The Not So Secret Rapture

reformed.org ^ | W. Fred Rice

[topcat54]

Evangelical book catalogs promote books such as Planet Earth: The Final Chapter, The Great Escape, and the Left Behind series. Bumper stickers warn us that the vehicle’s occupants may disappear at any moment. It is clear that there is a preoccupation with the idea of a secret rapture. Perhaps this has become more pronounced recently due to the expectation of a new millennium and the fears regarding potential Y2K problems. Perhaps psychologically people are especially receptive to the idea of an imminent, secret rapture at the present time. Additionally, many Christians are not aware that any other position relative to the second coming of Jesus Christ exists. Even in Reformed circles there are numerous people reading these books. Many of these people are unaware that this viewpoint conflicts with Scripture and Reformed Theology.

[metmom]

I am not a Mormon. Never have been.

[Quix]

OOOoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh

THAT'S

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO

AUTHORITATIVE, CHRISTIAN AND IMPRESSIVE!

/sarc

[Quix]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww

besss her lil ol heart!

[Steve Van Doorn]

I don't understand where is all the water going to come from if the Ice Caps don't melt if they don't buy the global warming scam?

This isn't difficult there is ice locked up at the caps during the Ice age we are now in. Either it warms up and oceans rise or glaciation and the oceans recede. This isn't difficult.

We are now in an interglacial period meaning between glaciation. The oceans if we like it not going to recede.

if you want to make money for your great great grand kids see if you can buy land in the shallow waters in the oceans near major cities.

[mas cerveza por favor]

He specifically states, in so many words, that it is “before the tribulation” and no amount of double speak on your part can change the words.

You cannot take a sentence out of context from the source. Obviously, you did not read the link to the source I previously posted. The "it" you refer to is not the rapture. "Taken to the Lord" means "participate at least in some measure in beatitude" and the "beatitude" has to do with "the highest acts of virtue that can be performed in this life." These acts are performed on earth, not in the sky or Heaven.

Before you post again, please read this thorough debunking of the pre-trib appeals to the Pseudo-Ephraem quote:

http://poweredbychrist.homestead.com/files/articles/deceiving.htm

[Quix]

He’s essentially asserting that there’s a LOT of cubic MILES of water at the equatorial bulge above mean average sea level that’s going to slosh around very destructively during a pole shift and/or other massive ‘natural’ disasters.

[Steve Van Doorn]

oh yeah in tropical climate cities.

[Quix]

Certainly true . . .

for those without eyes to see.

[Quix]

And here I assumed you knew something about

ATTACHMENT DISORDER!

My obvious error.

[1000 silverlings]

*some manual you may have stolen*

now there's a remark

[metmom]

The "RCC" or more properly the Catholic Church, has maintained an unbroken Apostolic Succession from Pope Peter I through Benedict XVI. The Church didn't leave you, you left it.

List them.

[Quix]

BTW, thanks for accusing me of stealing my DSMIV

I bought it from my UNIV/PhD program’s bookstore,

[Judith Anne]

misquote, there.

[Quix]

BTW,

My PhD program and class were involved in refining, proofing and vetting, essentially, the particulars of DSMIV before it was published.

[Judith Anne]

I made no accusation.

[1000 silverlings]

misquote? I love it. Make a post that insults, get called on it, deny a few posts later. Deny, deny, deny

*The other thing Quix does is pull psych diagnoses from some manual he may have stolen

[Judith Anne]

Even if I believed that unsupportable piece of rhetoric, I wouldn’t give a flying squirrel.

[1000 silverlings]

lol, notice the Alinsky type smear, “may have stolen”

[Judith Anne]

misquote? I love it. Make a post that insults, get called on it, deny a few posts later. Deny, deny, deny

Well, that's what I learned how to do from Quix and the Usual Suspects. That's exactly what Quix does with his "funny pictures" and content free posts.

Am I supposed to care? Should I care that you point out his tactics?

[don-o]

Yup.