They “create and support a separatist worldview in which all who disagree are deemed ‘the enemy.'” Finally, she says, “the mixed-up working theology of church members may thwart (and likely already has thwarted) healthy forward movement in congregations.” They “perpetuate a massive misunderstanding of the nature of Scripture and how Scripture should be studied,” she writes. While many readers view Left Behind as harmless fiction, Flesher, professor of Old Testament at the Baptist Seminary of the West, believes the novels do more harm than many pastors assume.
In Left Behind?: The Facts Behind the Fiction, author LeAnn Snow Flesher unearths theological underpinnings of the fiction series, challenges the authors’ claims they present the correct view of Bible prophecy and provides alternative methods for understanding the message of the biblical books of Daniel and Revelation.įlesher says the 14 novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, who have sold more than 60 million books, have become for many Americans a way for interpreting and coping with the terrorist attacks of September 2001. But a new book says millions of evangelicals are buying a marginal and fairly recent theology behind the “Left Behind” novels as if it were gospel truth.
Many Bible-believing Christians worried “The DaVinci Code” would blur the line between fiction and what the Bible says about the life of Jesus.
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