Guno צְבִי (08-01-2018), kudzu (08-01-2018)
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
Guno צְבִי (08-01-2018), kudzu (08-01-2018)
Guno צְבִי (08-01-2018), Minister of Truth (08-01-2018)
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
kudzu (08-01-2018)
Guno צְבִי (08-01-2018)
It was a new world or new world order if you like.. The power of the holy people (the Jews) was shattered with the destruction of the Temple. Jesus knew it would happen if they continued as they were.. There were 5 factions of Jews fighting each other and the Romans. Any astute observer could see where it was headed.
At the time the old fleshly-based Israel would be dissolved in A.D. 70... the meeting-place becomes the heavenly places in Christ – the spiritual kingdom.
Guno צְבִי (08-01-2018)
Guno צְבִי (08-02-2018), Phantasmal (08-01-2018)
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
"For the Lord himself came down from Heaven,with a loud command,and the voice of the Archangel,and the trump it call of God,and the dead in Christ will rise first.
After that we that are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them will be caught up in the clouds with them to meet the Lord in the air.And so we will be with the Lord forever."
You claim this has already happened!
Now tell me when!
and behold, there shall be an end time.......and it shall happen right after the before end times.....and it shall be followed by the after end times.........
The concept of a "rapture" has only been recently (within the last two hundred or so years) created by Dispensational theologians.
The idea of a "rapture" implies that believers would be taken away before the Second Coming. This is dirrectly in opposition to Christ comparing his return with "the days of Noah" - see Matthew 24. In the days of Noah, the unrighteous were taken away by the waters of the flood, and the righteous remained and were saved - this is in clear opposition with the teachings of a "rapture."
actually, its pretty obvious the comparison is to the unexpectedness of the second coming.....
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
PostmodernProphet (08-01-2018)
Phantasmal (08-01-2018)
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