Posted on 05/21/2011 3:55:17 PM PDT by Dacula
Edited on 05/21/2011 4:11:02 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
OAKLAND, Calif. — They spent months warning the world of the apocalypse, some giving away earthly belongings or draining their savings accounts. And so they waited, vigilantly, on Saturday for the appointed hour to arrive.
When 6 p.m. came and went at various spots around the globe, and no extraordinary cataclysm occurred, Keith Bauer — who hopped in his minivan in Maryland and drove his family 3,000 miles to California for the Rapture — took it in stride. [snip]
The question is...is there any legal recourse to this obvious scam. Can the Church be sued.
I’m leaning toward, yes.
Camping shouldn’t feel bad, the Y2K and “global warming” fiascos were big flops also.
This business of some sort of *rolling rapture* didn’t make sense. If you believe in the rapture, it’s supposed to happen *in a twinkling* not over a period of a day. Even if someone believed today was the day why would they bother to get rid of things or go anywhere? At the most they would be trying to tell others and that would be it.
Exactly. You can’t rewrite the code. It’s not gaming software.
This quote never made sense to me...didn't Jesus say I and the Father are one? and when you have seen me, you have seen the father....how come one knows more than the other???
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The volcano in Iceland erupted today.
T was 6:00pm somewhere.
“didn’t Jesus say I and the Father are one?”
Yes, along with the Spirit.
“when you have seen me, you have seen the father”
Yes.
“how come one knows more than the other???”
Because while they are one, they are also separate.
I clicked Post too quick.
A good way to look at it is by looking at yourself, since we’re made in his image after all.
You have your spirit/soul, yourself, and your subconscious.
Your subconscious knows things you don’t know.
LOL that’s kind of funny....a gaming software. Some people do think it’s like that, and they think they can win the game. Or game the system somehow. Like they can outsmart God. Fat chance.
My understanding (and believe me, it’s limited, but it was explained this way to me) was that while Jesus was on earth He was limited in that He was cut off from the Father in some way because He was human (could feel pain, went thru death, etc). At THAT time, He didn’t know things like when the end would come. I assume NOW He knows.
Why would anyone go to Sodom (California) for the rapture.
I guess I can default like our govt. does?
““how come one knows more than the other???”
Because while they are one, they are also separate.”
They are one in purpose, not in personage.
As for “he who has seen the son has seen the Father” (paraphrase) that is like saying someone’s son is a “chip off the old block”. In other words, he reflects his Father’s personality.
Who are we, I got to go!
LOL! :)
If your ears where that big you might be able to hear the voice of Giod too. Or at least be elected President of the United States.
If the world was going to end today, I would have won the lottery yesterday.
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