Bible Scavenger Hunt

[Dave L]

Does scripture directly support any of today’s most popular doctrines?

The 7 year tribulation?

The pre-trib rapture?

The restored Roman Empire?

The rebuilt Temple?

The return to animal sacrifices?

Russia marching on Israel?

A Gap between Daniel’s 69th and 70th weeks?

 

[Albion]

Those are todays most popular doctrines??

 

[vinsight4u]

/nvm

 

[Dave L]

Those are todays most popular doctrines??

The books are flying off the shelves. Movies claiming the same too.

 

[Albion]

The books are flying off the shelves. Movies claiming the same too.

It's really a pretty small segment of Christianity that is concerned about these doctrines, however.

 

[Dave L]

It's really a pretty small segment of Christianity that is concerned about these doctrines, however.

It's a multi-million dollar industry.

 

[Anto9us]

Popular or not -- no -- scripture does not directly support those doctrines

 

[Dave L]

Popular or not -- no -- scripture does not directly support those doctrines

That is why I posted them. To see if those who believe them know why they believe them.

 

[Hank77]

Does scripture directly support any of today’s most popular doctrines?

The 7 year tribulation?

The pre-trib rapture?

The restored Roman Empire?

The rebuilt Temple?

The return to animal sacrifices?

Russia marching on Israel?

A Gap between Daniel’s 69th and 70th weeks?

No

 

[Hank77]

That is why I posted them. To see if those who believe them know why they believe them.

Did you consider doing a poll?

 

[Albion]

It's a multi-million dollar industry.

What you are referring to appears to be a certain level of curiosity about conspiracy theories, predictions of coming events, etc.

What the OP called those items, however, was something else.

today’s most popular doctrines

I thought that if something is called a most popular doctrine, the meaning was supposed to be that these are religious doctrines that most people believe themselves. You meant something else apparently.

 

[Dave L]

Did you consider doing a poll?

I didn't consider it. But I think people might realize some of their cherished beliefs have no scriptural support.

 

[Dave L]

What you are referring to appears to be a certain level of curiosity about conspiracy theories, predictions of coming events, etc.

What the OP called those items, however, was something else.

It depends on how you measure popularity. Book sales in the multi-millions of dollars make these books more popular than run of the mill theology and other religious books.

 

[Albion]

duplicate post.

 

[1stcenturylady]

Does scripture directly support any of today’s most popular doctrines?

The 7 year tribulation?

The pre-trib rapture?

The restored Roman Empire?

The rebuilt Temple?

The return to animal sacrifices?

Russia marching on Israel?

A Gap between Daniel’s 69th and 70th weeks?

You should add another one. Did Jesus really return in 70 A.D. and fulfill Revelation?

 

[Anto9us]

Maybe what can be considered is WHY the doctrines in the OP are so "popular" and such a multi-million dollar endeavor.

There is a lot of unfulfilled prophecy, especially regarding Israel. The PreTrib view has a 'pat answer' to "getting Israel back into things" -- after all, Paul said that "all Israel shall be saved"

So a scheme where the Jews get back into the picture meets some need somehow, I don't understand it all; I am just trying to fathom how those doctrines became so popular

 

[1stcenturylady]

It's not like these beliefs are pulled out of the air. There is scriptural reasons.

Matthew 24
Luke 21
Mark 13
Daniel 9:24-27
Romans 11
1 and 11 Thessalonians
Revelation

But some chapters, such as Matthew 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13 have BOTH the events of 70 A.D., AND the second coming of Christ which includes the Great Tribulation. Preterists will not separate them. Others will acknowledge the first as separate from the second, and all sorts of mixtures, such as putting the Great Tribulation with 70 A.D., while others put it with the Second Coming.

Much has to do with when Revelation was written. Preterists believe before 70 A.D., while those who believe in the literal second coming of Christ put it at 96 A.D.

Another has to do with the rebuilding of the temple. Was it the one destroyed in 70 A.D., or another one in the future.

 

[Dave L]

Maybe what can be considered is WHY the doctrines in the OP are so "popular" and such a multi-million dollar endeavor.

There is a lot of unfulfilled prophecy, especially regarding Israel. The PreTrib view has a 'pat answer' to "getting Israel back into things" -- after all, Paul said that "all Israel shall be saved"

So a scheme where the Jews get back into the picture meets some need somehow, I don't understand it all; I am just trying to fathom how those doctrines became so popular

You must be one of the book buyers? Thinking as you do?

 

[Hazelelponi]

nvm..

 

[Albion]

Support for the state of Israel comes in many forms and for a number of reasons. Simply thinking that the Jews are or were the chosen people and under a threat of extermination at the hands of militant Islam will persuade some people, but all the rest of this is really pretty marginal as Christian churches go...and almost totally absent in the teachings of the larger and more historic Christian denominations.