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The card may not be worn there, but that certainly is where the biometric data is gathered from! Think retnal scan and thumbprint, then recall that the Revelation 13 passage about the mark of the beast was written in the late first century, where John had very little understanding of the technology that he was prophetically shown. It isn't a big leap in logic to presume that these biometric marks are what he was referring to. Time will tell though.

I guess you will need your gun soon , eh?

Where is your brain located?(Hint: forehead)
What are you using to type or use for most human action?(Hint:Your hands!)

Those whom the anti-Christ (or spirit thereof) has believing against Christ and has working to do evil already has the "mark." Think of it as "Think no evil, do no evil."
The more the Hal Lindseyites take this stuff hyper-litteral, the longer Christians will remain in the minority in this nation!!

Your vitriolic response reveals your heart. If that was supposed to be your Christ-like response, then you're light that is to be shining is equivalent to a tiny twilnkle bulb.

When the Bible says there will be a mountain split, I take it to mean that the mountain will be split. When it says that Jesus will return in the flesh, I interpret it to mean what it plainly teaches...that Jesus will return in the flesh. When it says that Jesus will reign on the earth while satan is bound, for one thousand years. I take it mean exactly that...not some liberal "oh Jesus is reigning in men's hearts"(If you believe that balogna, you've obviously never read Jer. 17:9). When the Bible says there will be a mark, then, then I take it for what it says...a mark...a distinguishing characteristic(to wit, a retnal scan and a thumbprint qualify). Fairly simple. We needn't make up fairytale allegories to accomidate any predisposed doctrines, or shallow belief in Him who is able to create ex nihilo. This posture is reminiscent of the Liar's first deception..."Hath God really said...". He just loves to cause us to doubt the clear Word of God. Once the process of allegorical interpretation begins, it becomes selective as to what is literal and what is allegory, leaving the Word to be comprimised by those who desire to read into the text (usually as a control mechanism), rather than allowing the text to speak plainly for itself.

If you choose to interpret the Bible in your mystical allegorical manner, you're welcome to it. The result of this is usually reducing the Omnipotent One to the tiny box that accomidates your cosmological views and leaves little room for Him to work in and through you as He desires to. Basically, walking by sight rather than faith.

...and yes...I'll keep my guns handy, thank you very much. Not that it's any of your businees! Maybe you can defend yourself with your million mom march flag.

"The more the Hal Lindseyites take this stuff hyper-litteral, the longer Christians will remain in the minority in this nation!!"

Follow the "pop-culture religion" money. "Fear sells" books and tapes, and gets the biggest audiences glued to TBN, and other religious kook outlets. The outlandish, aberrant and heretical "ministries" are the ones that rake in the biggest "luv offerins".

The [shallow-minded] "useful idiots" spoken of by Karl Marx, aka the "suckers", spoken of by Barnum, are not just "used" by power/money hungry politicians and carnival barkers, they are also fodder for the charlatans in the religion "industry".