Pro Israel Christians Aren’t Crackpots
Written by Jim Fletcher Monday, 20 July 2009 23:37
Everywhere today in the evangelical world, there are attacks on Zionism. Many of us share the ideals of Zionism – the belief that the Jews have a right to settle in their ancestral land – and that sense of kinship has been strong for decades.
Now, there are powerful forces seeking to undermine Christian support for the Jewish state. Much of that opposition behaves as if Zionism came from the pen of Hal Lindsey 40 years ago.
It’s a common tactic. A parallel is the withering attacks some in the evangelical world make against their brothers and sisters who believe Genesis 1-11 is straightforward, accurate history. Scholars like Mark Noll allege that a belief in a “young earth” is an invention of George McCready Price and Henry M. Morris.
This is an easily refutable lie, yet it is considered gospel by center-left Christians, who can’t stand the assertion that the Bible is in fact what it claims to be. (…)