OMG There are soo many people up here, looking down at the world is so strange.........humm I don't recall how it happened, must have had one to many Canadians this morning.
It's The End Of The World As We Know It
- Thread starter Asterix
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There are hundreds of thousands of Canadians who believe in the reality of the rapture, the great tribulation, the millenium, and the end of the world in a great ball of fire. Many, or most, fundamentalist or evangelical Christians hold to some version of these events as being in the future. They do not, generally, believe in predicting the exact time, but most of them believe it will be soon. Ronald Regan and GW Bush most likely believed in some such version of the future, and much of the military political establishment in the USA believes this sort of stuff. So, while the guy saying that it is happening today is considered to be a bit heretical because he is predicting the exact day, his views are really very mainstream.
It is very scary that a big chunk of the military power of the world has great numbers of its leaders that believe the world has no real future.
It is very scary that a big chunk of the military power of the world has great numbers of its leaders that believe the world has no real future.
Well boys and girls we made it. No people floating up to heavan, no people rising from their graves, no earthquakes going on. Of course the floods in the Mississippi valley still suck, but I happen to think we're complicit in that. So hallelujah. Praise to the power in the heavens to the highest. God has spared us yet again. On the other hand religion in general could be a load of crock, but that's another discussion.
God got sleepy, took a nap, and forgot. But don't worry. He's a cookin' up something.
You are conflating a number of different things.
Do mainstream Christians believe in the Second Coming of Christ - clearly Yes.
Do we have any idea when that will be - clearly No.
Am I making any special plans other than trying to live my life the best I can as the flawed person I am - No.
Do mainstream Christians believe in the Rapture, et al - No.
The Rapture and similar "stuff" is part of Dispensationalism, a mid-nineteenth century concept popularized by John Nelson Darby a wayward onetime Priest of the Church of Ireland who after "going off the rails" became one of the leading members of the Plymouth Brethren in England. While in the U.K. he was never more than a highly peculiar non-conformist dissenter. His theology became very influential among evangelical Protestant Denominations in the U.S. First through James Inglis magazine Waymarks in the Wilderness and far more importantly though Cyrus Scofield's Reference Bible of the early twentieth century (ironically published by Oxford University Press).
So what happens if he gets bored with us and decides he doesn't want to? You know how parent's kids can get.
It's them dam fuzzy numbers again.....
Perhaps our resident conservative 'fuzzy numbers expert' bottie can make some sense of their miscalculation?...:biggrin1:
You mean these conservative fundy bible thumpers are using 'fuzzy numbers' too???
Perhaps our resident conservative 'fuzzy numbers expert' bottie can make some sense of their miscalculation?...:biggrin1:
Raptor has been changed to May 23, 2011, they wanted everyone to be stuck in traffic when it hits!
If it doesn't happen then, it will be changed to Canada Day. If it doesn't hit then, they'll try again on the 4th of July!
If it doesn't happen then, it will be changed to Canada Day. If it doesn't hit then, they'll try again on the 4th of July!
