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The kook church in Kansas that is protesting the funerals of fallen U.S. military members also derives its warped theology from the Bible only. You have to give me more credit as I'm intimately familiar with Sola Scriptura, especially as espoused by John Calvin who taught a method of exegesis that would have precluded the error of Harold Camping and the entire pretribulation rapture movement. In particular, Calvin warned against ignoring those scriptures that categorically contradicted a cherished belief. To ignore lay-of-the-land eschatology and to try to wring out of the Bible that which it doesn't support is to me a departure from the principles of Sola Scriptura. Pretrib is guilty of this. To emphasize some parts of scripture at the expense of other parts is also a departure from Sola Scriptura. The Kansas church is guilty of this. And John Calvin expressed stout opposition to both of these.

What's more disturbing than anything, Pilgrim, and something I addressed in my last post is the "escapism" at the heart of the pretribulation rapture teaching and what that says about the character of Christians today compared to those who experienced real persecution and did not seek reprieve from it.