Critiques sensational end-times theology as akin to supersti

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The theological ideas undergirding the “Left Behind” phenomenon are both weird and unbiblical, cut from the same hysterical cloth that sent thousands flocking under a Chicago bridge this past April [2005] to venerate a wall stain from a broken sewer (of all things!), seeing in it the appearance of the virgin Mary.

— Roy Adams

Roy Adams, Adventist Review, 6.

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Critiques sensational end-times theology as akin to superstitious mass hysteria.

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Adults

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Convicting

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under a minute · 52 words

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False Doctrine Eschatology Truth Theology Skepticism Superstition Rapture Discernment

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