??? Inerrancy and the Triumph of Communism

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On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, JRhoBurton wrote:


> JOHN

> A few years back, before the fall of "monolithic" communism, I thought that

> some of the fundamentalists were predicting that communism would take over the

> world, and that this was a Biblical prophecy.  Now that such an event seems

> unlikely, I've not heard such statements.  I've been unable to find any info.

> on this subject, which could in general be called, "Prophecy Interpretations

> That We'd Rather Forget About Because Recent Events Prove them Wrong" or

> something to that effect.  Anyone know of a good book, webpage, etc. on this

> subject?


Paul Boyer's book "When Time Shall be no More" is an excellent overview of
the whole pre-millenial/fundamentalist eschatalogical mindset. He dows
devote quite a bit of space to the issue of how the various "prophets"
adjusted their forecasts when it became apparent that the Soviet Union was
no more. He also shows that this was by no means unique. Throughout
history, Christians have seen the "signs of the times" in their own
generations, and have had to adapt when the expected end failed to
materialise.

If aynone is interested, I have a short list of current Doomsday
prophecies that are due to be fufilled (according to their proponents
anyway) in the near future. It is at
http://www.primenet.com/~heuvelc/skeptic/predictions.htm.

-Curt

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