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Originally Posted by Cassidy
Ohio> Could you please rethink your position on "Examining LSM's Eschatology ..." and re-address some specifics that we can discuss, with specific references to Tomes' paper?
Ohio,
I would have been delighted to address the specifics of Tomes' alternative interpretation of Rev 2 & 3.... except he did not provide one. He said what he was against... but not what he was for. That is not scholarship, that is an Op Ed.
Many writers have already made a compelling case for the prophetic interpretation of Rev 2 and 3. I believe they rightly divided the word on those chapters. Tome's points about white man's religion, European-view, pentecostal history, Africa, China, etc. are part of a non sequitur fallacy. An interesting history lesson... and that is all.
If you wish to present specifics of his interpretation of Rev 2 & 3 I will be glad to discuss it with you. That would be refreshing. Or if you wish to discuss the specifics of my objections to Tomes' presentation and arguments that would be fine too. That is why I posted them. However, if you, like Tomes, are only interested in dismissing the prophetic interpretation held by many credible biblical scholars without providing an alternative interpretation then there is nothing to rethink.
Thanks
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Like I said, Tomes is well within his rights to
only discuss Lee's flawed teachings in his papers. If you disagree with this, then please be fair and post a few comments about LSM's
A&C.
I just took a class on Revelations at a local Bible school. The dean taught the course, and he
did not interpret the 7 churches prophetically as Nee/Lee have done. I can't speak for the whole of the body of Christ, but I think most Christians read these 7 letters just as they read the other epistles of the New Testament, e.g. they would not dismiss the letters to Ephesus, Smyrna, and Pergamos claiming that these churches no longer exist in our times, as both Nee and Lee have done.
I have read extensively of Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, and never would I consider that they were the fulfillment of the Philadelphian prophetic letter. On the contrary, the mean-spirited accusations and narrow-minded judgments of the exclusives are anything but brotherly love. It was these same exclusives who attempted to convince us that they were the modern day Philadelphia. A little self-serving wouldn't you say?