tim LaHaye, age 90, prophecy teacher of the Pre-Mill + Rapture end-times interpretation, has passed away. LaHaye was the author of over a dozen books on prophecy and on marriage and family. He is best known as the co-author of the Left Behind series.

Our thoughts and prayers go to his family and friends. May his soul rejoice in God his Savior.

Heaven might not be exactly as he predicted, but it’s safe to say it’s going to be good.
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Did he say anything specific about Heaven per se, as distinct from the post-apocalyptic world?

ICXC NIKA
 
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord…

Our Father…

Hail Mary…

Glory be…
 
He mislead a lot of people and diverted them from the Truth. God have mercy on his soul.
 
Indeed May God have Mercy on him, much more than he had in this lifetime for those who disagreed with him.
LaHaye dismissed Catholicism as a “false religion.” He was removed as chair of the Jack Kemp presidential campaign in 1988 after just four days when his anti-Catholic views came to light. LaHaye had founded a mission to Catholics that was virulently anti-Catholic and sought to convert them to evangelical Christianity.

Writing about Pope John Paul II, LaHaye and his co-writer for the Left Behind books were described as believing:
The present pope,” the pair assert, “is on record as believing in the Trinity and may indeed pray in the name of Jesus Christ. However, his infatuation with the vision of Fatima and his reverence for Mary (whom he credits with saving his life from an assassin’s bullet) concerns some who fear he could be setting up his church and the religions of the world for the fulfillment of Revelation 17, where the ‘Mystery Babylon, the mother of harlots,’ unifies all the religions of the world during the first half of the Tribulation.”
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SyroMalankara said:
Indeed May God have Mercy on him, much more than he had in this lifetime for those who disagreed with him.
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He definitely had an anti-Catholic streak in him, particularly in the 80’s and 90’s.

But strangely he also made the fictional Pope John XXIV one of those raptured in his Left Behind book series as well. Which might indicate a softening of his feelings against at least some Catholics later in life. Of course he also made John XXIV’s successor, Peter II, the Pontifex Maximus of the Anti-Christ’s Enigma Babylon One World Faith… so maybe not. :confused:
 
Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Amen.
May God have mercy on his soul.
 
RIP

Earlier evangelicals preached Sola Scriptura, but also took for granted a whole context of Tradition, implicitly accepting the whole Natural Law. Tim’s generation of evangelicals began moving away from the Natural Law, eagerly embracing contraception, allowing for more “exceptions” on abortion (as he did). They also were cautiously more accepting of divorce/remarriage if the situation fell under “scriptural guidelines”, and boy did those guidelines later open up. Then some have gone on to use the Bible to defend same sex marriage, which he would not have wanted. I think if he had foreseen the long term consequences of rejection of the Natural Law, he would have embraced it explicitly, along with the context of Tradition.

He also helped organize Christian schools in his area into a system, he had an excellent writing style and/or found just the right collaborators. I remember back in the late 1970s reading his analysis of how the media and political systems would combine under the ideology of secular humanism. He was exactly right.

Again, we pray for his soul, and for his family. He may not have labored in the Lord’s field exactly as I would have, but he sure worked a whole lot harder. God Bless him.
 
SyroMalankara said:
Indeed May God have Mercy on him, much more than he had in this lifetime for those who disagreed with him.
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I believe his “Left Behind” books had the reverse effect of what they were intended. The books and the movies displayed how truly ridiculous the entirety of Dispensationalist theology actually is. From the “Rapture” of “true Christians”, to the “seven years” of torture God puts the world through knowing full well those “Left Behind” will never repent. The bizarre worship of the nation of Israel. The anti-Christ riding into the Temple on a giant pig…
Turning the Book of Revelation into a B-movie was, IMO, the last gasp of the “late great planet earth” brand of end-times fundamentalism. It showed in full technicolor CGI just how ridiculous it is.
 
JustaServant said:
I believe his “Left Behind” books had the reverse effect of what they were intended. The books and the movies displayed how truly ridiculous the entirety of Dispensationalist theology actually is. From the “Rapture” of “true Christians”, to the “seven years” of torture God puts the world through knowing full well those “Left Behind” will never repent. The bizarre worship of the nation of Israel. The anti-Christ riding into the Temple on a giant pig…
Turning the Book of Revelation into a B-movie was, IMO, the last gasp of the “late great planet earth” brand of end-times fundamentalism. It showed in full technicolor CGI just how ridiculous it is.
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If they had that effect it sure took a lot of purchases for people to come to that conclusion. The series sold 65 million copies and 7 of the books were #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list. Even that ****** B-movie starring Kirk Cameron made it to number 1 on Amazon’s movie sales surpassing the 2002 Spider-Man movie for a couple of days when it was released.

Many may have come to the same conclusion you did, but somehow I doubt the series put an end to it.
 
Padres1969 said:
If they had that effect it sure took a lot of purchases for people to come to that conclusion. The series sold 65 million copies and 7 of the books were #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list. Even that ****** B-movie starring Kirk Cameron made it to number 1 on Amazon’s movie sales surpassing the 2002 Spider-Man movie for a couple of days when it was released.

Many may have come to the same conclusion you did, but somehow I doubt the series put an end to it.
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If you live in the south, rapture theology is everywhere. Heck, near where I live there used to be a “rapture preparation center”. Granted, I think that’s gone, but the theology is still common here.
 
JustaServant said:
I believe his “Left Behind” books had the reverse effect of what they were intended. The books and the movies displayed how truly ridiculous the entirety of Dispensationalist theology actually is. From the “Rapture” of “true Christians”, to the “seven years” of torture God puts the world through knowing full well those “Left Behind” will never repent. The bizarre worship of the nation of Israel. The anti-Christ riding into the Temple on a giant pig…
Turning the Book of Revelation into a B-movie was, IMO, the last gasp of the “late great planet earth” brand of end-times fundamentalism. It showed in full technicolor CGI just how ridiculous it is.
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I agree that in skeptical circles, the Northeast US and larger cities, and to non-Christians, it had the reverse effect than was intended. However, these people know next to nothing about the distinction between Christians, so the effect reverberated to those of us who find his theology vile and not at all Apostolic or accurate. Even now, blowhard Bill Maher and others like him will trot out the LaHayism to dismiss Christianity on the whole as ludicrous. And to the uneducated (or lesser educated), it is.
 
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