Patterson on Israel and the Christian's role
posted by Charlie Wallace at
6:47 PM
Thursday, January 12, 2006
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Patterson is a dispensational, right?
Forgive me. Make that "dispensationalist".
I am not 100% on that...I do know that He is pre-mil, pre-trib.
As i see it, there are a couple of big problems in this guy's argument. first, everything is premised on the christian bible, which isnt exactly going to convice someone who is not a christian (ie the palestinians and jews). second, i got excited when he said that israel should be more tolerant to other religions, but then he only mentioned a tolerance toward christianity. and that lead to the third thing, his 'solution' finished up with the idea of witnessing to the Arabs and jews. and by witnessing he is implies talking about the glory of jesus.
so whats the deal, do we tell the palestinians to get off the land entirely simply bc a book that some people believe in, but not them, says it belongs to the jews? or is he suggesting that people ought to bring jesus to the land and that will solve things through their conversion.
in either case, he is saying that the answers are found in christianity, not judaism and certainly not islam. such a position does not aide the current situation. or if his goal is just to argue for how christians ought to think about israel, then he is saying the word of jesus needs to be established there. and if thats his take, then i leave him with this quote: "[I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that] the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race" - John Cecil Rhodes from Confessions of Faith
I don't claim to agree with the entire article, I just found it interesting.
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