"Left Behind" books. . .

[Jade]

Do you like them?
Do you read them even though you disagree theologically/soteriologically?
Do you totally dislike them?


P.S. Tomorrow, April 8, 2003, book 11 ARMAGEDDON: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages, will be available for purchase.

[Woman]

You didn't have enough catagories.

Where's the one that says "biggest rip-off of the gullible in the last decade?"

[brother vinny]

Today @ 08:37 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=58488#post58488)
Woman:

You didn't have enough catagories.

Where's the one that says "biggest rip-off of the gullible in the last decade?"

I think that singular and dubious honor belongs to the first two films of the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy.

[Epoetker]

I preferred The Third Millenium, actually. Always more punchy and more concise when it's written by a Jew.

Then again, The Fourth Millenium was stretching it a bit.

[Jin-Roh]

They're up to book eleven now? Well, even if they're as horrible as so many people saw, that's still a huge series.

[Patroclus]

Hey Woman, you got my post of the day.

http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2903

[Solly]

So, like, there's this group of people, and see, they think they're going to get, like, transported off the planet suddenly, before some really bad things happen. Like. You know, space arks and all that. And it's going to be really rough, and they are like just so happy that they won't go through it. But then, like, they want to read all about it, so these guys, see, they write some books, so the Church can vicariously go through the tribulation.
































Go figure...

[Bill the Cat]

That's not nice Solly!! Tsk Tsk Tsk.

[Lizard]

Today @ 04:25 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=58711#post58711)
Solly:

So, like, there's this group of people, and see, they think they're going to get, like, transported off the planet suddenly, before some really bad things happen. Like. You know, space arks and all that. And it's going to be really rough, and they are like just so happy that they won't go through it. But then, like, they want to read all about it, so these guys, see, they write some books, so the Church can vicariously go through the tribulation.
































Go figure...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[John Reece]

Solly,

:thumb:

[brother vinny]

:argh:

[Solly]

Poor old Vinny. If you can't beat 'em, ya probably ain't hittin them hard enough. :yipee:

[Woman]

Patroclus:

Hey Woman, you got my post of the day.

*blushing thanks*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Solly - :rofl:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Rin-Joh:

They're up to book eleven now? Well, even if they're as horrible as so many people saw, that's still a huge series.
uh-huh....and size is like really, really indicative of...what, exactly?

:brow:

[$cirisme]

They're not as good as they used to be.

Depending on how good this one is will tell me whether or not I will finish the series.

[Patroclus]

Solly, your posts on this thread were singularly amazing.

Cirisme,

If you get through the eleventh book, you might as well finish the series. The plan is to publish 13.

[The Curtmudgeon]

The poll needs another category: "I've heard of them, but I'm not reading them until the whole series is out and I can read them through at one go."

I get really tired of series that come out one book a year (or longer) and seem to go on forever (not just LB, but also the 'Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan, et al.). By the time the next book comes out, I've read too many other books to remember much of the thread and have to re-read all the previous books again--just to do it all over again the following year, ad infinitum nauseum. So while I have no a priori objection to LB, I'm not touching them until I can sit down with the complete series and run through them just once.

The (also, I can pick 'em up used for a song then) Curtmudgeon

[dizzle]

Solly now that was funny and observant. "Vicariously going through the Tribulation." :rofl:

Now is that what a preterist is doing when we read Wars of the Jews?

[John Reece]

Dee Dee,

You scored a big one!

:thumb:

[Sozo]

Solly...

That should be "Post of the Month"!!!

Having been a part of a charasmatic church for many years, it always struck me as strange that the Pastor would give a 90 minute sermon on the rapture amid the roar of applause, Praise the Lords, and hallelujahs! Then there would be the praying and laying on of hands for sister (somebody's) cancer.

I guess some Christians don't want to go be with Jesus unless they get to take everyone else with them!

[dizzle]

And Sozo has 661 posts... the dreaded number approacheth.

[Sozo]

Today @ 07:04 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=60240#post60240)
Dee Dee Warren:

And Sozo has 661 posts... the dreaded number approacheth.


662

Don't get "left behind" folks!

[dizzle]

[only four more to go]

[Ric]

I've been checking out the audio books from my library. :thumb:



























Looking at the sky, waiting to fly! :angel:

[$cirisme]

If you get through the eleventh book, you might as well finish the series. The plan is to publish 13.

I thought it was 12? :huh:

I guess you're right, I have gone this far. :hrm:

[Patroclus]

I stopped by the Christian Bookstore at which I used to work. One of the ladies told me that it was twelve.

[Bill the Cat]

The new one is due out real soon

[$cirisme]

It was out the 8th.

Okay I read it. They have a knack for killing the ones I like, just as I am starting to like them. This time, they killed four or five of them. :hrm: Since I've gone this far, I'll probably read the next one. :argh:

[Solly]

Be kinda funny if the Lord came back just before the last one is released.

Millions now living will never read volume 13

[Hitch]

04-08-2003 @ 02:37 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=58488#post58488)
Woman:

You didn't have enough catagories.

Where's the one that says "biggest rip-off of the gullible in the last decade?" PERF!

H

[Hitch]

I wonder how many of LaHaye's readers know he originally identified the WWI generation as the Terminal Generation? Or if it would matter to them.

H

[$cirisme]

Today @ 10:01 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=64138#post64138)
Solly:

Be kinda funny if the Lord came back just before the last one is released.

Millions now living will never read volume 13

No one will, there are only 12.

:tongue:

[Sher]

Today @ 11:58 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=64129#post64129)
cirisme:

It was out the 8th.

Okay I read it. They have a knack for killing the ones I like, just as I am starting to like them. This time, they killed four or five of them. :hrm: Since I've gone this far, I'll probably read the next one. :argh: Cirisme! You are so wrong ...

... at least you didn't say which ones.

[$cirisme]

Today @ 12:34 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=64252#post64252)
SherBear:

Cirisme! You are so wrong ...

... at least you didn't say which ones.

Are you reading it?

[Sher]

Yesterday @ 03:52 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=64327#post64327)
cirisme:

Are you reading it? Not yet ... I still have the two before it to get through ... along with the other dozen or so books that I read at once :teeth:

[Patroclus]

Just for laughs, I flipped into the latest book and read a paragraph. I know on which page __________ ___________. He he he...

[Sher]

Yesterday @ 09:32 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=65543#post65543)
Patroclus:

Just for laughs, I flipped into the latest book and read a paragraph. I know on which page __________ ___________. He he he...
:tongue: Phhhhhh...

[joelkaki]

Honestly, I really really don't like them. No 1 because I disagree totally with the theology. I don't think there is going to be pretty much anything like what is described there. No 2, I just don't like em.

Joel

[Em7add11]

I read books 1-7 or so and just got bored.

[Lizard]

I got an e-mail yesterday to register to win the complete set.

I hope I win. :yipee:

[dizzle]

Egad man!! Do you get the chart too? That is death to a preterist. Listen to me, it is an evil trap.

[Solly]

What, charts or "Left Behind" comps?

[Lizard]

Don't worry Dee Dee. It was LaHaye's "Revelation Unvieled" that started my journey to preterism.

Charts? Charts? We don't need no stinkin' charts.

[dizzle]

Guess what this is?? Look closely...

This is a preterist prophecy chart

[dizzle]

You credit LaHaye for pushing you over the edge? I credit Jerry Shugart.

[geochron]

I read the synopses on the backs in airport bookshops. I think this is all I need to know. I may read the last pages of the last one, just to find out what happens. I'm betting it ends "And he woke up and it was all a dream".

[Jade]

Today @ 05:37 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=74098#post74098)
geochron:

...I'm betting it ends "And he woke up and it was all a dream".

The Thief In the Night movie series started with that plot, so the second movie (A Distant Thunder) was almost an exact copy except the 2nd wasn't a dream.

[GrayPilgrim]

Well I finished Armageddon last night. I think that this one is better written than some of the others. Still not great literature, but it does dispel some of the criticisms. I have written stuff in white so as not to spoil anything for those who have not read them yet and intend to.

+ highlight below to read spoiler information
Killing Chloe, Ben Judah, Buck and Rayford pobably showed a more acurate picture than keepig them alive so I think they listened to some criticism. By accurate I mean that up to this point they were more superhuman than real and this way they showed that death coems for us all this side of the Parousia. I did find it bothersome that these guys wanted to fight though as it seems rather they should have been praising God as there redemption drew near, so I still find them to be theologically trite and all, but heck a book I can read it five hours is not going ot be the deepst or best book either.
+highlight above to read spoiler stuff

[nomad]

i read the first one, and then re-read 'the fellowship of the ring' to clear my head :)

i don't mind theological blunders in literature so much (it IS fiction after all, regardless of whether some people treat it as such or not), and if i did care i couldn't read any mythology, or dune, or anything like that. i treat it like science fiction; most of it does have some sort of philosophical point, often not christian, but sometimes even if i don't agree with their point i can enjoy the stories.

but i just didn't find it engaging.

[$cirisme]

I, too, will be writing this in white. This is addressed to GP...

Killing Chloe, Ben Judah, Buck and Rayford...

You sure they killed all three? There has been some debate to whether it was Buck or Rayford that died on the last page, but I don't think both. Besides, Buck was promised he would live to see the Glorius Appearing. Maybe it was a slow death? :shrug:

:smile:

[GrayPilgrim]

Back To Ciris

You could be right about not killing Buck, I thought that their injuries were close enough that it would be a similar death so it is hard to tell. They may have only kiled one of them. When did Buck get this promise? I forgot it, but then I have a hard time remembering much detail in the series :huh: