Category: APOLOGETICS

RAPTURE 7: FAULTY IMMINENCE- CONTINUED

RAPTURE 7: FAULTY IMMINENCE- CONTINUED

Last time I  discussed the hopeful but faulty application of Jesus' words "You do not know the day or the hour" to the pre-tribulation rapture theory. This post, excerpt 7 of my book*  continues on from there... The “imminence” view assumes that the starting moment of the tribulation, including the very day and the time of … Continue reading RAPTURE 7: FAULTY IMMINENCE- CONTINUED

RAPTURE 6: IMMINENCE

RAPTURE 6: IMMINENCE

Welcome back to excerpts from my book "All Left Behind: The Case Against the Pre-Tribulation Rapture". I was once a zealous defender of the pre-trib. rapture, but came to see things very differently when I eventually faced up to certain scriptures I had previously ignored, and analysed them more realistically. Here then is installment 6, … Continue reading RAPTURE 6: IMMINENCE

TRUMP, THE POLITICAL DIVIDE, AND SEX

TRUMP, THE POLITICAL DIVIDE, AND SEX

European people mock and despise Donald Trump, and then wonder why their own leaders are so spineless. I'm speaking as a Brit., and from what I observe I'm presuming to speak of the people of other European countries as well... Here in the US, a large section of one political party-the Republican- is in large … Continue reading TRUMP, THE POLITICAL DIVIDE, AND SEX

WHAT MAKES YOU SO SURE YOUR RELIGION IS THE RIGHT ONE?

WHAT MAKES YOU SO SURE YOUR RELIGION IS THE RIGHT ONE?

Usually people ask this question not in an honest, inquiring way, but rhetorically, cynically, critically. Or perhaps in these more militant days they'll just tell you straight that you can't know anything for sure-except, of course, what they believe. They want you to be unsure of your faith, and preferably to abandon it altogether, so … Continue reading WHAT MAKES YOU SO SURE YOUR RELIGION IS THE RIGHT ONE?

WHO JESUS IS

WHO JESUS IS

There are as many views about who Jesus was and is as there could possibly be about anyone, are there not? He was "just a man"; he was "a revolutionary"; he was "not a real person"; he was "deluded". This post will very briefly outline my own very firm conviction, after decades of serious consideration … Continue reading WHO JESUS IS