Aren't the many escatological views that go into minute details straw men?

Question

Jesus came into the world through the virgin birth, lived the perfect life(which we cannot not), suffered and died as substitutionary death, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, will come back and bring in the and set up the final world of existance. Isn't trying to fine tune the details much more than this building the strw man and not woth causing division? It's nice to think about, but being hard and fast is not good hermeneutics.

Answer 1

Yes!

40 years ago I was tolking to some school friends and telling them that in the future we would not cash, that you would be able to go the shop get what you wanted the shop would be able to somehow transfer the cash from my bank account to theirs. The kids in my class thought I was mad. Today we call it 'electronic funds transfer'. How did I know? This system had to be a precurser to the end time economy.

Some doctrine and teaching is needed but we cannot be dogmatic about it.

If we don't have teaching on it we won't know not to get the mark of the beast, we will not be able to know what is happening to wittness that what is going on is recorded in the bible - proving its authority and trustworthyness.

Straw men? Straw but with a steel frame that can be used as a foundation.

Answer 2

jesus, like all religion, is myth and superstition...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_myth

beleive in something real...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

don't be afraid on the truth ;-)