'Da Vinci' not as dangerous as 'Left Behind'? - (BP)
FIRST-PERSON: 'Da Vinci' not as dangerous as 'Left Behind'? - (BP): "The more I hear from emerging church leader Brian McLaren, the more I fear he is not competent to be a leader of God’s people. Recently, he commented on the error-ridden 'The Da Vinci Code' by saying, “Frankly, I don’t think it has more harmful ideas in it than the Left Behind novels.'
The problem with what McLaren says here is that he cannot (or will not) distinguish what is malignant from what is benign. No one goes to hell merely for believing dispensational premillenialism, a theology of the end times that is portrayed in the 'Left Behind' novels. Yet anyone who denies the deity of Jesus most certainly will, and this is precisely what is argued in 'The Da Vinci Code.'
You don’t have to like dispensational premillenialism to see that its teachings about the end times do not come anywhere close to the damning heresy reflected in 'The Da Vinci Code.' Any pastor that cannot (or will not) see that isn’t competent to hold the office."
The problem with what McLaren says here is that he cannot (or will not) distinguish what is malignant from what is benign. No one goes to hell merely for believing dispensational premillenialism, a theology of the end times that is portrayed in the 'Left Behind' novels. Yet anyone who denies the deity of Jesus most certainly will, and this is precisely what is argued in 'The Da Vinci Code.'
You don’t have to like dispensational premillenialism to see that its teachings about the end times do not come anywhere close to the damning heresy reflected in 'The Da Vinci Code.' Any pastor that cannot (or will not) see that isn’t competent to hold the office."
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