What will you do after the Rapture?

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This from "JFraud". Have you proved that Bush stole Kentucky yet?

Hey, idiot, I never claimed Bush stole Kentucky.  You're the fraud.

[??????????]

This from "JFraud". Have you proved that Bush stole Kentucky yet?

Hey, idiot, I never claimed Bush stole Kentucky.

Oh there you go! You got me just smash be to pieces!!!

BURN OMG

[Gabu]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand.

Actually, all Bibles written like the King James Version are written in Middle English; Old English is pretty darn weird, at least when put next to what it evolved into.

[Gabu]

Oh there you go! You got me just smash be to pieces!!!

BURN OMG

I see you've been reading my posts.

[J.R. Brown]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand. Why would God choose to hide messages in the scripture? Its very simple, is God the author of confusion or would God lie to us or try to hide things?

You didn't answer my question, were you raised a Christian? I would just like to add that I am glad that someone like you isn't helping me to understand the bible. The leaders at the church I've found are all very empathetic to my situation and don't look down on me like you are.

[??????????]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand. Why would God choose to hide messages in the scripture? Its very simple, is God the author of confusion or would God lie to us or try to hide things?

You didn't answer my question, were you raised a Christian? I would just like to add that I am glad that someone like you isn't helping me to understand the bible. The leaders at the church I've found are all very empathetic to my situation and don't look down on me like you are.

Yes, I was raised a Christian. And no, I am NOT looking down on you. I wish you luck in your goal of becoming a Christian and better understanding the word of God.

[Josh/Devilman88]

Hmmm...if it's just like the Left Behind books?

I guess I'll have to join all the other Catholics in scratching our heads and trying to figure out where we went wrong.

Appropriate that my post count is currently at 666...

I like the movies too, but I would be with Jesus so I will be happy.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

... flawed humans have either intentionally or unintentionally made up beliefs to fit their own agendas. For examples of that see the LDS or Jehovahs Witness.

For even more examples look at any of the myriad varieties of Pauline Christianity.  It is a shame Paul set the early church so astray.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Dont get upset JMF. We already know most protestants are pretty much absolutely wrong in their faith but you don't have to take it out on me please.

Trying to play the role of the victim again, are you?

Actually, my comments were directed at your empty rebuttal of my post when you attempting to refute something I never claimed....I never claimed there was one single antiChrist, rather I was referring to the main antiChrist having to establish his rule on earth before the Second Coming can occur.  If you want to try to refute that, then be my guest.

As to what protestants believe...your church currently holds positions concerning the Endtimes that the early church fathers considered condemnable heresy.  So, if you place such a high value on the "traditions" and opinions of the early church fathers, then why are you out of step with them?

I hold allegiance to no earthly church. The majority of them are terribly flawed in their thinking and don't even follow the bible.

Well, then I am confusing you with someone else!  LOL!  So I will just go to bed.

Peace!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand.

Yes it is. Here's a sampling. Can you translate this?

oretmecgas æfter æþelum frægn:
"Hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas,
græge syrcan ond grimhelmas,
heresceafta heap? Ic eom Hroðgares
ar ond ombiht. Ne seah ic elþeodige
þus manige men modiglicran,
Wen ic þæt ge for wlenco, nalles for wræcsiðum,
ac for higeþrymmum Hroðgar sohton."

It barely resembles Modern English at all, and is actually closer to Icelandic than another other modern language.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand.

Actually, all Bibles written like the King James Version are written in Middle English;

No, this is another misconception. They are written in Early Modern English. Middle English is the Canterbury Tales.

[12th Doctor]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand.

Actually, all Bibles written like the King James Version are written in Middle English;

No, this is another misconception. They are written in Early Modern English. Middle English is the Canterbury Tales.

In a rare turn of events:

"You are correct".

There, you can't say I never said it.

[Joe Republic]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand.

Yes it is. Here's a sampling. Can you translate this?

oretmecgas æfter æþelum frægn:
"Hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas,
græge syrcan ond grimhelmas,
heresceafta heap? Ic eom Hroðgares
ar ond ombiht. Ne seah ic elþeodige
þus manige men modiglicran,
Wen ic þæt ge for wlenco, nalles for wræcsiðum,
ac for higeþrymmum Hroðgar sohton."

It barely resembles Modern English at all, and is actually closer to Icelandic than another other modern language.

That looks like the paper on perceptual constancies I once wrote at 4 in the morning.

Anyway, if its close to any language it'll be Danish.  Which yes, is still Nordic like Iceland, so I'll stop splitting hairs...

[migrendel]

If the Rapture happens as it is described, my head will probably be impaled on a pike as the rest of my body bathes in pools of molten sulfur. I think that will be my biggest problem at that point.

[Rob]

If the Rapture happens as it is described, my head will probably be impaled on a pike as the rest of my body bathes in pools of molten sulfur. I think that will be my biggest problem at that point.

LOL

[Joe Republic]

If the Rapture happens as it is described, my head will probably be impaled on a pike as the rest of my body bathes in pools of molten sulfur. I think that will be my biggest problem at that point.

Heck, you make it sound like a week in Disneyworld.

[Bono]

bump for a classic debate

[Redefeatbush04]

If I was left behind, it would be because I wasn't a believer. I would be like: "sh**t I was wrong", I'd convert to christianity and dedicate my life to serve black jesus.

[DanielX]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand.

Yes it is. Here's a sampling. Can you translate this?

oretmecgas æfter æþelum frægn:
"Hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas,
græge syrcan ond grimhelmas,
heresceafta heap? Ic eom Hroðgares
ar ond ombiht. Ne seah ic elþeodige
þus manige men modiglicran,
Wen ic þæt ge for wlenco, nalles for wræcsiðum,
ac for higeþrymmum Hroðgar sohton."

It barely resembles Modern English at all, and is actually closer to Icelandic than another other modern language.

is that from Beowulf? I think I recognize 'Hrothgar'/ Hroðgar' from somwhere...

Edit: I did some  odd and probably wrong calculation of the start of the end times: May 23, 2006 at about 8:30 in the morning. I used a rough guesstimate of the Julian calendar (20 days off over 2000 years), and extended it over 200,000 years, and assuming the end times would start in "2001", the true start of the millenium.

If the end hasn't come that morning, I was wrong!

[TheresNoMoney]

What will you do?

Won't you be in Hell for being bisexual?

[ilikeverin]

Bono I see you are bringing up more of that Calvinist T.U.L.I.P. garbage again.

The only modern day "preacher" I can think of who advocates that crap is Fred Phelps.

The Calvinist Church advocates it.

There is no "Calvinist Church". Presbyterianism supposedly contains it, but PCUSA is a very mainline denomination that doesn't talk about it at all.

Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Seven Day Adventists, Christian Missionary Aliance (umm...) People, and other groups are all Calvinists.

Methodsits are Calvinists?
There has always been a great antagonism between Wesleyans and Calvinists, because Wesley was a great supporter of Arminism.

Wesley was largelyt inspired by Calvin. Compare their writtings. They are almost identical.

Hey, don't you go comparing my demonination to Calvinism.  Bono's theological leanings give me the heebie-jeebies (for instance, the only thing keeping him from going on a gun rampage on a store to purse the non-believers is that he doesn't know if there are any believers in teh store )

Anyway, if the Rapture does happen like 'they' say it's going to, well, then why not become a Total Mega Christian?  Their interpretation of the Bible has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, so there would be no reason not to believe what they believe

Anyway, I think people are saved primarly by works, because it seems awful unfair to be sentencing Buddhist monks to hell when they're probably a good deal more...good...than anyone who has posted in this thread.

[Everett]

Most likely hugging all the baby kittens, puppies, rabbits, squirrels, and so forth that there are presumably in the afterlife.

What will you do?

Won't you be in Hell for being bisexual?

Ever heard of something called 'forgiveness'?

[TheresNoMoney]

Ever heard of something called 'forgiveness'?

There is no forgiveness for homosexuality. At least that's what the right-wingers say.

[Everett]

Ever heard of something called 'forgiveness'?

There is no forgiveness for homosexuality. At least that's what the right-wingers say.

Quote, please?

P.S. If they are so bothersome, why do you take anything they affirm seriously?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Old English really isnt that hard to understand.

Yes it is. Here's a sampling. Can you translate this?

oretmecgas æfter æþelum frægn:
"Hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas,
græge syrcan ond grimhelmas,
heresceafta heap? Ic eom Hroðgares
ar ond ombiht. Ne seah ic elþeodige
þus manige men modiglicran,
Wen ic þæt ge for wlenco, nalles for wræcsiðum,
ac for higeþrymmum Hroðgar sohton."

It barely resembles Modern English at all, and is actually closer to Icelandic than another other modern language.

is that from Beowulf? I think I recognize 'Hrothgar'/ Hroðgar' from somwhere...

Yes. Beowulf is the only Old English writing piece that still exists in its entirety.