The Rapture... Did you qualify?

[rareboy]

,mmmmkay.

So at 12 am on the 22nd, this was it. I had it pencilled in although we are planting 1000 trees tomorrow. Hedging my bets and all.

The RAPTURE!!!!!!!


I'm still here but didn't expect to slip through. But am I wrong or all the asshole fundamentalists also still wasting oxygen?

So did you get raptured up? Or are you still corporeal?

And if it didn't happen, then we are still batting 0 in 1000?

Does anyone know when the next date is?

 

[Araucaria]

So, that was 12 AM in what time zone? Or is it like New Years, where the chosen are raptured as it turns midnight in each time zone? I haven't noticed anything different, so I guess it never happened. But then again, I haven't really bothered to check up on my fundamentalist friends today, so I can't be sure.

 

[metta]

So, that was 12 AM in what time zone? Or is it like New Years, where the chosen are raptured as it turns midnight in each time zone? I haven't noticed anything different, so I guess it never happened. But then again, I haven't really bothered to check up on my fundamentalist friends today, so I can't be sure.

Israel

 

[NotHardUp1]

The parables of Jesus teach that the Father will commend the faithful at the end, but that it's not anything that a servant can boast of or assume. It is not a right or a thing demanded, as a contract might be considered.

Those making much of it presume much of their own worthiness before the Creator. The oldest copy of any Writ we have in the Judeo-Christian canon is the book of Job. It's primary teaching is the sovereignty of God, that even his most faithful and devout servant cannot presume his own righteousness. At the end of the teaching, he does vindicate Job, although he simultaneously upbraids him and challenges him to explain the mighty works of the Creation. It is indeed a wisdom teaching for those who can be wise.

Within Christianity, both the Catholics and the Calvinist orders, as a rule, refuse to "name it and claim it," in terms of righteousness. It is something aspired to, but not known, as we all have feet of clay. It behooves us to allow that even the most virtuous seeming person can be self-deceived, and not virtuous or pure.

Those who DO eagerly proclaim and predict the Rapture are indeed not Calvinists, but of the Pentecostal and Baptist orders, among others. They seem to relish the advent of the Return out of a general disability to accept the modern world, and their proscriptions' fading relevance. It's a bit of a sore loser's hope, sadly.

 

[metta]

 

[LeicsDom]

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That's a very specific time for a wank

 

[Kahaih]

That's a very specific time for a wank

The sign could have any date or time on it.

That's eternal bliss for you -- he's Our Boy of Perpetual Orgasms.

 

[Araucaria]

The parables of Jesus teach that the Father will commend the faithful at the end, but that it's not anything that a servant can boast of or assume. It is not a right or a thing demanded, as a contract might be considered.

Those making much of it presume much of their own worthiness before the Creator. The oldest copy of any Writ we have in the Judeo-Christian canon is the book of Job. It's primary teaching is the sovereignty of God, that even his most faithful and devout servant cannot presume his own righteousness. At the end of the teaching, he does vindicate Job, although he simultaneously upbraids him and challenges him to explain the mighty works of the Creation. It is indeed a wisdom teaching for those who can be wise.

Within Christianity, both the Catholics and the Calvinist orders, as a rule, refuse to "name it and claim it," in terms of righteousness. It is something aspired to, but not known, as we all have feet of clay. It behooves us to allow that even the most virtuous seeming person can be self-deceived, and not virtuous or pure.

Those who DO eagerly proclaim and predict the Rapture are indeed not Calvinists, but of the Pentecostal and Baptist orders, among others. They seem to relish the advent of the Return out of a general disability to accept the modern world, and their proscriptions' fading relevance. It's a bit of a sore loser's hope, sadly.

It is interesting that in the scriptures that advocates cite to predict the Rapture, that Jesus himself said "no one knows the day nor the hour," but people keep insisting on predicting precisely when it will happen, and become a laughing stock once the Rapture fails to happen at their appointed time.

 

[rareboy]

For real this time.

 

[rareboy]

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Excuse me?

 

[Dargelos]

A fresh bottle of poppers and you can experience the rapture any day.

 

[rareboy]