Reddit mentions of The End Is Near...Or Maybe Not!

Those are kooky fundamentalist views. We've simply never made a big deal of Revelation, we were suspicious of even having it in the canon.

A book I found useful for getting out of the dispensationalist mindset is this book by the Anglican (kindof) Bishop of Reddit [tagged the wrong user].

The tone can be a little informal at points, but it's written to help people open up to an alternative view, not as an exhaustive scholarly work.

Long story short, the Revelation was written in 90ish-AD to believers in 90-ish AD. It is as timelessly and endlessly applicable as any other teaching of the Scriptures, but it was not written to us. What arrogance on our part to assume such a thing.

Anyway, as a recovering Evangelical dispensationalist, I found it useful even if it's not EO doctrine.

It's really a different topic than this thread - but - I grew up hardline Dipsensationalist (all the "Left Behind" kind of stuff). My father was a pastor and at the age of 12 I was helping him study for his eschatology sermons. I was deep into it from 12 to about 25 (including my time at Bible College) and the deeper I got into it the less it made sense. At the age of 25 (while pastoring a small congregation in Wisconsin) I had a crisis of faith - I didn't believe the only thing I knew to believe about eschatology any more. I went on a year long spiritual/theological journey to discover what I did believe and am now a committed Amillennialist. Actually have written a book about it: The End Is Near...Or Maybe Not!

>[2] /u/im_just_saying has good thoughts on this. He's even written an easy-to-read book!

Link to the book. I highly recommend it.

Another good book - a bit of a quicker read and more of an introduction. Although, I can't recommend Wright's book enough.

Since /u/Im_just_saying is evidently away from his keyboard today, I'll go ahead and link to his excellent book The End Is Near...Or Maybe Not!

Here's a good book to read on the End Times...The End is Near...Or Maybe Not. I think you'll find it somewhat informative and interesting. It's pretty easy to read and tries to not get bogged down in semantics too much. Whether you agree with all of it or none of it or some of it doesn't matter as much as the fact that you'll be more informed.

For what it's worth to me a wrathful God goes against everything that Jesus did by dying on the cross. Judgment does not mean wrath. Also, tried really hard to find anything about trans people and bathrooms in the Bible. Pretty sure it's a non-issue.