langoliers and left behind series

[brandon]

gonna be taking a plane ride end of the month so i figured to brush up on air travel by reading the langoliers. anyway, thought it was a hoot that one of the ten is robert jenkins, the mystery writer.

these two guys, jenkins and lahaye, co-wrote a series of stories based on revelation (from the bible). so, anyway, i guess that is where maybe this jenkins character got the idea for how the left behind series starts, w/a bunch of folk disappearing (they call it the rapture i guess) (interesting word, rapture) from all over, airplanes included.

i don't imagine i'll disappear on my plane flight, but that could happen.

Thank you for this post. I started reading this story today and when I ran across that name Robert Jenkins and also a writer, I just stared at the page trying to figure out why that name was so familiar. Sai King wrote in a pretty nifty joke with this one .

[edkemper]

Just read this story about a week ago and I didnt even realize who Robert Jenkins was. I gotta say this story was awesome, for some reason I wasnt really interested in it, but im glad I picked it up.

[davemelnick]

when I went to Alaska last year I instantly thought of SK's book: The Langoliers. Not only did I travel by plane both ways (fr/ Tallahassee, FL), but I also had a grand mal seizure in Anchorage that night. Adventure & a half at that!

[davemelnick]

I almost forgot; last year I read that The Langoliers... namely "The New People" was gotten fr/ the Sumerians or the like. I forget xactly who they were gotten fr/ though.

[smashingblouse]

Whoa, I came in here to read more about The Langoliers and found something even better, thanks to you, Dr. Fudd. You've got my mind in a whirl. I need to get back to The Bible.

[Dr. Fudd]

Whoa, I came in here to read more about The Langoliers and found something even better, thanks to you, Dr. Fudd. You've got my mind in a whirl. I need to get back to The Bible.

It warms my heart to hear this.

[smashingblouse]

It warms my heart to hear this.

Don't be too concerned about not understanding what you're reading at first. Pray for understanding and find a church that teaches the Gospel, that's what they're there for.

This helped, too. I put the Bible down several times out of confusion. Now I know I must press on.

[JohnDalglish]

This helped, too. I put the Bible down several times out of confusion. Now I know I must press on.

Hi,

Yeah, it IS cponfusing, being a collection of short stories written by many writers over a period of several thousand years, from the Sumerians to the Romans, and like all short story anthologies some are better than others.

Some are great, some are OK and some are clunkers.

But very well worth a read.

The Bible

Long days and pleasant nights

[Ghoulman]

The majority of people I talk to who believe in Jesus Christ show a flagrant disregard for eternal damnation. That's the people that believe in Jesus Christ. The people that don't believe in Him I expect to have a cavalier attitude about the lake of fire and burning for all eternity. Then there are the 39,000 different denominations that twist the original message of the bible because they don't like what it says. Some are in direct defiance of the message that is found to exist in every historical bible they've found to date.

( SNIP )

Of course, we should not forget a certain theological debate that took place in the Scottish Highlands a century or more agone:

It had been six generations agone at a Highland banquet, in the days when the unrestrained temper of the time gave way to wild orgies, during which theological discussions raged with unrestrained fury. Shamus McShamus, an embittered Calvinist, half crazed perhaps with liquor, had maintained that damnation could be achieved only by faith. Whimper McWhinus had held that damnation could be achieved also by good works. Inflamed with drink, McShamus had struck McWhinus across the temple with an oatcake and killed him. McShamus had been brought to trial. Although defended by some of the most skilled lawyers of Aucherlocherty, he had been acquitted. On the very night of his acquittal, Whangus McWhinus, the son of the murdered man, had lain in wait for Shamus McShamus, in the hollow of the Glen road where it rises to the cliff, and had shot him through the bagpipes. Since then the feud had raged with unquenched bitterness for a century and a half.

It's still a major theological question - can damnation be achieved by faith alone, or is good works also necessary?

And shooting someone through the bagpipes!!! Forsooth!!! That almost necessitates damnation!