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Originally Posted by geetrue
Hey! Time is up Mr Harold Camping or else they have all gone and left us behind ...
Besides the bible plainly states that no man not even the angels in heaven know the time or the date of the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Of course the rapture is believed by many to happen right before that event, but then why warn all of his believers about the anti-christ and
everyone being given a chance to accept or reject the number 666 in order to buy or sell anything.
Testing, testing ... God is always testing our faith
More than once Jesus said that he would return just like a thief in the night:
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
---8220;Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches , and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."
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The bible doesn't teach rapture(pre-tribulation rapture). Bible scholar will tell you that too. But again the bible doesn't teach immediate life after death nor immediate judgment after death nor two judgments after death either(immediate and at the end of days).
The majority of Christianity has changed so much from the teaching of early church that the early church people would have not recognized it had they been alive.
The thing is most people are not smart enough to be critical enough. COMMON SENSE should be the ground for even any belief(be that religious one or atheism). Many of those who believe DO NOT even know the teaching of their belief EVEN when they read the bible daily. They are content with the thought they know Christianity from the lips of other people. It's much better to approach reading the bible as an honest and child like attitude so there's no preconceived ideas to pollute the understanding. It's absolutely outrageous that most Christians expect immediate life after death even when their Savior descended to the world of the dead for three days and rose not with the dead but from AMONG the dead. NOW most Christian think he can't never die and will live forever in one form or another. That's blasphemy. These people need to learn two words: Being a MORTAL and MORTALITY.
For God sake if people would live in one form or another after they died, what would there be a need for a SAVIOR in the first place? It would be just NATURE! It's outrageous to expect life after death without DIRECT intervention by the almighty God. Men don't live forever in one form or another.
Even when I know ghosts that I see rarely, death should encompass the ceasing of consciousness even to the spirit of dead people. In other words they should have been resting, waiting in the world of the dead, deprived of consciousness and not wondering around.