[Lord_Calvinus]

***Do you believe that the Lord God is incapable of “coming with clouds” and in a way so that “every eye shall see Him”????***

I deny the Dispensational version of this coming, which has turned the appearance of the Lord Jesus as the coming of space aliens from Mars or something. I deny this hyper literal reading of Scripture which manufactures clouds in space and UFO’s to try and force fit Scriptures together. That is what I don’t believe.

Oh, and I deny your false dichotomy that you setup.

Believe in whatever you want. Just don’t expect thoughtful Christians to take you seriously. And, don’t even expect thoughtful Dispensationalists to take you seriously.

[Quix]

this hyper literal reading of Scripture

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH . . .

NOW!
. . .
THE
PLAIN,
SIMPLE,
STRAIGHT-FORWARD,
CHILD-LIKE
FAITH
READING
OF
SCRIPTURE
HAS
BEEN
OBLITERATED
BY
. . .
[drum roll]
RUBBER DICTIONARY
AND THE
RUBBER BIBLE
OF THE
Contrarian Preterists
REPLACEMENTARIANS, PRE MILS, POST MILS,

HAS RENDERED THE
AUTHENTIC BIBLE
NULL, VOID, NEUTERED
DISMISSED, DERIDED,
MOCKED, RATIONALIZED AWAY,
with a brazen stance
I used to perceive
only in the JW & Mormon sects.

And the attitude seems to be that unless God and Dispy's agree, it is God and the Dispies who are the idiots.

I'm sure God is impressed and organizing a bunch of rewrites as I type. /sar

Hyper-literal, my big toe. There's nothing hyper-literal about a straight forward, child-like reading of Scripture that takes Scripture at plain, simple face value. Rationalizing any other label onto that is short of a lot of things too impolite to say. However, I expect God will be saying quite a lot about such a practice IN HIS WAYS, IN HIS TIME.