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Bible Vendor
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Do you remember Edgar Whisenant?
From Wiki Whisenant (September 25, 1932 – May 16, 2001[citation needed]) was an American NASA engineer and Bible student from Little Rock, Arkansas, who predicted the rapture and World War III would occur during Rosh Hashanah in 1988, sometime between September 11 and September 13. Through studying the Bible and using numerology, he gathered 23,000 clues which he used to predict the date.
I met Whisenant personally. I had also interviewed him on my radio show back in 1988.
Yes, he was a NASA engineer - thus he was no dummy. HE told me he had stopped attending church so he could spend as much time as possible to study his Bible in his search for the timing of the Rapture. Unless, I missed it - I don't think the rapture has yet happened.
So all that study he did for years - his ended up with his theology being wrong. Sometimes we have to admit that others may know more than we do.
Two last thing withing 2 weeks of his predication, I asked him - if the Lord does not return - would he come back and do an interview on my radio show. Well, as we know, it did not happen. So I called him back - never got an answer.
Also, many will state - "No man knoweth the day or the hour..." Well, he never claimed to know the day or the hour - he claimed to only know the week ! NICE LOOPHOLE! But you know, I did like Edgar as a person - he was very nice. In fact he had told me that Syracuse would be his last public appearance as he would have to get home and take care of things - including making provisions for his dog!
Excellent post. We have folks with "credentials" (such as a NASA engineer) who hold mistaken views. We must judge them not by their pedigree, but on the content of their views. Such as no one knows the time....
Again, great post
I stand by my question to BibleVendor about his credentials to be called a "Bible scholar." I know many genuine faculty members at Bible colleges and Seminaries, some with high degrees and great production of articles and books. Not one single faculty member or genuine scholar I know calls himself a scholar! I've lectured with them, attended academic conferences with them, read scholarly papers with them. Yet BibleVendor calls himself a scholar, then says he is proud of being one, but does not tell us why he deserves to be called that. "Pride" = "Arrogance." Oh, right, he said he knows how to read the Bible. Okay.
In my world, you have to have academic credentials to be hired as a professor. A BA is an absolute minimum for a college prof, with a master's degree of some kind preferred. A doctorate or decades of experience (my way) is preferable for teaching graduate school or seminary. To get a BA and MA takes at least 6 years of your life, many, many thousands of dollars, and thousands of hours sitting in class, taking tests, writing papers, doing other homework, etc. (That is, unless you buy your "diplomas" on the Internet.
) 15 years or so after getting his BA, MA, MDiv, and PhD, my scholar son still owes 1000s of dollars on that PhD. But it was worth it to him. He delights in teaching these precious young people to serve the Lord, as do I.
We just had our graduation exercises, and I am so proud of these precious young people I have had a part in training. Any one of them could run circles around the naysayers here on the BB in Bible and theology knowledge, and service and dedication for Christ.
People like BibleVendor and Van have not a single clue about what it takes to be a real, genuine Bible scholar: the dedication, the years, the bills, the praying and serving God. (You can't get hired at a Bible college without years of serving the Lord.) So they criticize and complain and claim untrue things. Do I sound offended? I am. "These things ought not so to be."
In my world, you have to have academic credentials to be hired as a professor. A BA is an absolute minimum for a college prof, with a master's degree of some kind preferred. A doctorate or decades of experience (my way) is preferable for teaching graduate school or seminary. To get a BA and MA takes at least 6 years of your life, many, many thousands of dollars, and thousands of hours sitting in class, taking tests, writing papers, doing other homework, etc. (That is, unless you buy your "diplomas" on the Internet.
) 15 years or so after getting his BA, MA, MDiv, and PhD, my scholar son still owes 1000s of dollars on that PhD. But it was worth it to him. He delights in teaching these precious young people to serve the Lord, as do I.We just had our graduation exercises, and I am so proud of these precious young people I have had a part in training. Any one of them could run circles around the naysayers here on the BB in Bible and theology knowledge, and service and dedication for Christ.
People like BibleVendor and Van have not a single clue about what it takes to be a real, genuine Bible scholar: the dedication, the years, the bills, the praying and serving God. (You can't get hired at a Bible college without years of serving the Lord.) So they criticize and complain and claim untrue things. Do I sound offended? I am. "These things ought not so to be."
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