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Book Review of Doomsday Delusions: What's Wrong With Predictions About the End of the World

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Apocalyptic literature , both fiction and nonfiction , is in abundance just about anywhere books are sold. Most deal with the end times or doomsday predictions that portend great disasters and calamities for the earth and its inhabitants. But are they correct?
Authors C. Marvin Pate (professor of Bible at Moody Bible Institute) and Calvin Haines Jr. (Assistant professor of communications at Moody Bible) offer a common sense and scholarly alternative to these predictions.
The book explores such subjects as How Doomsday Prophecy Goes Awry and Reading Current Events back into Biblical Prophecy.
There is a section on Doomsday Preaching and the question of interpretation as well as a chapter on Doomsday Prophecy and Theological balance.
Written in easy to read style the book does not bog you down with too many theological terms .
A section on William Miller and the Millerites of 1818 and David Koresh and the Branch Davidians shows how radical and even dangerous some of these end time prophecies can be.
The last chapter looks at the question How do we in the present century respond to the imminent return of Christ?.
If you would like to examine the flip side of end time Bible prophecies then this book may be of interest.