APOCALYPTICAL OR HYPOCRITICAL

I am not a fan of people who write fictitious novels based on the Bible, the reason being, if it's not the truth how can anyone believe the real thing? It is difficult to understand why these authors then have the audacity to criticise others who do the same thing, judge for yourself...

END TIME AUTHORS HAVE LITTLE FAITH IN 'REVELATIONS'
Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, authors of Tyndale House's best-selling "Left Behind" series, have expressed reservations about NBC's new apocalyptic miniseries Revelations, scheduled to debut Wednesday at 9 p.m. So does Hank Hanegraaff, co-author of The Last Disciple, a book that was criticized heavily by LaHaye.

Revelations follows the efforts of Sister Josepha Montafiore, a globe-trotting nun played by Natascha McElhone, and Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard astrophysicist played by Bill Pullman, to determine whether the end of the world is near. Jenkins called the show "a mishmash of myth, silliness and misrepresentations of Scripture."

He added: "Acknowledging that not everyone agrees with my particular take on end time prophecies, at least they are based on some commonly accepted study. Revelations seems to draw from everywhere and nowhere." LaHaye said the "story is based on some writer's imagination about the book of Revelation. However, the writer clearly has not studied the book or, maybe even, read it."

Author and radio host Hanegraaff, known as "The Bible Answer Man," said he was concerned about the faulty theology the show presents. Hanegraaff, who wrote The Last Disciple with Sigmund Brouwer, also published by Tyndale House, said "the devil (in the series) is virtually deified, manifesting near omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence, creating an implicit dualism in which good and evil are equal and opposite forces."

A full story will appear in the May 2 issue of Christian Retailing.