Rapture September 2015

[Huggy Bear]

Look, I already know you guys aren't going to understand what I'm saying. If you can't understand the simple things in the scriptures there's no way you'll "get" the complex things which are only revealed through by the spirit.

The whole Bible is about Jesus Christ, cover to cover, he is represented right there in the garden of Eden, I can explain it to you but what's the point? It would be like trying to explain colors to a blind person.

The word of God always confused those who weren't part of the elect. Did not Jesus have 7,000 disciples at one time? yet when he stated "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." people thought he was crazy and left simply because they couldn't understand what he was saying.

He wasn't speaking literally, (just like the fruit in the garden wasn't literal fruit) If Jesus is the word of God made flesh as the bible states, then he was talking about partaking of the word of God, spiritual food.

'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'

Your spirit requires food just like the body, and without the word of God, you cannot have eternal life.

Yet the Catholic church takes the eating of the flesh and blood of Christ to be literal, hence why they have Transubstantiation.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

[Losty]

Huggy, must you really ruin every fun thread can't you go off and make your own "Huggy bores it up" thread or something yeeesh

[Crossless2.0]

Either way, what was the point of holding Noah to a deadline anyway? What would have happened if the bloke wasn't ready in time?

If God operated like the U.S. Department of Defense, multiple deadlines would have passed with outrageous cost overruns, Noah's stock portfolio would have soared, and it would have been found that at the time of the ark's actual delivery that there was no provision for fresh water on board and the hull lacked proper reinforcement.

So naturally Noah would be awarded the next contract.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Either way, what was the point of holding Noah to a deadline anyway? What would have happened if the bloke wasn't ready in time?

The Noah story was simply a war story told using metaphors.  It follows the basic rule of believe and obey without exception.  If Noah had failed in some detail God would have smacked him upside the head.

[Huggy Bear]

It looks like you've been getting crap from the Babylonian Talmud.

Actually, I've never read it.

[Crossless2.0]

Huggy, must you really ruin every fun thread can't you go off and make your own "Huggy bores it up" thread or something yeeesh

Perhaps you were unaware that "huggy" in Hebrew means roughly "humorless twat". Of course, there aren't vowels, so the pronunciation is only approximate. Some pronounce it with an appropriately phlegmy sound.

[The Valkyrie]

Actually the bible is all about threats and punishments, carrots and sticks, so that a few can have control over the masses..

Recent archaeological evidence even casts doubt if such a man as Jesus actually existed. So, if that is true, then he really didn't say anything.

Jesus fulfilled OT prophecies? The Jews say he didn't, and it's their book so they should know.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

It looks like you've been getting crap from the Babylonian Talmud.

Actually, I've never read it.

So far it seems as if you've never read the Bible.

[Cyberman]

Don't get it twisted, I don't put any credence in the story whatsoever. Mythology or war allegory, it's got enough plot holes to sink an ark. The best that can be said of it is that it makes more sense than the plot of Evan Almighty. But then, most things do.