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The Not So Secret Rapture
reformed.org ^ | W. Fred Rice

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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TOPICS: Theology
KEYWORDS: crusades; endtimes; eschatology; rapture
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To: metmom

do you deny the Trinity like your buddy?


821 posted on 01/18/2011 5:05:22 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism; boatbums; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; ...

“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/


822 posted on 01/18/2011 5:10:48 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Trinity, true doctrine or false doctrine?


823 posted on 01/18/2011 5:12:02 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism; boatbums
do you deny the Trinity like your buddy?

When did you stop beating your wife?

824 posted on 01/18/2011 5:12:06 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

uh, wonder what boatbums will think about someone who denies the Trinity!!


825 posted on 01/18/2011 5:13:21 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: metmom; one Lord one faith one baptism

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.


826 posted on 01/18/2011 5:14:49 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: metmom

acknowledging the True God is compared to beating your wife, wow!


827 posted on 01/18/2011 5:15:47 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: count-your-change

Joseph Smith would be proud....he said the church went into apostasy in the 1st century, and you agree!!


828 posted on 01/18/2011 5:17:36 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: metmom
That's because the Catholic church abandoned God.

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?

830 posted on 01/18/2011 5:20:57 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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To: metmom

I didn’t know about it but should have. What a history!! Thanks.


831 posted on 01/18/2011 5:20:58 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

are you willing to say if the Trinity is true or not?


832 posted on 01/18/2011 5:24:14 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: presently no screen name

The things you never learned in catechism classes, eh?


833 posted on 01/18/2011 5:24:40 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

like the Trinity?


835 posted on 01/18/2011 5:26:53 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: Quix

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


836 posted on 01/18/2011 5:26:55 PM PST by Joya (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house ...)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism; count-your-change; Cronos
Joseph Smith would be proud....he said the church went into apostasy in the 1st century, and you agree!!

You know....

You post a lot like Cronos......

Just noticing....

837 posted on 01/18/2011 5:27:33 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MarkBsnr

Ummm, ppsssttt.....

Over here.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2657209/posts?page=786#786


838 posted on 01/18/2011 5:29:31 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Quix

related link

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0610/nospin.html


839 posted on 01/18/2011 5:29:35 PM PST by Joya (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house ...)
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To: metmom

cult members shouldn’t pass themselves off as Christians, it all makes sense to me now.


840 posted on 01/18/2011 5:30:52 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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