WOULD MOTHER TERESA HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND?
It is becoming so common (this is already the third instance pointed out in this little magazine) for the evangelical community to take positions which are more akin to Romanism than Biblical Christianity. Many times they are flagrant, like the series of Evangelical-Catholic unity statements. Others are just slipped in, and probably no one notices them.
I enjoyed reading Left Behind, a novel of the earth's last days. Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins did a good job in producing a fast moving, interesting story, even though some of us could not agree entirely with their prophetic viewpoint.
The book, unfortunately, contains a little snippet which seems hardly noticeable. Maybe being what Karl Keating calls a "professional anti-Catholic" is what drew my attention to it.
On page 319 there is a clear suggestion that Mother Teresa is (or was) a Christian, since she was assumed to be among those taken. Not important, you say? Consider the fact that few Christians are as well informed as the average reader of the C.E.C. Journal.
Implying Mother Teresa was a Christian may make some Christians think that "maybe 'good' Catholics make it to Heaven." The result will be a softening of the evangelistic zeal toward their "good-living" Catholic neighbors, as well as a potentially dangerous thought that someone made it to Heaven while publicly stating devotion to Mary, the pope and the Eucharistic Species (the Host, which Mother Teresa called "Jesus")