February 14, 2007
I oddly admire certain things about Baptists. I admire their crazy eschatology for the simple reason that at the heart of it is a belief that Jesus really could return at any minute. Honestly, if Jesus actually did return today, 95% the Lutherans, Presbyterians, Catholics, Orthodox, and Anglicans in the world would be completely dumbfounded, despite being orders of magnitude more orthodox in our abstract formulations of eschatology. An actual return in our lifetimes just doesn’t fit into our outlook. Heck, there’s a whole system of theology out there explaining why it won’t be now or any time in the near future. But the Baptists would be saying “I knew you were coming soon!” That’s gotta be worth something.
Confessing Evangelical » Blog Archive » Perhaps today! said,
February 19, 2007 @ 7:06 am
[...] This may go some way to explaining the observation made by a certain “Pirate” on the BHT the other day, concerning Southern Baptists: I oddly admire certain things about Baptists. I admire their crazy eschatology for the simple reason that at the heart of it is a belief that Jesus really could return at any minute. Honestly, if Jesus actually did return today, 95% the Lutherans, Presbyterians, Catholics, Orthodox, and Anglicans in the world would be completely dumbfounded, despite being orders of magnitude more orthodox in our abstract formulations of eschatology. An actual return in our lifetimes just doesn’t fit into our outlook. Heck, there’s a whole system of theology out there explaining why it won’t be now or any time in the near future. But the Baptists would be saying “I knew you were coming soon!” That’s gotta be worth something. [...]