Studeclunker
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I've been a Luthern most of my life. This argument has been tossed around for most of the fifty or so years I've been around.
There are three things that bother me about Luthern doctrine in this area though.
1. If the milinium is one thousand years, has it occured to anyone in the church hirearchy that Christ died two thousand years ago?
2. Our doctrine was formulated over five hundred years ago before the reinstatement of the ethnic Jewish people to the historic borders of their country? Also, there is no historic precident for a people who were removed from their country for over a thousand years, to have been returned into the same historic borders with the same religion, language, and culture intact.
3. Lastly. The events that John described in his revelation have been taken as symbolic till this century. Most of the descriptions have been too fantastic to be understood. That is no longer true.
I read the Left Behind series as well. They seemed to be a bit out there to me too. There also seemed to be some fear mongering. But the thing that annoyed me most, was the repetitiveness that robbed the reader in each succesive volume from the third on.
In fact, it became obvious that the authors and publisher were milking the readership for all they could get. Very disapointing.
I do take comfort in the fact that the Luthern Church Missouri Synod is a bit of a stick in the mud when it comes to doctrine. It's better than our sister congregation who are blown about by the winds of change and opinion. I can live with a theological and doctrinal leadership that is cautious. I may have issues with them, or disagree. At least I know what LCMS will stand upon.
There are three things that bother me about Luthern doctrine in this area though.
1. If the milinium is one thousand years, has it occured to anyone in the church hirearchy that Christ died two thousand years ago?
2. Our doctrine was formulated over five hundred years ago before the reinstatement of the ethnic Jewish people to the historic borders of their country? Also, there is no historic precident for a people who were removed from their country for over a thousand years, to have been returned into the same historic borders with the same religion, language, and culture intact.
3. Lastly. The events that John described in his revelation have been taken as symbolic till this century. Most of the descriptions have been too fantastic to be understood. That is no longer true.
I read the Left Behind series as well. They seemed to be a bit out there to me too. There also seemed to be some fear mongering. But the thing that annoyed me most, was the repetitiveness that robbed the reader in each succesive volume from the third on.
In fact, it became obvious that the authors and publisher were milking the readership for all they could get. Very disapointing. I do take comfort in the fact that the Luthern Church Missouri Synod is a bit of a stick in the mud when it comes to doctrine. It's better than our sister congregation who are blown about by the winds of change and opinion. I can live with a theological and doctrinal leadership that is cautious. I may have issues with them, or disagree. At least I know what LCMS will stand upon.
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