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To: rikkir
Your the one who associated Sodom with my word “party”. Not me.

Nice cherry-picking there. No, I mentioned three specifically and added the word "etc" to indicate there were more than the three mentioned. While it's true Sodomites are best known for their sodomy, Gomorrah is not known for that, Israel is not known for that, the rest ("etc") are not known for that, so it should be obvious I wasn't talking about Sodomy since I gave multiple examples, I was speaking of nations or city-states through history that refuse to watch for signs of destruction and just party on like nothing can happen to them.

I’m saved and wont be here when it goes down.

Barring death yes you will, there is no rapture. We will all be here for it, God will see who has studied to show themselves approved and who hasn't and will fall for the one that promises to remove them before the Seventh Trump.

What’s the point of worrying about it?

You're the captain of your ship, live in your la la land of escape to the clouds and call everyone nuts that watches and prepares. Pretty soon I think, we'll see who had the better strategy.

127 posted on 08/18/2015 11:35:47 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger
Ok with the party thing you say potato, I say tomato, what ever.

On to the more interesting subject, Rapture.

You don't believe in the Rapture?

Don't get me wrong, I have heard there was a fissure in the Church about this subject, but have never actually heard anyone admit they didn't believe it.

The passage I come back to is;

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

I don't believe any such thing about a land in the clouds. But you say God's plan is that all those who have been saved will have to stay around for the torture of the seven years of tribulation?

To what end? To further test saved Christians?

I don't buy it. God loves us and has made known that he wants no harm to come to His children. That if we accept his path to salvation, and live according to his Commandments, we will live eternally in paradise.

The equivalent would be the parent who forces his child to stand out side after dark in the freezing rain, after promising they could come in when the sun went down.

Would the child's faith in the parent be strengthened, or weakened?

130 posted on 08/18/2015 3:27:07 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you can't make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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