I am an avid reader of many topics. I disagree with many of the posts from the site where the authors of the Left Behind series were discussed along with the release of their new book The Rapture on 6/6/6. My daughter read the children's series. I can tell you, I have heard of these books and movies drawing people to Christ and how many parents would rather have their kids reading books like this than all the garbage being thrown at them today in movies and cartoons and books about the New Age and other vile titles and subjects that denigrate Christ and make fun of anything Christian? I for one was much happier to see my child reading the Left Behind series than to think of her switching to that godless pulp - Harry Potter.  Kids love fiction novels and you can believe the secular world is providing them with all the trash and junk out there they can throw at them, even to the point of showing them how to get involved very deeply into the occult with things like Dundgeons & Dragons and Harry Potter! Why shouldn't they be provided with Christian fiction that is clean and useful?

 

I can not understand why so many writers to that site were against the authors of this series profiting from them? When people can write smut and profit off it, why shouldn't someone who writes Christian fiction profit from the book? Why do people use one set of standards for the world, then try to switch standards when it comes to Christians? It's okay for someone to make a buck off an x-rated movie that leads people to hell, but not okay for two Christian authors to profit from a book (turned into movie) that gives a WHAT-IF account of the rapture taking place and what happens to a group of people who get left behind? No one ever tells you that the series is TRUE. Everyone knows the books are a fictional account, but based on what might happen when millions are left behind. I for one thought they were very realistic, but certainly never equated any of them with scripture and neither do the authors.

 

I read a lot of testimonies of people who got saved watching the movie "Left Behind," because they had never heard of the rapture and began searching for information about it afterwards! I think many of the posts at the site above criticizing the authors of the Left Behind series were just more of what we are seeing in secular humanism - more Christian-bashing! With the non-Christian world bashing Christians these days, we sure don't need to have Christians attacking each other.  I for one believe God has used this series along with the movie "The Passion" as a wake-up call to the world that He is coming.

 

Rene