Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: Ok, if Sam The Butcher can ask, so can I: Rapture vs Christ

Except for this is for whomever is still reading my journal who is in what I term 6th and 7th generation Protestantism: Evangelicals and minor Adventist and Witness cults of various flavors. How do you justify looking forward to the end times, and sometimes even predicting dates, hours, and times; with Christ's statement that we will not know the hour or the day (and thus should *always* be ready for any eventuality)?

Christ

[rk]

with a TKO in round 7.

Mewahahaha

[FidelCatsro]

DONT BE LEFT BELLLLLLOW
Anyhow , I'm Jewish , were still waiting for the first coming ;)

Re:Mewahahaha

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Better than being like James Watt and actively working for the second....there's something really twisted in the idea that we have to use up all the oil before Christ returns....

Ok, I'll take the bait

[GeckoFood]

How do you justify looking forward to the end times,

There are two schools of thought regarding the end times - pre-tribulation rapture and post-tribulation rapture. The former mindset says we get taken up to Heaven before God pours out his wrath. The latter says that we are all going to be here for the whole thing, saved or not. Which is correct? It's a point that has been debated in theological circles for centuries, and both sides can be argued effectively. So, no one can say authoritatively which is

Re:Ok, I'll take the bait

[Krach42]

Anyone who claims to know the date and time of Christ's return is setting himself up for embarassment, plain and simple.

I feel the same way about those that assume they will be a part of the rapture. It's a bit of egotism to say that you will be a part of the rapture, the Bible says no one knows who will be taken, and specifically that those left behind will wonder what happened to those that were taken.

So, I just imagine some smug self-righteous Christian (note, this is not a crack against all Christians,

Easy

[Planesdragon]

The modern Christian, thanks to your own trinitarian-peddling "no, it is how it is and the Pope is always right even when he's wrong" Catholic Church, is quite used to dealing with paradox. How hard can it be to reconcile a prediction of the end times with Christ's words that no one will know, when we've been told for centuries that Christ both is God and is not God, and that the bread and wine they serve at church becomes blood and flesh, even though it's clearly still blood and wine.

That, and most of the

'bama borne preacherman's literal hell in earth

[vague_ascetic]

" Hell [oelgroup.com]" - - by Reverend Terry Watkins

He's a Southern Baptist best known for his Rock and Rollers are goin to hell, even Christian Rockers raving, but preaches that there is a literal hell at the center of the earth, and in this tract, even muses that the vent worms discovered in deep ocean trenches, may be human souls evolved by their eternal hellfire.

Speaking of fire though, the originalist intenttions of Puritans to Anabaptists in the Mass. Bau Colony was to burn them at the stake. It aamazes me t

Re:'bama borne preacherman's literal hell in earth

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I guess he never heard of the idea of baptising the pagan to evangelize Christianity- despite the fact that I'll bet he has quite the Sunrise Easter Service at his mega-church (thus "Christianizing" the Feast of Ishtar, a pagan goddess).