In God's Time

[mandolin]

I've been getting pretty stoked out by this new book I got.

It's called In God's Time by a NT professor at Wesley theological seminary in D.C. named Craig C. Hill.

It's an escatological book. (for the most part)

I haven't gotten extremely far...so if the book starts to suck, I'm sorry.

Seriously, though...this book is a must-read (IMHO)

It's very "scholarly" yet very understandable. It has enough comedy to be funny...and not too much as to be corny.

And most importantly...the information talked about is top-notch.

This book rocks!

[dizzle]

What is it specifically advocating??

[mandolin]

well...the book is not very "fundamentalist".

It's against innerancy (to a healthy degree) and specifically shows why. It spends the first portion just explaining the way the bible should be seen. (each writer writes through differing opinions and viewpoints...while preaching important inevitable truths) The bible may have discrepancies...but these portray the the individuality of each writer,

As for the escatological theories, it is greatly opposed to a premillenial dispensationalist viewpoint, and has many other teachings as well. I really can't expressly tell you what the book is totally about, because I've not yet read very much of it.

His teaching's are not extremely mainstream. I mean...he's a futurist...which is mainstream...but he's definitely against the "Left Behind" teachings of pretribulational rapture.

Basically...he compares Revelation with other jewish eschatological writings.

He repeatedly quotes the bible, the apocrypha, various OT time prophets (outside of judaism), all sorts of other ancient sources, and various Jewish literature.

Being against biblical literalism and fundamentalism, he doesn't piece the various prophecies together as people like Hagee, Lahae, Jenkins, or Lindsay do.

It's very hard to explain the book. Especially because I have't read very much of it.

(he's probably a preterist literalist calvinist :teeth:, and I blindly think he's not...because I haven't read very far into the book)

My point....though I've not read a ton of the book....so far it ROCKS!

[dizzle]

Well let me know if he is preterist.. I collect that kind of stuff.