[Rashputin]

The ejection seat idea doesn't cut it no matter how you take scripture out of context to support it.

Sorry, but the grunts have to stay in the fight even when it goes from bad to worse. Christ called us to a cross, not to a front row seat in heaven where we watch it hit the fan.

[The Unknown Republican]

I'm not debating the merits of the Rapture or Dispensational theology. I take issue with the premise that we can create a “Heaven on Earth” without the direct intervention of Jesus. This guy makes it sound like man can do it alone...sorry buddy, but it ain't gonna happen that way.
I actually haven't fully made up my eschatological mind yet, but plenty of people much smarter than this guy would disagree with you both.

[The Unknown Republican]

And how did I exactly take the Scripture out of context? That’s right...I didn’t.

[Soothesayer9]

"The ejection seat idea doesn't cut it no matter how you take scripture out of context to support it. Sorry, but the grunts have to stay in the fight even when it goes from bad to worse. Christ called us to a cross, not to a front row seat in heaven where we watch it hit the fan."

Nicely put! I had always wondered why they believe what they believe, seeing as how God spared NO ONE in the new testament, not even his own SON from torture, humiliation and embarrassment. Most of the early followers in the first century met very violent deaths.

[caww]

Christ called us to a cross, not to a front row seat in heaven where we watch it hit the fan.

Wrong... in how you have framed this.

[Erasmus]

The ejection seat idea doesn't cut it no matter how you take scripture out of context to support it.

I always envisioned an old Hertz commercial being run backwards.

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