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The Left Behind movies may not have been great, but Cameron's newest movie, Fireproof, is WONDERFUL. (I saw a screening of it). It's one of the more powerful movies I've seen.

Go check it out Sept. 26.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"church basement movies," appropriate for a bottom-feeding eschatology that transforms Christians into unpaid cheerleaders for the other team.

The trouble with Tim Lahaye's genre of movies and books is that they are specifically focused on one particular interpretation of pre-millennial prophetic interpretation, promoting it against all others. For thousands of years, including the early history of the Church, as reflected in the writings of Ireneaus in his works against heresies, the early Church held the Classic pre-millennial view. LaHaye's views are fairly recent newcomers on the Christian scene, being a bit over 100 years old. It would seem we should pay more attention to Irenaeus's views, as he was a disciple of Polycarp, who was a disciple of the apostle John. Ireneaus's views were definitely very apostolic and in line with the original views of the Jerusalem Church founded by Jesus Christ himself. Why are these things never brought out, which "Christian Hollywood" tries to paint a different picture than was given to us in the beginning? UNITYINCHRIST.COM does have a section on pre-millennial prophecy which is more in line with Ireneaus's recorded interpretation of pre-millennial prophecy. Check it out to see the "other side" of the interpretive debate.

I don't know about the movie, but the first book was horrifying, and not in a scary thriller book way, but in it's racist-like assumptions. "The glorious, supernatural, born again race" (as I remember Kenneth Copeland glorifying one day while channel surfing), the Jesus race, the race of lightness, is snatched into a very exclusive, pearly gated community of many mansions, no doubt antebellum style, because God likes them best.

Meanwhile, the inferior supernatural race, the race behind every conspiracy theory, the race of darkness, the race made of unredeemed dust and mud, the race inherently unable to be good people, goes through the escalating bloody hells it so deserves for the sin of being born human, and/or of people keeping the the integrity of their religions and philosophies, or just being Gay. It's the worst of Christian Reconstructionism grafted onto the worst of premillennial eschatology, with endless glorification of macho consumerism and dubiously moral fantasies as a means to out maneuver the evil conspiracy.

Even worse, the writing was kind of clunky, though considering how it sold, obviously adequate for it's audience. But if I'm going to read dubiously moral novels, at the least they should attempt to have some art and style to them beyond the merely adequate.

Left Behind was shameless bigotry conceived by a man who had to leave his co-chairmanship of Jack Kemp's presidential campaign because of his shameless history of rank bigotry and dubious conspiracy theory mongering.

USE ALL THE "BIG" WORDS YOU WOULD LIKE PETE THESE BOOKS PUT REV. AND OTHER BOOKS IN THE BIBLE INTO TERMS ALOT OF PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND YOU KNOW CAUSE THATS "ADEQUATE" FOR THIS AUDIENCE, FURTHERMORE IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN CHRIST OR HIS BIBLE MAYBE YOU SHOULD READ SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE TRUTH. I'M THINKING HMM MAYBE YOU JUST DON'T LIKE THE AUTHORS.

Amen to Julie!!! I agree, you can use all the big words you want, but these books, and movies, have put the rapture, and what comes after into reality for a lot of people who do not know Christ, or have fallen away from Christ like I had. That is also why I dont know why the squabble over how the movies were made. Has both parties lost the whole concept over why this movie, and book were made in the first place, and that is to save souls. Lets iron this out fellas, and lets make more of these movies so the public will know the truth!!!!!

Indeed. However, may I suggest that it is known that the only genuine American Theology and doctrine is that of Pre-Millennial Dispensationalism as first posed by Darby and his translation (which by the way he received gladly and without hesitation by a "prophetess" in 1880 and never even bothered to search the Scriptures himself to see if what she prophesied was true), and later supported by Schofield. Also, the rapture teaching is based only on one verse in 1 Thes 4:16 which is taken out context not only from the immediate passage, but the Scriptures as a whole. If one wants to truly understand this passage,one has to consider the historical context in which the passage lies, and what Apostle Paul is truly stating. I am forced to disagree with you all due to the Scriptural evidence. The Left Behind Series spoon feeds the reader the theological hermeneutic of the authors along with bad theology.

For all those out there who are posting anti-christian rhetoric I would just like to add this. Darwin himself said these words exactly; "IF it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my hteory would absolutely break down." I know that not all non-christians beleive in evolution. As for those who do, I am not proving that my faith is all powerful by quoting the bible, I am simply pointing out your founding father's quote of common sense. Many will discredit this as they follow their faith... I mean evolution blindly.

Although I enjoy reading the Left Behind series I disagree with some of their theology. John 17:15 clearly states that Jesus wasn't going to take even the true christians out of the world before the tribulation, but PROTECT us from the evil one. Look for yourself if you don't believe me.