What are you reading?

[Ric]

I'm reading:
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[Rubens]

I'm reading a book called Herodotus- The Histories but I dunno who wrote it, I can't see the author's name anywhere... oh wait, here it is..."Penguin Classics" (sounds Norwegian).

This guy sounds like a travel writer for Lonely Planet 480 B.C. He's been everywhere, including places that 'aint no more! Some great historical underpinning for the Bible, especially Daniel and co.

I'm also reading the Left Behind series. Nobody seems to mention it much on TW- are you guys ALL preterists?? I don't neccessarily agree with the eschatology of the books but they do give me a sudden urge to rush out my front door and yell "REPENT AND BE SAVED BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!"

...and that can't be a bad thing can it??

[bar Jonah]

Today @ 12:32 AM post located here
Rubens:

I'm reading a book called Herodotus- The Histories but I dunno who wrote it, I can't see the author's name anywhere... oh wait, here it is..."Penguin Classics" (sounds Norwegian).

This guy sounds like a travel writer for Lonely Planet 480 B.C. He's been everywhere, including places that 'aint no more! Some great historical underpinning for the Bible, especially Daniel and co.

I'm also reading the Left Behind series. Nobody seems to mention it much on TW- are you guys ALL preterists?? I don't neccessarily agree with the eschatology of the books but they do give me a sudden urge to rush out my front door and yell "REPENT AND BE SAVED BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!"

...and that can't be a bad thing can it??

No, only a few here are preterists. Some of us are dispensationalists who realize the Left Behind series misses most of the whole point of the Tribulation -- the Jews. For some reason, the authors seem to think everything hinges on all these Gentiles, with a token Jew thrown in here and there.

I read the books when I first came to Christ. I grew out of it.

[Dee Dee Warren]

I think we actually have a few historicists thrown into the mix as well.

[Rubens]

Righto. Jews, Gentiles, misses the point. Got it.

(Sigh) this whole Preterist vs. Dispy vs. Futurist vs.bigamist vs. pre-/post/pan trib vs. LaHaye is a looney- thing is getting me down. Can't wait until we get to heaven where no doubt most of us will be saying "OHHH... NOW I geddit!!"

I promise I too will grow out of the Left Behind series as soon as I have put them down. Then I will get back to this Herodotus fellow and read more about how Egyptian women used to pee standing up.

Trying to stick to the purpose of the thread here, has anyone read Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?

Well, I have my own eschatological view, based on this "fictional" publication; you know how God's perfect number (& the Heptadic structure) is 7? And you know how the beast's number is 666, which is regarded as representing the trinity of evil, 6 being one less than God's perfect number?

Well, in

Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

a giant super-computer is commissioned to answer the Great Question of Life, The Universe and Everything. The computer takes four and a half million years and comes up with the answer: 42.

42 is 7 x 6!! Good vs Evil!! Geddit? I think Adams is onto something here!! Step aside, LaHaye.

Thank you for letting me share.

[Patroclus]

Herodotus is the author.

[Faramir]

Yesterday @ 02:32 AM post located here
Rubens:

I'm reading a book called Herodotus- The Histories but I dunno who wrote it, I can't see the author's name anywhere... oh wait, here it is..."Penguin Classics" (sounds Norwegian).

This guy sounds like a travel writer for Lonely Planet 480 B.C. He's been everywhere, including places that 'aint no more! Some great historical underpinning for the Bible, especially Daniel and co.

That brings back memories. I had to read that in the original Greek in college. (Don't ask for details, that was too long ago)Very interesting read.

Today @ 01:25 AM post located here
Rubens:

Trying to stick to the purpose of the thread here, has anyone read Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?

Well, I have my own eschatological view, based on this "fictional" publication; you know how God's perfect number (& the Heptadic structure) is 7? And you know how the beast's number is 666, which is regarded as representing the trinity of evil, 6 being one less than God's perfect number?

Well, in a giant super-computer is commissioned to answer the Great Question of Life, The Universe and Everything. The computer takes four and a half million years and comes up with the answer: 42.

42 is 7 x 6!! Good vs Evil!! Geddit? I think Adams is onto something here!! Step aside, LaHaye.

Thank you for letting me share.

HHGTTG is great . I think you might be right about that computer. Does that mean that Marvin the robot is the beast?

[GrayPilgrim]

The only thing I remember from Herodotus is the story of Gyges (its been six years adn I didn't exactly read it with a close eye to all the details.

GP

[Rubens]

Yesterday @ 04:26 PM post located here
Patroclus:

Herodotus is the author.

Thanks...I actually knew that, I was being flippant! Like an mild academic joke, you know, who wrote the Bible, that sort of thing.

HHGTTG is great . I think you might be right about that computer. Does that mean that Marvin the robot is the beast?

No, Marvin the Paranoid Android is possibly one of the two witnesses because he constantly states the obvious.

[efta777]

Currently right now I'm working my way through "The Birth of Christianity" by John Dominic Crossan; it's very interesting, though supposedly controversial (Though I don't think I've gotten to any of the really controversial stuff).
Also, whatever insanely challenging texts come up for my killer English Theory class.

[John Reece]

Re-reading: Jesus and the Victory of God, by N.T. Wright.

[geebob]

God only wise by william lane craig and Metaphysics by Michael J loux.

Metaphysics is a particularly difficult read.

[AVmetro]

I finished God Crucified by Richard Baukham and am now about half way finished with Robery Morey's book The Trinity, Evidence and Issues. I'd give it *** because I'll go back to it for reference. After that I plan to read James White's The Forgotten Trinity. If my wife will let me order it, Larry Hurtado's One God One Lord.

Would anyone recommend N.T. Wright's Climax of the Covenant?

[Dee Dee Warren]

The White book is excellent. The Morey book is excellent in some points and weak in others. He makes some bad arguments for the Trinity and some very good ones. It is a mixed bag. I have only posiitve things to say about the God Crucified book, it revolutionized my Christology.

[Freak]

I just finished reading The Death of the West by James J. Buchanan and my recently published book, Exploring the Unknown, the Strange, and the Supernatural by me, Jay Bartlett.