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Here's how you can tell if it's a dream from God or if it's just a dream: If you awake right after that, it's a dream from God, because the Bible says whenever God spoke to His saints through dreams they awakened. They did not stay asleep, they woke up.
-- Benny Hinn, This is Your Day, Trinity Broadcasting Network, March 19, 1997
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Dispensationalism: CBS 60 Minutes: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Posted on Wednesday, April 14 @ 18:06:15 PDT by John |
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(CBS) The latest of the "Left Behind" novels, "Glorious Appearing," has been a phenomenal success at the book stores. Its central audience are the estimated 100 million Americans who call themselves evangelical Christians – and their influence on politics is undeniable. In the last election, 40 percent of the votes for George W. Bush came from their ranks.
And Hollywood, including the television networks, is also getting the message -- at least the obvious financial message that stories about Jesus, the Bible and belief can generate billions.
An example: Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ” was again No. 1 at the box office this past Easter weekend. So far, it has grossed more than $350 million.
Why this sudden surge of religiosity? In this 60 Minutes Classic, Correspondent Morley Safer went back to two men who’ve been profiting from the "Left Behind" series for years: Jerry Jenkins and Rev. Tim LaHaye.
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Re: CBS 60 Minutes: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (Score: 1)
 by davo on Wednesday, April 14 @ 23:13:29 PDT
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Quote: “And so they say we sort of invented this violent Jesus. That stuff is straight from the Bible. The idea of him slaying the enemy with the sword, that comes from his mouth, which is The Word, and the fact that the enemies eyes melt in their heads, their tongues disintegrates, their flesh drops off, I didn't make that up. That's out of the prophecy.”
Scary stuff. The only thing factual about the "Left Behind" series is that they are novels - having no basis of truth.
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Re: CBS 60 Minutes: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (Score: 1)
 by rfwitt on Thursday, April 15 @ 04:51:57 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | The only thing these novels prove is the dismal state of evangelical Christianity in America and the great amount of biblical ignorance abroad in the churches. Thank God that Preterism is making some inroads into this mythical interpretation of scripture.
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Re: CBS 60 Minutes: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (Score: 1)
by BigD on Monday, April 19 @ 12:06:57 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | ditto. My pastor this weekend went on a tear about the end times. His biggest gaffe, just like LaHaye and Jenkins, is to say "I am a literalist, I interpret the Book of Revelation literally." Really? The "most Hebrew" book in the Bible, filled with euphemisims and Jewish idioms. How do the "literalists" get past Rev. 1:1&7 I'd like to know.
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