The Pandemic of End-Times Dysfunction (E.D.)

Joel McDurmon, hosting today's show for Gary DeMar, exposes End-times Dysfunction (E.D.) for what it is. Joel shares with doomsdayers how they can get relief from their paranoia and troubled souls.

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• 2012
• bible prophecy
• conquering evil
• postmillennialism
• end times
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• rapture
• preterism
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[tronprogram]

The Gary DeMar Show just got a lot better.

[TheGaryDeMarShow]

Thanks for your kind compliment.

[Chrispoirier]

erectile dysfunction?

[HaveUconsidered]

@MrBoudreaux1976

To simply make claims like you are is nothing more than rhetoric. To say that Dispensationalism is just some product of our impotent church and is a form of schizophrenia (pathology) is nonsense. One could just as easily make the same claims about your own particular twist of theology.

You're not "SAYING" anything. You're just making emotive and wild claims without any foundation. But then again, in a postmodern world, words don't have to "SAY" anything, right?

[MrBoudreaux1976]

@HaveUconsidered

I never claimed the early church didn't have issues nor did I claim these views were recent-however in the grand scheme the enlightenment wasn't so long ago . However we live with an ideological heritage from the modern and postmodern periods that has created pathologies specific to our era. Dispensationalsim seems to result in a culturally, historically, politically, artistically impotent church. One writer calls it schizophrenic theology, strong words worth considering.

[HaveUconsidered]

@MrBoudreaux1976

What the HECK are talking about??? Sounds like a bunch a intelligent sounding NONSENSE.

What does modernism/postmodernism have to do with anything?? FYI "Modernism" stretches back to the Enlightenment and before. Not exactly so recent a phenomenon. We've had "anxieties, despair, and apathy" since the very dawn of the early church. Ever read Corinthians? How about Revelation ch. 2 and 3??

I can't even make sense of your last sentence. WOW>>>>>>>>>

[MrBoudreaux1976]

Joel

Great job. I'm wrestling with how to gently lead people out of this view. In some contexts humor is a great tool. How to connect up the various pathologies we suffer from with our view of the Gospel. Hard and worthy work you are doing keep it up.

[MrBoudreaux1976]

@HaveUconsidered

Why not just laugh? And you must understand that Joel-and the good brothers at American Vision-see the pathologies of modern/postmodern Christianity, as the REAL CAUSES, of the anxiety, despair, and apathy so rampant in the church. Ask yourself what does it do to a Christian's psyche to believe that this Way that Christ gave us is culturally and historically impotent against the forces of Satan?

[HaveUconsidered]

@ihearttubing

That definition is not what theologians are referring to when they refer to Dualism (capital D) however which is the belief that there are two opposite deities that have been in a constant war since the beginning; one that is good (light, benevolent) and one that is evil (dark, malignant).

[ihearttubing]

@HaveUconsidered the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two. There is "Dualism" and then an infinite number of "dualism".

[HaveUconsidered]

I'm not a believer in Mayan prophecy either but your statement about the Mayan calendar stopping at 2012 because they ran out of room at the end of the building is funny.

(The Mayan calendar is round. Maybe the circle was to small.)

[HaveUconsidered]

You are also tying in LEGALISM in with dispensationalism which again, is totally false. If dispy's are guilty of anything, it's not legalism but in fact the opposite of taking liberty to far and turning "grace" into "cheap grace".