From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com   
      
   On Friday, September 5, 2014 11:14:22 AM UTC-4, John W Kennedy wrote:   
   > Not educated mainstream Christians. It's entirely based on a "doctrine"    
   >    
   > no one ever heard of before the 1830s.   
      
   That statement's a tautalogy - and easily proven false. First, off the top of   
   my head, I know/knew four Baptist ministers with doctorates who held this   
   view. One wrote at least two books on doctrine; another was a proof-reader for   
   a major bible    
   translation (he compared the translation with the Greek); another could and   
   did translate from the Hebrew and Greek on the fly. I would say that all four   
   met the criteria of educated mainstream Christians. Second, the idea goes back   
   to at least the late    
   16th Century, thus it predates 1830 by over 200 years.   
      
   Whether or not this particular doctrine is correct is another matter, and one   
   that I daresay leads to a debate that has nothing to do with writing Science   
   Fiction and Fantasy, and probably would just generate a lot of heat.   
      
   BTW, if anyone's curious, I'm undecided. This, as with some other   
   eschatological doctrines, does have some merit, but that in itself does not   
   mean it's necessarily correct, only that it wasn't pulled out of thin air.   
      
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