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MM, we don’t need any serious discussion on this subject.
Point well taken Rob. I feel bad now 🙁
So what are you all going to do tonight??? Your last night on earth? (don’t worry…go for it..you are all going to hell anyway.. 🙂 )
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WE HAVE A RAPTURE THREAD ON THE MAIN PAGE! GO, GABBY, GO!
i think gabby is a piece of trash for posting that. why is okay to mock some religions but not others?
*rob*
why is okay to mock certain religions (like these apolcalypse people) but not other certain religions? such a fucking double standard. posting that forum post is just trashy
*rob*
Yeah, what time is it? I have a plumber coming over tomorrow at 10. My tenant will finally be able to have a quiet toilet and now the world is ending. Don’t take away my badge bxgrl, he is coming to do other things too.
And if the world ends, say in the afternoon, it will give me time to eat a pint of Starbucks Mocha chip. And some pastries from Beny’s Delice.
It’s a load of foolishness. The New Testament clearly has Jesus saying in Matthew 24:36 “but of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father knows.” Later in verse 42, Jesus goes on to say, “for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.” There are other references throughout the New Testament, as well, all clearly stating that the day of the Second Coming cannot be figured out or predicted.
Of course that hasn’t stopped people from doing just that for the last 2000 years. It amazes me how people are so selective about what parts of the Bible they take verbatim, and what parts they chose to ignore. Most mainstream Christians, even fundamentalists, don’t believe the Rapture is coming on Saturday.
Interestingly enough, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, in their early days around the beginning of the 20th century, had several dates pinned for the Rapture. Of course, only they were going, and only a select 144,000 of them were going to get to rule in heaven with Jesus. The rest would not have a seat at the ruling table, but enjoy heaven. Their founders, who were still alive at the time, gathered the faithful on mountaintops, waiting for the moment, which never happened. Amazingly, they simply figured that they figured out the dates incorrectly, which their followers bought, and they went on to grow in numbers like wildfire. Becoming one of the 144,000 ain’t easy, and takes a lot of work, which is one reason they go door to door incessantly, and stand in the rain outside of buildings. Heaven must be earned. It’s not a gift.
“funny, it looks a lot like brooklyn.”
That’s because we are in fact in Heaven already. It’s just Manhattanites that haven’t caught on yet.
“Where does the What figure in all of this????
*Someday This War Is Gonna End*”
Re-write: *Someday This World Is Gonna End*