Sounds like one of those really firm Day-Age Dispensationalists. The ones who believed that each "Day of Creation" represented a 1,000 year age in the history of man. Since the "7th Day" was reserved for the 1,000 year reign of Christ inn the millennial kingdom, "man" only gets a 6,000 year history.
Yep, sounds like.
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Sounds like one of those really firm Day-Age Dispensationalists. The ones who believed that each "Day of Creation" represented a 1,000 year age in the history of man. Since the "7th Day" was reserved for the 1,000 year reign of Christ inn the millennial kingdom, "man" only gets a 6,000 year history.
I found out that the ancient pagans pointed such a theory out in their "holy books" far more plainly than the bible ever did. And yet these same guys argue against Christmas since it is pagan!
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Sounds like one of those really firm Day-Age Dispensationalists. The ones who believed that each "Day of Creation" represented a 1,000 year age in the history of man. Since the "7th Day" was reserved for the 1,000 year reign of Christ inn the millennial kingdom, "man" only gets a 6,000 year history.
Bishop Haywood, S.G. Norris (Apostolic Bible Institute), and F.E. Curts (UPC Ohio Dist. Supt.) in their day taught the theory that each "day" of creation was 7000 years long. I remember talking to my wife about that some years ago and saying something like, "Well, if Jesus doesn't come and if we live for the next 30-40 years, we'll find out if they were wrong." Bishop Haywood and Bro. Curts are both dead. I'm not sure about Bro. Norris but I assume he is.
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I found out that the ancient pagans pointed such a theory out in their "holy books" far more plainly than the bible ever did. And yet these same guys argue against Christmas since it is pagan!
LOL. I remember driving down the street toward the east at sunrise on that very morning in 1988 (Can't remember the exact date, September something) and wondering what was going through the heads of the people who believed that pamphlet.
Of course, the very next year the same nimrod came out with a new pamphlet - "89 Reasons..." He confessed that he had forgotten to count the "year zero." As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a maroon... what an imbecel."
The "Year Zero" had zero months, zero weeks, zero days, zero hours and zero seconds. In other words, it never happened. But this guy wasn't happy being wrong once, he wanted to be wrong twice.
... and so it goes.
I remember the day as well, I was hoping that it would hurry up and happen so I could get out of mowing the yard.
A message preached by everyone's favorite end-time ministry guy preached around 1988 or so push Gorbachev as the antichrist. Gorby better get with it if he is going to do the beast gig, dudes getting long in the tooth.
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LOL. I remember driving down the street toward the east at sunrise on that very morning in 1988 (Can't remember the exact date, September something) and wondering what was going through the heads of the people who believed that pamphlet.
Of course, the very next year the same nimrod came out with a new pamphlet - "89 Reasons..." He confessed that he had forgotten to count the "year zero." As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a maroon... what an imbecel."
The "Year Zero" had zero months, zero weeks, zero days, zero hours and zero seconds. In other words, it never happened. But this guy wasn't happy being wrong once, he wanted to be wrong twice.
... and so it goes.
Forgot to count year zero? That would "correct" it to 1987, not 1989!
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Bishop Haywood, S.G. Norris (Apostolic Bible Institute), and F.E. Curts (UPC Ohio Dist. Supt.) in their day taught the theory that each "day" of creation was 7000 years long. I remember talking to my wife about that some years ago and saying something like, "Well, if Jesus doesn't come and if we live for the next 30-40 years, we'll find out if they were wrong." Bishop Haywood and Bro. Curts are both dead. I'm not sure about Bro. Norris but I assume he is.
Forgot to count year zero? That would "correct" it to 1987, not 1989!
Maybe it was the other way around? He made a mistake by counting the "Year Zero" the first time? I forget. It's all so very forgettable. Except when I get these panic attacks and a deep, deep remorse comes over me for having spent so many years trying to make Fundamentalism work.
Maybe it was the other way around? He made a mistake by counting the "Year Zero" the first time? I forget. It's all so very forgettable. Except when I get these panic attacks and a deep, deep remorse comes over me for having spent so many years trying to make Fundamentalism work.
I never saw a copy of 89 Reasons. Had a copy of 88 and read the first few before losing interest.
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That would "correct" it to 1987, not 1989! 
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