Hal on the Hot Seat: 11/14/2009

Hal Lindsey explains what he means when he refers to the Bible in the 'Original Greek.'

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• prophecy
• christianity
• israel
• islam
• muslim
• revelation
• rapture
• tribulation
• alexander
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• great
• greece
• macedonia

[zobcity01]

"Will this man ever be stopped.",

Absolutely he will. But until then we need to warn others of him. Most ppl i know already see thru his filthy gimmicks. He is rather delusional, sad but true. Like most, the greed for easy money from the gullable onlookers is the typical scenario what fuels his show. He is manifesting the scriptures what we were warned about.

[tomopotamus]

The word in question isn't κοιναί it's Κοινή, "common". Do you even know what the purpose of the IPA is? To say that they're wrong is silly. They transliterate words so that people can pronounce them in different languages.

Κοινή → kɔɪnɛ̝^ →ko-eh-neh-ah

Many English speakers though will pronounce it "koy-nay" because it flows better with the language than ko-eh-neh-ah does.

[31328]

the IPA English pronunciation, which is wrong yes, but my native language is Greek so don't tell me how to pronounce κοιναί...

[tomopotamus]

Actually, here is the IPA pronunciation for Koine: kɔɪnɛ̝^

That comes out to: ko-eh-neh-ah

[tomopotamus]

No, the lingua franca was Greek. Aramaic was the vernacular language in Palestine during the time of Christ.

[JohnFrancis25]

I beleive he made a number of false pedictions in his book The late great planet earth. Any prediction from scripture must be defined as prophecy.

[ZZstaff]

I do not recall Hal Lindsey ever stating that he is someone who predicts the future.

He is among the first individuals to understand and proclaim Biblical prophecy in our time regarding the generation that will witness the arrival of the Antichrist. Jesus spoke of this generation and told exactly when it would begin.

Although to my understanding he is not a Jew, the Israeli government called upon him to help them understand their future.

[ICPinstructor]

I don't know if I'd call Hal Lindsey a prophet, so it would be difficult to call him a false prophet. Nevertheless, Alexander did conquer Egypt, Persia (modern day Iran), Syria and the entire Persian Empire. I'm aware of his father's conquests, but it would be extremely difficult to downplay Alexander's own successful military and political campaigns. In any event, I am interested in your views about Hal Lindsey being a false prophet and why.

[JohnFrancis25]

Hal Lindsey is a well known false phrophet, why people still follow people like him ill never know. One obvious inaccuracy is when he said Alexander conquered all Greece. His father had spent 20 years doing that before Alexander took over. They merely rebelled when he became king & soon fell back in line. His father Philip had done all the hard work.

[kyproula88]

and the lingua franca at the time of jesus were aramaic!! and the apostles who travelled throughout europe came to contact with greece who at the time believed in the dodekatheon - the twelve Olympian gods. And were proselytised to Christian Orthodox -- following the original Christian dogma of the apostles, and translated the scripts to ancient greek