What is your take on The Left Behind seris? Do these books, though fiction, make you question your salvation? Do you believe that if the Tribulation were to happen today, it would be like what is described in these books?
2007-12-28 05:11:02 · 14 answers · asked by nathanjonramirez 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I read them and I do believe they are accurate. I am amazed at what will take place and hope it happens in my life time so I will not die physically. Praise be to God
2007-12-28 05:15:01 · answer #1 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
A friend of mine read the entire series and the kids' series of the "Left Behind" books. She loved them and thought I would, too. I tried reading the first one and got thoroughly bored with the bad theology and the sensationalism about midway through the second chapter.
I'm Catholic, and I don't believe in "Once saved, always saved," but I *do* believe in the mercy of God. It'd take a lot more than a novel to shake my belief in His goodness and compassion.
As far as I'm concerned, those books are nothing but spiritual terrorism -- either "get saved" or face the threat of going through unspeakable horror. Conversions based on fear usually last just about as long as the fear does, and once it dissipates, so does the religious fervor.
I don't know what the Tribulation will be like, and neither does anyone else. Those books are fiction and not even particularly well-written fiction, at that.
2007-12-28 05:25:20 · answer #2 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
that's, defiantly. have you ever been so caught up in a e book you do no longer p.c. it to end? or you does no longer provide up examining it. it is the way you would be with this e book. i don't be attentive to every person who would not like the series.........or Edward(a character). you won't like it interior the initiating,yet once you preserve examining it gets greater suitable. i'm on the third e book Eclipse and so some distance i like it. in case you come back to a determination to examine it, right here is the order of the series: twilight new moon eclipse breaking sunrise- coming in August Yay hour of darkness sunlight- coming in some years. awwwww!
2016-10-20 04:42:07 · answer #3 · answered by esquinaldo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I have not read them. I don't believe in a secret rapture. The Bible says that when Jesus returns He will return "with a shout", "that every eye will see Him". It also says, "the dead in Christ will rise first and the living will be caught up in the air". These passages dispell the theory of a secret rapture before the time of tribulation. All mankind will pass through the time of tribulation, except those that are in the grave.
2007-12-28 05:20:27 · answer #4 · answered by larryhuckabee 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I left behind that whole series.
Hehehe, I kill myself. Is this thing on?
But seriously, the whole series has convinced the more credulous and ignorant among the Christians that there is something to the whole idea of an End Times, which there isn't. I see it as Christian sadism, where the faithful will receive their reward of eternal life and at the same time have the opportunity to relish to bloody massacre of non-believers.
2007-12-28 05:14:28 · answer #5 · answered by Peter D 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Great fictional series... but they make a lot of conclusions without basis.
2007-12-28 06:56:05 · answer #6 · answered by Tim A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have read about 5 of them and enjoyed them. I do not think they can give a realistic idea of what will happen in the ebd times but they are worth reading definatly. I tryed to get them from the libray but could not get all and gave up after a while.
2007-12-28 05:16:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am almost done with book 11 and I read the 1st prequel. I really like them and they are so exciting. It made me think about things but you have to remember that is only one persons interpretation of Revelations.
2007-12-28 05:15:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't waste my time or my money on such drivvel.
If I want fairytales, I can get Aesop's Fables from the library for free.
2007-12-28 05:43:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but it does make me question the collective intelligence of the book-buying public...
2007-12-28 05:13:39 · answer #10 · answered by The Reverend Soleil 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋