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- ********0
do you believe in the rapture flaggybottom? and if so, do you actively encourage it.
- seed0
Nairn, your first comment was disturbing on many levels.
- Mimio0
Flagellum has a bumper sticker that says:
"If this car suddenly veers out of control the driver has been raptured up"
- flagellum0
I don't believe in the rapture in a pretribulation context, as a seperate secret event. Rather, I believe the Bible teaches it is the same event as the resurrection, when Christ establishes his Kingdom.
(John 5:28-29)
- ********0
The Lord is coming...
....try to look busy.
- Madelephant0
that was a good one! if a bonnaroo was an animal...do you think it would be part kangaroo...what would it look like?
- Madelephant0
well you definitely won't go to heaven after coming on a picture of baby jesus...according to some.
- Nairn0
I still had a shot at getting into heaven? Well, I'll be damned!
Yes, I will be.
- vrmbr0
*ducks
- ********0
last call for rapturehol
- ********0
revisting, nods head
- ********0
let's get this show on the road already.
- teleos0
"do you believe in the rapture flaggybottom? and if so, do you actively encourage it. " -skt
I think the notion of the rapture which is being ridiculed here is the pretribulational rapture theory that was posited and popularized by John Nelson Darby in the 19th century. I don't hold to this view and neither do most Biblically literate Christians. I believe it is based on a misunderstanding of a common metaphor in the Bible. In short, I believe that the passages of scripture that many use as prooftexts of the "rapture" are really describing either: a.) Christ's "inauguration" after having defeated sin and death thru his sacrifice and resurrection, or b.) the Second Coming which marks the end of all sin and decay on earth and the establishment of Christ's physical kingdom.
- neue75_bold0
I am the Jew of Malta...
- malta, what a dump, good you left********
- Falcon crest...neue75_bold
- malta, what a dump, good you left
- grunttt0
i think jesus should at least give all the sinners a couple of weeks to party once all of those saved folks disappear.
