Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tom@dvnspc1.dev.unisys.com (Tom Albrecht) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Iraq - Eschatology Message-ID: Date: 7 Oct 90 01:12:28 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Unisys Corporation, Devon Engineering Offices Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article mesaint@gateway (MikE SAINTcross) writes: >... even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians ... >Habakkuk 1:5-6 (The whole book of Habakkuk actually) > >... I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar." >Ezekiel 29:18-21 > > Saddam Hussien has certainly suprised the world (maybe not Israel) >with his conquest of Kuwait two months ago. Mr. Hussien has compared >himself, or aspires to be, like King Nebuchanezzar or Nimrod even, leading >the Arab world to a position of power as in the days of old (Washington Post) Can't the literalists get this straight? Nebuchanezzar was a CHALDEAN. Babylon was a CHALDEAN city. Hussien is an ARAB. Iraq is an ARAB country. Therefore, Saddam and the Iraqis cannot be the "literal" fulfillment of the passages you reference. Of course, this points out the severe flaw in the "literalist" approach to Biblical hermeneutics, and why it must be rejected as unscriptural. Literalists only take Scripture "literally" when it is convenient to do so. -- Tom Albrecht