Posted on 01/14/2011 5:57:52 PM PST by 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.
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do you deny the Trinity like your buddy?
“sola scriptura leads you to become your own pope,”
Better each of us be our own pope than one of these guys.....
Top 10 Most Wicked Popes
http://listverse.com/2007/08/17/top-10-most-wicked-popes/
Trinity, true doctrine or false doctrine?
When did you stop beating your wife?
uh, wonder what boatbums will think about someone who denies the Trinity!!
That the “household “ spoken of in Acts 16:33 is those at least old enough to be made disciples is shown by vs. 32.
The word was spoken to him “and all those in his house” and THEN they were baptized.
Disciple first, baptism second. Unless One LFB wants to argue that speaking “the word” to a little baby was done or to one too young to understand what was being said.
As Matt. 3:8,9 shows the term “children” can mean adults, simply descendants, as well as the very young.
Disciple first, baptism second.
acknowledging the True God is compared to beating your wife, wow!
Joseph Smith would be proud....he said the church went into apostasy in the 1st century, and you agree!!
We are not the ones who abandoned God the Father, God the Holy Spirit and the Nicene Creed. How can you be Christian if you do not believe in any of these?
I didn’t know about it but should have. What a history!! Thanks.
are you willing to say if the Trinity is true or not?
The things you never learned in catechism classes, eh?
like the Trinity?
Equatorial bulge
From Wikipedia
An equatorial bulge is a bulge which a planet may have around its equator, distorting it into an oblate spheroid. The Earth has an equatorial bulge of 42.72 km (26.5 miles) due to its rotation: its diameter measured across the equatorial plane (12756.28 km, 7,927 miles) is 42.72 km more than that measured between the poles (12713.56 km, 7,900 miles).
An often-cited result of Earth’s equatorial bulge is that the highest point on Earth, measured from the center outwards, is the peak of Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, rather than Mount Everest. But since the ocean, like the Earth and the atmosphere, bulges, Chimborazo is not as high above sea level as Everest is.
The equilibrium as a balance of energies
Fixed to the vertical rod is a spring metal band. When stationary the spring metal band is circular in shape. The top of the metal band can slide along the vertical rod. When spun, the spring-metal band bulges at its equator and flattens at its poles in analogy with the Earth. Gravity tends to contract a celestial body into a perfect sphere, the shape for which all the mass is as close to the center of gravity as possible. Rotation causes a distortion from this spherical shape; a common measure of the distortion is the flattening (sometimes called ellipticity or oblateness), which can depend on a variety of factors including the size, angular velocity, density, and elasticity.
To get a feel for the type of equilibrium that is involved, imagine someone seated in a spinning swivel chair, with weights in their hands. If the person in the chair pulls the weights towards them, they are doing work and their rotational kinetic energy increases. The increase of rotation rate is so strong that at the faster rotation rate the required centripetal force is larger than with the starting rotation rate.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_bulge
You know....
You post a lot like Cronos......
Just noticing....
Ummm, ppsssttt.....
Over here.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2657209/posts?page=786#786
cult members shouldn’t pass themselves off as Christians, it all makes sense to me now.
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