That antichrist thing again

[dianeduane]

This came up the other day. Now I see that Mark Evanier has had an email about it too.

But then Mark does one of the things he does best and asks the next question.   

Tags: Mark+Evanier, religion, humor, Barack+Obama, antichrist, end+times, noncanonical, election, 2008

Comments

[karenthology.livejournal.com]

What people often forget is that Jesus once said, "you shall not know the day nor the hour."

[dewline.livejournal.com]

There was another "next question" I remember some novelist posing in the course of one of their works: something about how in order to have your fated-by-Revelations Kingdom Come, you had to have your Apocalypse...and the Anti-Christ who ushered it in, first. So what's a good Christian to do in the face of that logic?

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, beat me to it!

Hey, maybe this isn't anti-propaganda by McCain. Maybe it's a cunning plan by Obama's team to get the Bible Belt on side?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

If it is, this book's author (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/victor-koman/jehovah-contract.htm) ought to be getting a payment from the Obama campaign team for the usage of the idea. The author posited an entire church based upon the concept as a sidebar to the main plot. :-)

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned below to another commentator, that logic only applies to a very new, very flawed school of theology. There are many, many other schools of eschatology that do not require an Antichrist.

[kayshapero]

Thank you for pointing that out. Sometimes I feel like I'm alone out here.

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

Why fancy meeting you here!

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

Besides, isn't the antichrist a necessary component to the whole end-times thing where all the elect are offered a lift on that elevator to Heaven whilst the rest of us sinners wallow in our own shame and have lots of fun parties? I thought your average born-again Christian was all for bringing on that sort of thing?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been wondering if this will backfire for that reason. These are people who support Israel for the soul purpose of bringing about the end-times, after all.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

And if/when the Rapture actually happens...what'll they do if they don't find themselves exclusively and utterly in the ranks of the Elect?

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

"What if They Held a Rapture and Nobody Came?" *giggle*

-- Steve probably should've waited for more coffee before posting.

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

Only according to premillennial dispensationalist eschatology. There are a LOT of other views on the End Times and the Second Coming than those popularized by American Evangelicals. And some of them actually have Biblical basis. Take THAT, premillennial dispensationalism!

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

Well, do they expect the Antichrist to get cheap haircuts? He's got to go to some creative barbers to hide his horns.