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That Day will come as a trap on all the world
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 11:53 am
Can you answer the question imposed 14 pages back, in post number 3?

What effect will it have on your world view should the prophecy fail to come true?
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 11:58 am
(September 14, 2014 at 11:53 am)Chuck Wrote: Can you answer the question imposed 14 pages back, in post number 3?

What effect will it have on your world view should the prophecy fail to come true?

Is there anyone here who doesn't think the answer will be a tarted up version of "I will refract the facts through a prism of conspiracies and presuppositional interpretation until I can conclude with the statement 'I was correct, and my god definitely exists.'"?
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 12:01 pm (This post was last modified: September 14, 2014 at 12:05 pm by Anomalocaris.)
No, but I like to hear the description of his immovable insensibility in his own elegant phrasing so I can added it to my signature line.
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 12:07 pm
Personally, I can't wait for this rapture. The world will be a lot better without all the Christians pissing us all off. Not to mention, when there's finally proof over which religion is the 'real' religion, all this religious/political fighting that has been killing people for thousands of years will end.

Sadly, it won't be happening. After all, a book of mythology with a dubious record in the past isn't exactly what I would call a reliable source of information on the future.
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 1:33 pm
Quote:Personally, I can't wait for this rapture.

And even when it fails think how much fun it will be watching them trip on their dicks making excuses for why 'god' fucked them over again!
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 1:48 pm
(September 14, 2014 at 12:07 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Personally, I can't wait for this rapture.
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 2:18 pm
(September 14, 2014 at 11:06 am)professor Wrote: Good questions ( I like it).
Jenny,
Jesus told his disciples- some standing there would see the kingdom of God.
That was a prophecy of His transfiguring on the Mount with Moses and Elijah- Peter and John were the two who saw it.
Nowhere is it recorded that Jesus thought or said the end of the age would happen in his lifetime.
The apostle writing in the book of Acts, quoted Malachi about the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the last days.
We have been in the last days for 2000 years- a "Day" being equivalent to a thousand years. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years.
Don't see any point in arguing it with you because it will just degenerate into yes he did, no he didn't. But what Jesus meant by seeing the kingdom of god is far from obviously the transfiguration on the mount with Moses and Elijah. The Christians in the middle ages certainly didn't think so. Hence the myth of the wandering Jew, still alive and waiting for the second coming.

The day being equivalent to a thousand years is absurd.

What apologists will say with a straight face never ceases to amaze me.
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 2:24 pm
Nice attention-getting with this thread... 41 pages so far and counting... you've hit the jackpot...
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 2:25 pm (This post was last modified: September 14, 2014 at 2:26 pm by ShaMan.)
(September 14, 2014 at 2:18 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
(September 14, 2014 at 11:06 am)professor Wrote: A day with the Lord is as a thousand years.
The day being equivalent to a thousand years is absurd.

What apologists will say with a straight face never ceases to amaze me.
But... But... BUT!!!

The fallback manual says so...
Quote:2 Peter 3:8

"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."
(September 14, 2014 at 2:24 pm)little_monkey Wrote: Nice attention-getting with this thread... 41 pages so far and counting... you've hit the jackpot...
Perhaps for a masochist.
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RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 14, 2014 at 2:32 pm
(September 14, 2014 at 2:25 pm)ShaMan Wrote:
(September 14, 2014 at 2:24 pm)little_monkey Wrote: Nice attention-getting with this thread... 41 pages so far and counting... you've hit the jackpot...
Perhaps for a masochist.

I'm making no such assumption...Cool Shades
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