Rapture Logic

[rev_marcus]

I'm tired of flaky Christianiy. The website www.wecanknow.com exemplifies the weirdness and bad logic that can come from religiosity taken to the extreme

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[swift_fox]

I don't understand it either. That's why I strayed away. The commandments are a fine set of rules for a civilized society. Christ's messages are fine guidelines to help you live a good life.

Everything else is...propaganda?

*Hugs*

You are living a Christian life that God and Christ would smile upon. Take comfort in that.

I take comfort in the knowledge that Satan won't let firefighters past the gates. *LOL's*

[rev_marcus]

Thanks for the encouragement! For me, Christianity is about relationship with God & humanity and pursuing your own spiritual path. Sometimes I get annoyed and discouraged when Christians add a bunch of man-made junk and weirdness to it.

Will you be in town Labor Day weekend? I'm going to be at a conference just south of Pittsburgh Labor Day weekend & plan on going into the City Sunday & Labor Day Monday. Maybe we could do lunch. If not, I'm hoping to see you at WPAFW.

[swift_fox]

Sil and I will be in Carlisle for a dog agility event that weekend. :(

[xolo]

"The number 722,500 is made up of two sets of identical significant numbers. Each number is intimately related to God’s salvation plan:

5 x 10 x 17 x 5 x 10 x 17 = 722,500

We'll have to assume that they don't set a lot of store by St. Augustine of Hippo, then: "The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell."

And on looking at the site, there're hours of entertaining weirdness here. I love this kind of stuff!

[rev_marcus]

I love weirdness too for weirdness sake. I'm just tired of Christian weirdness being passed off to the unsuspecting masses as God's Truth and good Bible scholarship when it's obviously neither.

[xolo]

And if the world *does* end that day, I shall be most sorely vexed, as I'll have been cheated of the opportunity see the Centennial Indianapolis Five Hundred, only a week later.

[rev_marcus]

Actually the 500 falls in the dates between the Rapture and the End of the World. Since neither of us actually believe the guy, we're obviously not *true* believers, so we won't be caught up in the Rapture & will still be here for the 500. :)

[xolo]

And since he's offering a particular interpretation of the Bible, and has followers who believe him and depend upon him to give them spiritual guidance, doesn't that make his website a church?

[xolo]

And, in case there was any doubt, I didn't vanish before getting to see the Five Hundred, so that worked out okay.