Rachael’s story:
I left Calvary and will probably leave Christianity forever. Calvary Chapel’s problem is it’s
toxicity in ‘end times’ eschatology. The ethnicity to which you are born is the determination for the rapture per their theology. Furthermore, statements such as ‘we are in the end times’ or that ‘these are the end times’ is considered toxic and results in poor psychological health for it’s members. Also, They have had too many people who are selling their books through the church preaching ‘sermons’ almost as though they are advertising for their own profit. One of these has an extremely ethnic attitude about who Gog and Magog is and has changed his opinion about Gog Magog several times depending on who Israel is fighting with at that time. Too orwellian although what should one expect from a fiction author-which is what some of their ‘pastors’ are.
The church also has some sort of psychosis in it’s Biblical interpretation preferring to ‘float’ the Bible as though there is not a timeline involved. Israeli archeology is very clear about timeline’s. The Bible was written starting from 600BC with a couple of writings taken from some books back to 900BC. Thus the Bronze age of Israel or Hebrew period or Patriarchal period was written at a later date than when it occurred. The Church has a terrible time with Hermeneutics refusing to accept the importance of Sumero-Babylonian, Kingdom of Yam, Egypt, and Persian contributions to the Bible-(eg the 10 commandments are from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and the Mittani aws are exemplified by the behavior of the ‘Patriarchs’-Mittani are the Indo-Iranians)
Was your CC experience similar to Rachael’s? Was there anything you considered “off” in your CC church experience?
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