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.p001 '''Ch01 The Destructive Racket of Rapture''' .p007 Interior Secretary [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt | James G. Watt ]] "use it or lose it", chief preoccupation is counting down to earth's violent end. .p007 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter | Anne Coulter's ]] 'God:' "Take it. Rape it. It's yours."" .p009 Genesis 8:21 "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind ... nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done." .p010 The Bible's message is not that "God so loved the world that he sent World War III" .p012 "Beam me up" theology ... [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism | Manicheism ]] .p013 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_L._Moody | Dwight L. Moody ]] shipwreck analogy ... theology of despair .p014 ''Left Behind'' mentality ... only born-again individuals matter. .p016 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther | Martin Luther: ]] "If I knew the word were going to end tomorrow I would plant a tree" . apocryphal, first quoted by Martin Schloemann(?) in the 1940's? .p017 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny | Pliny the Younger ]] to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan | Trajan ]] Christians "pledge themselves by an oath not to engage in any crime ... pay their legal debts' .p019 '''Ch02 The Invention of Rapture''' .p020 [[ | ]] .p021 [[ | ]] .p021 [[ | ]] .p022 [[ | ]] .p023 [[ | ]] .p023 [[ | ]] .p024 [[ | ]] .p024 [[ | ]] .p026 [[ | ]] .p027 [[ | ]] .p028 [[ | ]] .p028 [[ | ]] .p029 [[ | ]] .p030 [[ | ]] .p032 [[ | ]] .p032 [[ | ]] .p033 [[ | ]] .p034 [[ | ]] .p035 [[ | ]] .p036 [[ | ]] |
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.p037 [[ | ]] .p037 [[ | ]] .p040 [[ | ]] .p040 [[ | ]] .p045 [[ | ]] .p047 '''Ch03 The Rapture Script for the Middle East''' .p051 [[ | ]] .p053 [[ | ]] .p055 [[ | ]] .p057 [[ | ]] .p060 [[ | ]] .p061 [[ | ]] .p062 [[ | ]] .p064 [[ | ]] .p071 [[ | ]] .p073 [[ | ]] .p073 [[ | ]] .p077 [[ | ]] .p079 [[ | ]] .p080 [[ | ]] .p081 [[ | ]] .p082 '''Ch04 Prophecy and Apocalypse''' .p082 [[ | ]] .p084 [[ | ]] .p085 [[ | ]] .p086 [[ | ]] .p087 [[ | ]] .p088 [[ | ]] .p090 [[ | ]] .p090 [[ | ]] .p091 [[ | ]] .p092 [[ | ]] .p093 [[ | ]] .p093 [[ | ]] .p095 [[ | ]] .p096 [[ | ]] .p097 [[ | ]] .p097 [[ | ]] .p098 [[ | ]] .p103 '''Ch05 The Journey Begins''' .p105 [[ | ]] .p106 [[ | ]] .p107 [[ | ]] .p108 [[ | ]] .p109 '''Ch06 Lamb Power''' .p109 [[ | ]] .p111 [[ | ]] .p111 [[ | ]] .p115 '''Ch07 Nonviolence''' .p117 [[ | ]] .p118 [[ | ]] .p119 [[ | ]] .p119 [[ | ]] .p123 '''Ch08 The Exodus Story in Revelation''' .p127 [[ | ]] .p128 [[ | ]] .p130 [[ | ]] .p131 [[ | ]] .p133 [[ | ]] .p123 '''Ch09 Hijacking the Lamb''' .p136 [[ | ]] .p136 [[ | ]] .p137 [[ | ]] .p139 [[ | ]] .p139 [[ | ]] .p141 '''Ch10 Rapture In Reverse''' .p141 [[ | ]] .p142 [[ | ]] .p144 [[ | ]] .p145 [[ | ]] .p148 [[ | ]] .p149 [[ | ]] .p159 '''Ch11 The Journey Outward''' .p171 '''Epilogue DEBUNKING THE RAPTURE BY VERSE''' |
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The Rapture Exposed
The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation
Barbara R. Rossing, 2004, 236.9 ROS 2004
Harvard/Yale grad Rossing taught New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology of Chicago
Her goal for this book is to replace Left Behind distortion and bigotry with hopeful Christian ethics
p001 Ch01 The Destructive Racket of Rapture
p007 Interior Secretary James G. Watt "use it or lose it", chief preoccupation is counting down to earth's violent end.
p007 Anne Coulter's 'God:' "Take it. Rape it. It's yours.""
- p009 Genesis 8:21 "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind ... nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done."
- p010 The Bible's message is not that "God so loved the world that he sent World War III"
p012 "Beam me up" theology ... Manicheism
p013 Dwight L. Moody shipwreck analogy ... theology of despair
p014 Left Behind mentality ... only born-again individuals matter.
p016 Martin Luther: "If I knew the word were going to end tomorrow I would plant a tree"
- apocryphal, first quoted by Martin Schloemann(?) in the 1940's?
p017 Pliny the Younger to Trajan Christians "pledge themselves by an oath not to engage in any crime ... pay their legal debts'
p019 Ch02 The Invention of Rapture
p036 ref23 p189 Illinois Bishops' Statement on "Left Behind" Books and Videos
p047 Ch03 The Rapture Script for the Middle East
p082 Ch04 Prophecy and Apocalypse
p103 Ch05 The Journey Begins
p109 Ch06 Lamb Power
p115 Ch07 Nonviolence
p123 Ch08 The Exodus Story in Revelation
p123 Ch09 Hijacking the Lamb
p141 Ch10 Rapture In Reverse
p159 Ch11 The Journey Outward
p171 Epilogue DEBUNKING THE RAPTURE BY VERSE