September 10, 2008
Pondering Thoughts
So right now I'm reading The Rapture: Exposed and it brings in these great questions to my mind like: Who are these people who have such a crazy view on the rapture? or better yet Why is this such a big deal that this lady feels the need to write this book? Cause I mean seriously, think about it say, for the sake of the arguement that you don't believe in the rapture of the church. Say you're standing on the ground that the Bible doesn't specifically state "and Christ will come back and take good following Christians away durning the time of tribualation." Then the "Great Tribulation" happens and you get raptured because you were a "real live" Christian and you're like "oh well guess that rapture stuff was true after all sweet!" Ok, so that's that point of view, no harm no foul. Now the person who is also the "real live" Christian but believes that there will be this rapture of the church say they're walking around and things have been going down in the world and what not and then all at once they see these huge locus that are attacking everybody (Rev. 9:3-5). This person is like "ok, well guess that rapture stuff didn't work out, but hey these locus aren't attacking me so I must be alright!" So once again no harm no foul... course there is that whole beheading thing.... I'm still working my way through this book and then I plan on going back through the "apcolypictical texts" and figuring it out from there, but I'm kinda going at it with a "does this really even matter that much" attitude, cause I mean "scarying people to Jesus" isn't ever the best way to reach anybody.... and further more we're talking 7yrs here then hell... I think hell would be a much bigger sale tactect for the scarying since it like lasts for forever......
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4 comments:
hmmm but I think the Rapture will definitly happen- God giving the non saved yet another heads up before it all goes down for eternity!! Maybe this isnt for the believer but the non believer!!
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I've definitely come to the same conclusion about the rapture - what does it matter? Plus, Revelation is one of those things that Christians still debate if it's literal or not. I used to strongly believe it was all literal, then believed it was a mixture of figurative and literal, and now I say I was not meant to understand everything. I've tried to understand John's revelation of the rapture and it's not clear to me. I don't necessarily feel like God's really pushing me to find it out (right now), either. So I'm fine just trusting God knows what he's doing and I'll just figure it out if I'm meant to. And when/if I know for sure, I'll tell people.
btw, anonymous girl=marye
Yeah, I don't really care what happens. Like you said, either way, no harm no foul.
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