Static on the airwaves ("the rapture"?)

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[flowerplough]

Surprising numbers believe?

Who's surprised?

Some of these idiots will be, though, come 22 May.

[aruanan]

I’m begging Harold Camping and his followers to make notarized wills irrevocably giving Free Republic all their assets as of midnight May 21, 2011.

[max americana]

In hindsight, a lot of people here would welcome the rapture or face another day of living under the obama regime.

[Longbow1969]

Some of these idiots will be, though, come 22 May.

Boneheads like this rarely learn. They are just as likely to believe the next preacher/con artist who sets a new date for the rapture.

[gunnyg]

amazing thing is that some many idiots are up tight over this and to the point of demonizing the guy for his religious beiefs...so whaT IF HIS BELIEFS DIFFER FROM OTHERS, HIS RIGHT, HIS CHOICE, HIS BUSINESS...LIVE AND LET LIVE...but many, apparently, don’t have the right stuff to get that, I’m afraid...perhaps one of the big reasons our Republic has slipped away.

Semper Nonsense!

Gunny G
aka: Dick Gaines
*****

[GreenHornet]

He believes the world is coming to an end May 21, 2011.

If he's right, it means I will win the lottery on May 20th.

[MsLady]

I really really really hate when a Christian date sets.

[jrd]

Tell you what I plan on getting up before sunrise, making coffee, and watching the sun come up next Saturday...how about you?

[Grunthor]

No man will know. It’s bunk.

[Grunthor]

Heck, I’d welcome the rapture, I just don’t believe that anyone knows when it’s going to happen.

[IamCenny]

The Rapture should occur ANY time now, we’re already years into the “birth pangs” we are so very close, Jesus is coming, praise the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, Jesus Christ will return shortly.

[excopconservative]

Maybe he was on one of those Christian dating sites?

[slumber1]

I hope many people will get saved and God will have mercy like Nineveh.......

By this statement they are giving themselves an out. When this event doesn't happen they will claim it is because enough people repented and God changed His mind.

[swatbuznik]

I want to be more like Martin Luther who threw open his window and say, “is today the day, my Lord?” I try to think every day is a potential for the return of Christ. And that’s the key, I guess, your soul must be prepared each and every day, and you must repent for your sins each and every day, which is why I don’t like charlatan pastors setting dates.

[Walkingfeather]

What does it matter what day he comes? If you are living your life in service to the king, what does it matter? Its not like He is going to come and you will miss it? Jesus even said he does not know the day nor hour, so why would we know?

[DarthVader]

This false prediction is going to finish off Camping for sure.

[aruanan]

Heck, I’d welcome the rapture, I just don’t believe that anyone knows when it’s going to happen.

Here's an interesting thing that shows why knowledge of customs and practices well-known in the time that scripture was written is indispensable in correctly interpreting it:

I was just reading NT Wright’s book about Paul. In this he was discussing the text at I Thess 4 regarding the ‘parousia’ of the Lord. He said the background for this word has no counterpart in OT scriptures but refers to the practice of a Greek or Roman emperor or king paying a state visit. Before he even enters the city the people go out of the city to meet him. Not for a meeting outside the city or to go away somewhere (ie the pretrib rapture) but to greet him and to accompany him back into the city. So the “meeting the Lord in the air” is not preparatory of being whisked away from the evil in the world but to meet him and accompany him in his triumphant return to the earth as Lord, savior, and judge.

[Mr. Mojo]

lol...I hear ya.

[Grunthor]

I don’t believe that the Protestant argument for the rapture is any more of a stretch than the Catholic argument for “purgatory.”

[Longbow1969]

amazing thing is that some many idiots are up tight over this and to the point of demonizing the guy for his religious beiefs...so whaT IF HIS BELIEFS DIFFER FROM OTHERS, HIS RIGHT, HIS CHOICE, HIS BUSINESS...LIVE AND LET LIVE...but many, apparently, don’t have the right stuff to get that, I’m afraid...perhaps one of the big reasons our Republic has slipped away.

No, he is free to believe what he wants, no one is disputing that. He's still an idiot though. No one can predict the rapture. No one knows if it is close or far. It could be next month or it could be 10,000 years from now. There is nothing wrong with pointing out stupid. If this were some African cult predicting end times everyone would be laughing at these people, but because they claim to be Christians a few folks will defend them.