Some Friendly Advice to a Campingite by loquat1 ..... End Times Discussion
Date: 1/11/2019 4:15:45 PM ( 5 y ago)
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My dear Bill, you claim you are not deluded, but that it is we, your detractors, who are deluded. Then please explain. If you are the sole repository of Biblical truth, how is it that all your end-time dates have failed? All your 'teachers' (including Camping, McCann and Eiji), have been proved false by this one simple, undeniable fact. To maintain, in the teeth of what is clearly staring you in the face - that these are the best Bible teachers in the world - not only runs counter to the testimony of the Scriptures that you claim to faithfully represent (eg in Dt 18; Jer. 14, 23, 28 and 29, etc etc), but is also symptomatic of the highest form of delusion. You are incapable of acknowledging the truth even when your prophets spectacularly fail. And all that is quite apart from all the NT warnings against date-setting, which could not be clearer for those who have eyes to see.
So let me ask you this simple question. If the 'church age' ended in 1988 (or whenever you now claim that happened) - precisely what purpose is being served by the continuing extension of this age? Should not God have called time on this age by now if the number of the elect is complete? That is, after all, the direct implication of 2 Peter 3, is it not? Peter is quite clear: the only reason we are all still here is that God is patient, and not willing that any should perish. So unlike your little faction, God clearly expects many more to be saved, does He not? And all the evidence around the world, especially in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, proves that He is correct. Conversely, it also proves that you are tragically mistaken.
No, I'm afraid I must stand by my charge that yours is a 'strong delusion', and the scales will not fall from your eyes until you jettison your misguided devotion to your false teachers. Not only is your reliance on them a severe case of the blind leading the blind, but it is also convincing prima facie evidence of a powerful cultic tendency as defined by all the experts in the field. I refer you, for example, to A A Hoekema's 'The Four Major Cults', wherein he describes in detail the fundamental traits of a cult that you yourself exhibit only too clearly. You would do well to study this book, since it could well prove your only means of escaping your delusion.
Regardless, I bear neither you nor your partners in exegetical crimes any ill will, and also wish you all the best. My beef is not with you personally, but the false teachings that have patently enslaved you. My hope is that you will find the motivation and strength to pay some heed to my reading recommendation above, and who knows, you might then find your own way out of your self-inflicted maze.
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