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What is the mark? Well the mark Brian, is the barcode. The ubitiqous barcode that you'll find on every bog roll, and every packet of johnny's and every poxie-pot pie. And every [expletive-removed] barcode is divided into two parts by three markers and those three markers are always represented by the number six. Six-six-six.
-- Naked, a movie Directed by Mike Leigh, starring David Thewlis, 1993
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News: Using the Wrong Text to Make a Point
Posted on Tuesday, August 21 @ 20:08:40 PDT by Virgil |
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by Gary DeMar
Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis(AiG) sees the newly opened Creation Museum contributing to the fulfillment of Jesus’ prophetic words in Matthew 24:14: "The remarkable international media buzz surrounding the opening of the Creation Museum on May 28 [2007] reminded me of the verse above from Matthew 24. In many ways, reporting by the secular and Christian media (from around the world) has certainly greatly contributed to seeing the gospel “preached in all the world."1
While I applaud Ken and Answers in Genesis with how they confront the secularists head on the topic of creation, Ken’s use of Matthew 24:14 is misapplied. Matthew 24 is describing events that will take place before that first-century generation passes away. Jesus concludes the first section of Matthew 24, which deals with specific signs that will take place in the lifetime of his disciples (famines, earthquakes, tribulation, war), by stating that “this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come” (24:14). Futurists, especially dispensationalists, maintain that the specifics of Matthew 24:14 are yet to be fulfilled because “whole world” means the entire globe as we know it today, and “all the nations” means all the nations that are in existence today. Since the gospel did not reach the entire globe prior to that first-century generation passing away, futurists argue, the passage awaits an end-time fulfillment.
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Re: Using the Wrong Text to Make a Point (Score: 1)
 by Ed on Tuesday, August 21 @ 21:01:50 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I don't mean to speak for Tim or Jeff, but I would have to say that Mr. Ham is being consistent; and Mr. DeMar is not. I don't say this in any way derogatorily of Gary; I think that if more Presbyterians had his spirit of fellowship and acceptance, the Kingdom would be far better off. However, as Martin and Vaughn (sounds like a vaudeville team) have pointed out, the dispensational, literal hermeneutic is the very one that has led to the 6 Day Creation movement. That literalism is the foundation of misinterpretation at both ends of the bible.
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