5/24/2023 0 Comments Left behind by tim lahaye![]() They have some good moments - the shots at liberal theology and the New Age movement horrific thrills suspense that builds through book after book - but they fall short as Christian literature. The Left Behind novels are fiction, not theology, so they must be approached as literature. ![]() Christians should be leery of building their faith on expectations of Christ’s imminent return, rather than what Christ has already done for us on the cross. The problem is, Scripture is not clear on all of these questions - which makes the various interpretations possible - so Christians ought not approach them with such certainty. ![]() The various eschatological positions - premillennialism, postmillennialism, and amillennialism - have their advocates, all of whom base their position on Scripture. Speculation about when Christ will return and attempts to decode the Bible’s prophecies have been popular for centuries. One might rejoice that a conservative, Bible-believing, evangelical title has finally broken through into the mass market and thus, presumably, into the culture as a whole but unfortunately, the great popularity of the series is spreading confusion and misunderstanding about the end times. The series of children’s books about a school for witches has sold 12 million copies, but the series of apocalyptic novels has sold 20 million. ![]() The Left Behind books are bigger than Harry Potter. ![]()
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