Posted on 03/11/2006 12:30:17 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
If you'd like to be listed in the survey please post which of the above most closely describes your view - or barring that, the Freeper whose views above most closely describe yours. Or if that doesn't work, then post your view - but please, oh please, keep it brief.
And please remember this is not a thread to discuss theology or scientific theories.
You got me right.
Thanks for checking, pcottraux!
I see you're up late as well.
LOLOL! Yes, indeed. But I've worn myself out compiling this post so I'm about to call it quits. Thank you so much for bumping by.
Well thanks for doing this. g'nite.
You've got me listed well enough as can be! To expand on my previous comments slightly, my view is that "ultimate reality" or "all that there is" (or however one wants to put it) must be logically coherent. Therefore, you cannot have a "beginning" and you cannot have an "end" and you cannot have anything "beyond" and so on and so forth. In other words, in the grandest plane of existence, you could never ask a question like "What came before the Big Bang?" or "Where would you be if you stood at the edge of the universe and took one more step?"
Do you see where I'm going with that? Within the four dimensions that we are able to conceptualize a closed system is not possible. No matter how far back you unwind time there will always be a second beforehand; no matter how for down you wind up time there will always be a second afterward; and no matter how far out you go in space there will always be an inch further.
So, as I envision things, there must be a grander reality in which such paradoxes don't exist. Where everything clearly comes from something and from somewhere and there is nothing unbounded. That is inconceivable and incoherent in this universe and in the reality that we can perceive, so for that reason I conclude that there is a grander multiverse, of whatever nature that we cannot even begin to conceptualize. And so, having concluded that I see no reason why this would ever end. In fact, by definition it cannot end.
You never cease to amaze me!
Thank You
OK
Hope that was brief enough.
The Tribulation is God's judgement on the unrighteous- not on His children.
In every instance in Scripture in which God sent judgement, He first removed His people from the scene, i.e. Noah, Lot, etc.
Besides, Jesus said that the Rapture is the blessed hope and what hope is there if believers are to suffer the judgement intended for those who have chosen to reject God's Son!
Postmillennialism (with partial preterism)
Once again....unbelievably well done!
You got a bigger response to the personal quiz than the the theoligical question. I guess that is a result in itself, with the obvious interpretation that people would rather discuss themselves than religion.
I would be listed among the Preterists. I was recently asked by an eschatologist to confirm that the Book of Ezekial explains the recent close relationship between Iran and Russia (chapters 25-27 as I recall). I had no answer, read Ezekial, and still don't.
(Evangelical, married to a former Lutheran, both adult converts to Catholicism, still learning the ropes.)
But I'm still pretty sure it's all gonna end on one of those Crevo threads.
Full Disclosure: Now all we need to do is correlate this with Alamo-Girl's excellent personality type profile :-)
Cheers!
You got me right.
Looks like a heck of a lot of work. Great job again!
I don't look for things to get better, only worse. End times? Looks like it to me.
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