Encouraging Words from John Hagee...

I disagree with Hagee's eschatology. He does have a habit of jumping on a new Armageddon theme as world circumstances change. He was on the bandwagon of the Soviet Union being the deliverer of all things prophetic related to the antichrist and never uttered a peep about Islam until after 9-11. However, a lot of Baptists are off on that trail as well, including Tim LaHaye, who is further off in left field than Hagee on this subject.

However, I also disagree with the "write-off" attitude that a lot of people around here give out with regard to Hagee. God is clearly using his ministry to advance his kingdom, even though there are some doctrinal disagreements between his Charismatic position and that of Baptists. We all pretty much see through a glass darkly, at this point, and I think the approach to interpreting the scripture by the use of "sound" hermeneutical principles, from a Baptist perspective, is reliance on our own intelligence and is leaning on our own understanding in our attempt to understand the scripture. It's as flawed as the excesses in attempting to rely solely upon the Spirit, which is the Charismatic error.

To me, criticism of Hagee among Baptists is a sign of spiritual immaturity. I think we have a really distorted view of who the enemy is.

 

Sound hermeneutics prevent reliance on our own intellegence. Inventing analogies and phrophecies from incidental events amounts to leaning on one's own understanding. We should rely solely upon the Spirit. John Hagee may not be our enemy, but error is.

 

We do need to warned of false teachers....Attention everyone - Don't listen to John Hagee! How's that?


Concerning John 14 - you didn't answer the question, instead you ran with assumsions to another passage of scripture to support your already established assumstions of a rapture and the second coming being two separate events. John 14 says nothing of a rapture, it only says we will one day be with Jesus. But I will give you another shot at it?

Galatians 6:16 - Who are the Israel of God?

 

Who said this?: "Which things are an allegory"
Hint: it was an apostle.

There's nothing new about literalism. But all literalist positions that I know of, both then and now, must eventually fall back on allegory to complete their thesis.

What's new today is hyper-literalism. It's one-upmanship among dispensationalists.

Both Hagar and Sarah were literal people, as was Ishmeal and Isaac; but though they were literal people, and the events were literal events, yet they served as an allegory to express spiritual truth.

Visions are literal visions which express truth, but not literal events. Let allegories be allegories, and let visions be visions, and let prophecies be prophecies. That's all I'm saying. Stop force-feeding meanings that aren't there.