Did you ever watch a movie that traumatized you as a child?
I remember I had chicken pox at 7 years old and stayed home and watched the poltergeist on HBO by myself. I was so scared out of my mind, that I went outside and sat on the front steps of our house until my mother came home from work.
@sinbach 5 years old... at church. We watched "Thief in the Night" and "A Distant Thunder." Both are 70's rapture/end times movies and both cheesy. But they scared me into salvation because I didnt want my head chopped off. Thing is, we lived on a farm next to railroad tracks. So every night the house would shake and I would hear a loud 'trumpet.' I ran downstairs to make sure mom and dad were still in bed.
It's funny now, but not back then!
My eschatology has changed but people still make cheesy end times movies. And worse yet, viewers of these movies take them as scriptural!
@sinbach Like everything else in life, we have to compare to the Word.
Thank God, my fear based salvation turned to a love based salvation and now the events, people, and timing of the end times is less influential.
@Toddkapper I didn't grow up in church, so I missed out on all those "cheesy" movies, but when I was in High School I did read the LEFT BEHIND series. those really did impact the way that felt about eschatology.