Left Behind: Review....sorta....

Wow! Have I found a live one! I found a blog in which an extreme critique of the Left Behind series takes place. The critique(r) is on Left Behind, pp. 25-27. There are some good/valid points throughout his critique. For instance, he mentions our hero's (Rayford Steele) plane loses 50 passengers, and they do not know what happened to them. RS radio's to another plane (coming from another direction) who knows exactly what is going on while RS never heard a thing on the radio until he initiates a call. The critique(r) also points out "LaHaye and Jenkins would have us believe that nearly 50 born-again, evangelical Christian millionaires were visiting Paris and were willing and able to spare no expense to return to New York City as fast, and in as much luxury, as humanly possible. This seems unlikely." I see his point. He moves on to say "The Concorde pilot is at least thinking straight. He compares the disappearances to: ... the old Star Trek shows where people got dematerialized and rematerialized, beamed all over the place. It was about time somebody mentioned this. Even if you're not Jim Trafficant or a fluent-in-Klingon obsessive, if you see people everywhere suddenly beam up and disappear, one of your first mental reference points is going to be remembering those transporter scenes from Star Trek. Your next logical thought should be that this would seem to imply someone, somewhere, doing the actual transporting and you might start scanning the sky for the mothership. No one in LB does this, however, because as already noted, all the characters in this story have read the book jacket and they know they're in a story about the rapture." It is obvious the critique(r) is not a believer. "Rapture enthusiasts stake their hopes on being whisked off to heaven like Enoch or Elijah. Technically, I suppose, that patriarch and prophet didn't "die," but this seems a rather fine distinction. L&J's raptured saints have taken their mortal coils with them, but they have still shuffled off; they have met their maker; they have joined the choir invisible; their earthly life has ended and they rest in peace. L&J cling to the hope that there is a shortcut from life to resurrection without that messy step in between." He needs to study the Bible. But when you study the Bible, remember 3 things: context, context, context The reason so many views about the Bible are skewed is too many people super-impose their own presupposition or pre-existing philosophy and apply it to the Bible - instead of allowing the Bible tell you exactly what it means. In regards to "People everywhere have disappeared. Orly lost air-traffic controllers and ground controllers. Some planes have lost flight crews. Where it's daylight there are car pileups, chaos everywhere. Planes down all over and at every major airport. ..." Someone makes this comment: "On the rapturing of air traffic controllers and flight crews...do the people who disappear believe/know their rapturing is imminent? It just seems to me that, if they did believe/know it, they shouldn't have been working in jobs where their disappearance would endanger others. Planes are crashing because bozos like this are being assumed into heaven? Knowingly putting other people in danger ought to automatically disqualify one from being raptured." Interesting statement. In some ways it's a good point, but others it's misworded at best. The commentor should have phrased it as "Knowingly putting other people in danger ought to automatically disqualify one from being a controller." But anyway, their points are hit or miss. Remember nonbelievers are going to think the 'Rapture' (and the like) is ludicrous and 'way out there'. But I say, does anyone believe in the 'Big Bang' theory? :) Anyway, take it or leave it, folks. The critique(r) seems not to have much to do during the day except being nit-picky about a ficticious book (even though the basis of the book is suppose to be biblical) - nonetheless it is fiction - nothing more than a good read.