[JOAT]

It amazes me that there at people who think that God would subject those who are faithful to Him to His wrath.

It amazes me that comfortable American 'christianity' thinks no hardships will ever come our way, and that we will be 'whisked away' when times get tough.

I guess the people killed in the arena for sport, impaled and lit on fire as torches and other such depravities were not genuine Christians, because God allowed them to suffer.

[CynicalBear]

>>It amazes me that comfortable American 'christianity' thinks no hardships will ever come our way, and that we will be 'whisked away' when times get tough.<<

Please show where scripture says that the hardships Christians go through is due to God's wrath.

>>I guess the people killed in the arena for sport, impaled and lit on fire as torches and other such depravities were not genuine Christians, because God allowed them to suffer.<<

Are you saying that those Christians being slaughtered were due to God's wrath?

[LambSlave]

I guess the people killed in the arena for sport, impaled and lit on fire as torches and other such depravities were not genuine Christians, because God allowed them to suffer.

Not to mention the suffering endured by ALL of the apostles after Christ's death. And the little problem that no Christian theology that included a "Rapture" was known in any denomination, creed, prayer, hymn anywhere in the world before 1830.