Tim LaHaye Quotes
But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.
LaHaye, Tim. Interview by Larry King. Larry King Live, CNN, 11 Feb. 2002.
Olivi was a brilliant scholar who ran afoul of the religious authorities on several occasions. He was accused of being a heretic for his writings, but was exonerated after intensive trials and debates. In this quotation, he attributed the religious error of Jews and others, not to the anti-Christ, human venality, or even fault of character, but from a difference in human perspective. He was a pioneering original thinker, who while not well appreciated in his lifetime, had a significant cult following including several cardinals of The Church that arose after his death. However, other conservative forces then decided that he was a heretic after all. They burned his writings and destroyed his tomb. Today, there is a street in France named for him.
At the time, Luther was very favorable towards Jews. Later, he became disappointed. He could understand why the Jews would not accept Christ as their Savior when they had to do so according to the laws and rules of the Roman Catholic Church, but he was disappointed when after he offered the non corrupt version of Christianity, the Jews for the most part did not convert.
This is an interesting quotation as it shows that there were opponents of literal interpretation of the Bible in the 17th century, and that they were among the leading men of the day. The argument that the Bible has divine inspiration but was written by men and should not be taken literally, has been made since the Ancient Jews received the Bible.
In this quotation the founder of Protestantism criticizes other Christians for their anti-Semitism. Luther later became a virulent anti-Semite himself. See {629230}
If one adjusts for socioeconomic factors, it is the Asians who have the highest IQs in America, not the Jews.
This hatemonger’s writing against the Freemasons and the Jews where used by the American Catholic demagogue, Father Coghlen as a model. In Ireland, he could not obtain many supporters for his hateful and absurd ideas. His own Archbishop John Charles McQuaid said him: “He is not regarded as a man of balanced judgment.” Ireland was the first country to recognize the rights of minority faiths such as Judaism as equal with the majority faith in its constitution, but Fahey tried to organize a movement to change the constitution but could find few followers. Fahey was far less influential in Ireland than he was through Cather Coghlen in America.
Tim Francis LaHaye was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-authored with Jerry B. Jenkins.
