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Rapture = Heresy = Too Much Caffeine
May 21st, 2011, 2:44 PM | 
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I’m not a Christian, not even remotely, but I have many Christians in my family and most of them are shaking their heads over this idiocy. I have Anglican relations who believe in “Rapture” and I have Pentecostal relations who also believe in “Rapture” The rest are Baptists and I’m not even sure what the hell they believe in but it requires a lot of dancing around and singing about how we’re all gonna burn because deep down we’re all evil anyhow..
Annnnyhow: I think that true believers are going to be seen differently after this foolishness. I’m going to play Devil’s advocate (God’s advocate? *shrugs*) and I’m going to just pretend for a few moments that I believe.. Aside from the fact that “Rapture” isn’t ever mentioned in the bible, God says we’re not supposed to be able to know when it’s coming, he’ll “come as a thief in the night” and also; don’t you think that if someone did somehow decode his words, perhaps he’d have wasted that dude anyhow? Or changed his plans so as to make the dude look like a giant ass? It’s God, c’mon now.
God asked that you not believe the silver tongued devils, the false prophets, the airbag men who claim to know his words and heart. He asks that you ignore the others, take no one before him and follow only him to your salvation. By rights that leaves out most of the clergy anyhow no matter what religion path they’re yelling about. God warns against Harold Camping and people of his kind. God warns against any ministry that profits from your belief, he warns against man’s misinterpretations of his words and he states that a true believer would just have faith in his words, in him.
Faith isn’t about what a preacher man tells you. It isn’t about a dissection in a magazine. It isn’t about a discussion on a blog. Faith is something you cannot touch, you cannot photograph, you cannot document. Faith is the simple act of believing inside of yourself that something is true, with or without proof, you just believe it to be so. Faith cannot be wrong either. It isn’t necessarily a truth but it is never wrong. Mr Camping can believe the shit out of his strange ideas but that doesn’t make them true.
God should be pretty happy today though, he’s got a brand new list of folks who don’t truly believe in him. Anyone who fell for the tales from this over the top group has defied everything God has tried to teach them with his word and deed. If anyone should be scared today, its the folks who were waiting to be Raptured on the day that Rapture never came.
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this is why those of us who are Christian and actually study the bible know it isn’t about getting out of here it’s about how we live our lives here.
My bible says the fruit of the Holy Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control. If the hate mongers and apocolypse now people decided to focus on just that passage instead of stringing together out of context passages they’d might still be ridiculed but the world would be a better place for them being here.
I am so tired of endtime prophecy preachers I could puke. That said you well know my faith is in this Christian God not His followers.
Thanks for posting this
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May 25th, 2011 at 1:06 PM
@Kathryn E, this is why real Christians rock. To be “Christlike” is not the same as today’s interpretations of Christianity. Modern organized religion is a farce but the love of God, no matter what name the Power is given, is truly admirable in my book. Gandhi had it so right in so many ways:
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
The distinction to make is not people of faith or lack thereof; there’s crackpots and there’s the rest of us. To conflate religion as part of the equation is missing the point.
But any God in which I’d believe would not choose that guy as His prophet.
However, the attention that the rest of us pay to the crackpots (myself included) is really only encouraging more of this nonsense. Eh, that’ll be good for the internet, I suppose…
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May 27th, 2011 at 1:42 AM
@Doug, there is that, and I should have clarified.. I don’t care if somebody worships an old soup can in the backyard so long as they’re not trying to control the masses with the soup can’s philosophies. In the same breath, I also couldn’t care less if a person believes in nothing but the breath in their lungs and even then, depending on your flavour of science, that could be as much a matter of opinion as any “reality” as we see it. Thanks for dropping by, you’re welcome any time!
If we’re all evil anyhow, we’ll destroy ourselves. No need to blame God for that.
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May 27th, 2011 at 1:44 AM
@X. Dell, hey I never said their big ole revivals made any sense ya know! Besides, the whole point for the Baptist existence is saving folks, conversions abound! Sometimes I might miss my family, other times I remember why I ditched