no need to get our knickers in a twist over eschatological differences, right?
Ed, what's the rude awakening coming?
we're still family. we can still love one another, eschatology aside.
I guess I should clarify. In the 4.5 yrs I've been on here I can only remember one issue where I was genuinely angry and disgusted. And it in a way had to do with this issue. The person was so adamantly opposed to Israel that she eventually went down the Holocaust denial route. I personally knew people who both suffered in the camps, and who liberated them.
I'm convinced at the root of Christian anti-semitism is replacement theology.
I absolutely love those that do not see Scripture in the literal way I do, but I must point out I NEVER start these threads dealing with this issue. But I feel compelled to respond to those that want to degrade those of us who believe in the literal interpretation.
I understand that our primary function as members of the body is to love one another and spread the Gospel unto Salvation to a dying world.
I think the rude awakening is that at some point the clarity of prophecy will be so evident that it cannot be denied.
We are on the cusp of a cashless society for instance. We have the technology, we have evil people wanting it, they simply know at this moment the political will isn't quite there yet.
Will you dear sister take some form of RFID chip, tattoo, or other device implanted in you for the purpose of buying and selling because you don't take that passage literally? I'd really like to know.
I don't know how much more specific Scripture can get than that.
So you know that I love you and Willie and everyone else that thinks differently than me on this issue. And if I started a thread with the intent of degrading your position I should expect a visceral response, shouldn't I?