My brother has witnessed to some of his friends over and over. He finally prayed to God and asked Him to spare their lives when the rapture happens. Dan has told them, "When the rapture happens, go to my house and read everything I have in this folder." [roll eyes] They roll their eyes, but............I'll bet they run to find that folder when the rapture happens! [weird blue smiley]
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<< I'll bet they run to find that folder when the rapture happens! [weird blue smiley] >>
It cracks me up sometimes how, in their own minds, this is already such a certainty -- that there's no need to argue it, prove it, or whatever. To them it's not something they're hoping for as in, "I hope I win the lottery someday," but are dead certain about, as in, "I have already won the lottery, and so have all my true friends and family, and we're just waiting for the delivery!" Such confident hubris in the face of reason is simply mind-boggling.
~David D.G.
Noted biologist, skeptic and defender of evolution PZ Myers (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/07/praying_for_the_mushroom_cloud.php#commentsArea ) noted that:
"The Rapture Ready link is deadthe administrators yanked the thread. It must be painful to be so crazy, yet not quite so crazy that you don't notice that the rest of the world thinks you're crazy."
I had a chance to view this thread before it was pulled. Apparently it was just getting too embarrassing.
If a group of people claimed that they were waiting for a comet to take them to heaven, we would label tham as a cult. If its the "Rapture" foretelling the destruction of billions of people, whole ecologies and cultures, that's just fine.
This is why I gave up on Christianity. I just couldn't base my personal spirituality on rooting for the end of the world.
Just wish the media would expose this more.
Seriously though, what do these people tell themselves? I mean what will go through their minds when they are sick in bed in 50 or so years dying and wondering why their rapture never came? Maybe i spend too much time considering this but really how can you live your life day after day with the expectation of the rapture and it not happening...day after day?
Fun fact: The notion of a Rapture occurring before the End Times described in Revelation is never stated in the Bible.
It was a 19th century theologian named John Darby who popularized the idea, by taking a passage in one of the Letters of John that describes a rapture-like event and assuming it must take place before the Tribulation, because otherwise Christians would have to actually live through the Tribulation and that would be just too gosh darned unpleasant.
<<< They roll their eyes, but............I'll bet they run to find that folder when the rapture happens! >>>
If it ever did happen, probably. That'd be some pretty solid evidence that something weird is going on, and absent any evidence of subtle trickery or other interference, the fact that you called it would have to give some credibility to your explanation.
That said, it ain't gonna happen. Jesus said he would be back before the original disciples kicked the bucket. It's been 2000 years. Face it, you've been stood up.
<<< Truth is, no one knows when. It could be next week, or a thousand years from now. >>>
Or, a far more likely candidate: never.
Even if everything you just said were to happen just like that, it'd still be too late. The Bible also says Jesus will come "as a thief in the night," and those left behind will not know anything's different until people turn up missing en masse. So by the time they go scrambling for that folder to repent the evil, eeeevil wickedness of their ways, it'd be too late anyway.
The rapture should be a nice time. There won't be any fundies to suppress society.
I also love how the buybull says only 144,000 make it to heaven, but yet no fundie ever brings this up in terms of salvation.
"I'll bet they run to find that folder when the rapture happens! [weird blue smiley]”
Humans are really poor losers. If they go to your house after God gives then the finger, they’ll be there to burn the house down.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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