{"id":505,"date":"2012-11-04T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2012-11-04T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:24:03","slug":"the-end-times-made-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2012\/the-end-times-made-simple","title":{"rendered":"The End Times Made Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t be bothered to scan the cover of The End Times Made Simple<\/em><\/a>, by Samuel E. Waldron, for a brief review of an 80\/20 read like this.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe the book can be summed up by the following excerpt:<\/p>\n

Christians may put aside their assumptions that biblical eschatology is too complex for them.\u00c2\u00a0 There are only two ages – one temporal and natural, the other eternal and supernatural, separated by the second coming, and resurrection.\u00c2\u00a0 If one grasps this, one knows vastly more than most of the so-called “prophetic teachers” of our day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Waldron make a good case for Amillenialism, mostly by elimination of the alternatives (particularly dispensationalism), though I wish he’d lay it out graphically somewhere as his position.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a few good graphs, but some illustrate what he believes to be incorrect positions, and there’s no quick and easy way to tell.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, the omission of an index is a glaring defect of an otherwise readable and well-argued book.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m keeping the book, but don’t expect it to see any use anytime soon, unless the topic comes up or someone wants to borrow it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t be bothered to scan the cover of The End Times Made Simple, by Samuel E. Waldron, for a brief review of an 80\/20 read like this.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe the book can be summed up by the following excerpt: Christians may put aside their assumptions that biblical eschatology is too complex for them.\u00c2\u00a0 There are only two ages – one temporal and natural, the other eternal and supernatural, separated by the second coming, and resurrection.\u00c2\u00a0 If one grasps this, one knows vastly more than most of the so-called “prophetic teachers” of our day. Waldron make a good case for Amillenialism, mostly by elimination of the alternatives (particularly dispensationalism), though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}